(written by Islander)
“WE’RE LIVING IN A WORLD OF LIES!” That’s part of what Nuclear Tomb vocalist/guitarist Michael Brown yells at the top of his lungs in the song we’re about to premiere, and no one with a thimbleful of brain could argue with him.
To underline the point, the song’s accompanying video flashes images of many liars in positions of government authority, along with clips of rioting, police brutality, and soldiers sent off by the liars to be maimed and die (those clips are old but of course that’s happening again right now in the Middle East).
It’s a pissed-off song, and not just because of the words. It’s also a head-spinning song — and at times a very bleak one as well. Its name is “Falling Out of World of Lies“, and it’s from this Baltimore band’s new album Epoch Inhumane, which will be released in June by Rotted Life.
photo by Travis Stone
If you’re not familiar with Nuclear Tomb, Rotted Life points the way with comparative references to the likes of Voivod, Pestilence, Coroner, and Atheist. Those influences are displayed in this new song, but only after a slow overture that uses a dismally wailing and moaning melody to establish the bleakness of the song’s changing themes. It’s when the music starts raging that those more head-spinning ingredients burst out.
With a big rumbling drum progression paving the way, the fretwork starts darting and dazzling, thrashing and slashing, squealing and squirming, backed by nimble bass notes and neck-cracking drum progressions and fronted by savage vocal vitriol.
Yet the music again slows and issues peals of dismal dissonance, along with a desperately squalling guitar and momentous drum-blows, reminding us that we do indeed live in an inhumane epoch, before the music contorts in even more frantically bizarre convulsions.
NUCLEAR TOMB is:
Michael Brown – Guitar/Vocals
Matt Ibach – Guitar
Amelia Morris – Bass
JD Lookabill – Drums
Rotted Life reports:
With Epoch Inhumane, Nuclear Tomb are looking to up the ante: faster speeds, deeper hooks, and even more dynamic twists than their fans have already come to expect. Songs that fearlessly rip and tear through warped tales of real-world society’s impending collapse. Be prepared for the horror… Mind Thrashing Sonic Nightmares.
Epoch Inhumane was engineered and mixed by Matt Michel at Viva Studio VA, and it was mastered by the masterful Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. It features additional lead guitar by Demir Soyer and album art by Brad Moore.
Epoch Inhumane will be out on LP/CD/Cassette/Digital on June 12th. For more info, check the links below.
ROTTED LIFE:
https://www.rottedlife.com/
https://rottedlife.bandcamp.com/
NUCLEAR TOMB:
https://nucleartomb1.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NuclearTombLives
https://www.instagram.com/nucleartomblives