(written by Islander)
“From the abyssal and blistering depths of Alabama and featuring members from Seraphic Entombment and Father Befouled, Ectovoid return with their new album In Unreality’s Coffin! An exhumation of death metal’s spectral essence and a relentless pulse of putrefaction, summoning shadows into eternal decay and entombing listeners in cavernous pummeling riffs!”
Those are among the vivid words offered by Everlasting Spew Records for Ectovoid’s third album, which the label has decided to use as a means of quickly unraveling the New Year; it’s set for release on January 9, 2026. What we have for you today is the premiere of the album’s first advance track, “Collapsing Spiritual Nebula“.
Band photographs captured live in concert at Saturn Birmingham at the band’s 15th Anniversary Show by Thomas Diasio.
Although Ectovoid released an EP in 2019 and participated in a four-way split in 2016, more than a decade has passed since their last album, Dark Abstraction, which former NCS writer Gorger gave a typically interesting and evocative review here.
Even with so much time behind them, however, Ectovoid haven’t musically reinvented themselves (they still have a taste for the bizarre in the midst of their deathly barrages), but their new music is an even more finely calculated, dynamic, and innovative method of unstringing sanity and sinking souls. Witness the song you’re about to hear.
As we say in the trade, “Collapsing Spiritual Nebula” isn’t for the faint of heart — because it will both pound your blood and savage your mind, create nightmare visions and haunt your spirit.
The riffing is filthy in tone and feral in its energies, especially feral (and fiendish) in the song’s early escapades, which veer from punk-ish beats and chords to double-bass pummeling and viciously swarming fretwork frenzies. Monstrous, echoing roars expel the words as the riffing and the rhythms continue to maniacally veer, generating images of savagely slashing blades and multitudes of carnivorous insects furiously feeding.
Ectovoid also begin to introduce more dismal moods, with writhing guitar-leads that ooze agony and hopelessness, and they double down on those feelings with episodes of slower pacing and deeper eeriness, augmented by harrowing screams.
Violent chaos also explodes; a maniacally shrieking and abysmally wailing guitar solo sounds like haunted apparitions gone mad; and after that Ectovoid give their musical kaleidoscope one more thrilling (and frightening) spin, generating sensations of insanity and violence, morbid gloom and festering decay.
Recording line-up:
C.B. – Rhythm Guitar/Lead Vocals
R.S. – Bass
C.M. – Drums
C.S. – Rhythm Guitar/Backing Vocals
Current line-up:
C.B. – Rhythm Guitar/Vocals
R.S. – Bass
S.S. – Lead Guitar/Vocals
C.M. – Drums
In Unreality’s Coffin was recorded and engineered by Alex Parra at Second Sight Sound, and it was also mixed by Alex Parra. The mastering was handled by the veteran Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio. The cover artwork is the work of the great Paulo Girardi.
Everlasting Spew will release the album in January on CD, cassette tape, and digital formats, and they expect a vinyl edition will be ready by next spring. They recommend it for fans of: Autopsy, Necrot, Incantation, and Acephalix. Pre-order opportunities should be available today.
PRE-ORDER:
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ECTOVOID:
https://www.facebook.com/ectovoid/
https://ectovoid.bandcamp.com/