SUMMONING THE LICH has today shared a new lyric video for The Carrion Fleet, taken from their recently released sophomore album, Under the Reviled Throne. The Carrion Fleet thematically serves as a perilous turning point on the St. Louis, MO band’s latest full-length, which is set in the fictional fantasy universe of the Kingdom of Arrias, where SUMMONING THE LICH‘s malevolent mage brings war to the city of Bastell.
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR THE CARRION FLEET BELOW.
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Speaking on the track release, David Bruno (vocals) comments: “This song is a personal favorite and one of the darker songs we’ve ever written both thematically and melodically. The city of Bastell burns as the Lich and the vile creatures that follow him lay waste to all leading to the shore. This is where the album shifts as hope truly begins to dwindle for all who wish to oppose the madness of the Lich, and we worked to reflect that with the ominous brooding tone of The Carrion Fleet. Also a bunch of ships half made of mangled corpses held together by magick sounds sick and heavy.”
After three years of extensive US touring and shows with the likes of Allageon, Gorod and Inferi among others, as well as headline stints, SUMMONING THE LICH set about bringing Under the Reviled Throne to life. Intended as a death metal equivalent to The Empire Strikes Back in scope, the group set their sights on raising the stakes in both story and songwriting.
SUMMONING THE LICH took the considered approach of eschewing superfluous technicality in favor of a leaner and more streamlined focus on song structure. Each of the tracks on Under the Reviled Throne were written with the purpose of guiding the listener through the eponymous Lich’s descent into misanthropy and tyranny, without sacrificing their idiosyncratic sound.
This balancing act of dexterity and structure is exemplified best on cuts like Return to the Soil and lead single, My Horrors Unending. The latter of which succinctly merges SUMMONING THE LICH’s inclination for extremity and stop and start dynamics with rhythmic pummelling and memorable hooks.
With Arrias under existential threat, Under the Reviled Throne is a dazzlingly ambitious tale of hope and resistance in the form of its protagonist Taane (introduced on previously released album track, The Forest Feasts). Elsewhere, The Carrion Fleet’s narrative of the city of Bastell succumbing to flames at the hands of the Lich’s army ushers in the ominously brooding
Upping the stakes to dizzying heights, SUMMONING THE LICH offers plenty in the way of light among the shadowy figures that lurk within the Lich’s universe of malevolent chaos. All is not lost.