Recent Prosthetic Records signees, THE DAY OF THE BEAST have today shared Black Forms Materialize – the second single to be taken from their upcoming fourth album, Indisputably Carnivorous, due out on June 18. The blackened death metal band have also shared an accompanying lyric video for the track, with the visual showcasing their horror fiction influences.
Listen to Black Forms Materialize via Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.
Pre-order Indisputably Carnivorous here.
Speaking on the single release, the band comments: “Black Forms Materialize is lyrically themed around episodes of sleep paralysis. The music was actually written before our last album was released, so it’s been in our arsenal for a while. It’s a relatively mid-paced, aggressive track with lots chunky riffs and a few blastbeat sections for good measure.”
Dripping with pure aggression and channelling evil through all inputs, Indisputably Carnivorous is the soundtrack to every raging nightmare brought to life. Shining a light on the darkest, filthiest corners of the human psyche by way of apocalyptic, horror-inspired storytelling – THE DAY OF THE BEAST have created a monster. Each track revolves around its own specific tale or theme, with inspiration coming from the likes of Clive Barker, Bram Stoker, and Lovecraft. The album name is taken from the Graham Masterson novel The Wells of Hell, and the title track is primarily based on that book.
Recorded August – October 2020, in Hampton Roads, Virginia with the band overseeing all elements of recording the meat of the album themselves, they then enlisted Tony Petrocelly of Trepan Studios to track vocals. The album was mixed and mastered by Zach Ohren at Castle Ultimate Studios. Taking control of production themselves allowed the band – which features Steve Redmond from fellow Prosthetic signees, Foretoken – to set their own pace – they took the time to look back over past output, cherry-picking the elements they rated the most and bringing them together in one cohesive rager of an album. The result is a whiplash inducing thrash-via-death metal record; celebrating the legacy of the genre whilst adding their own indisputably blood-thirsty, indisputably abominable, indisputably carnivorous spin on it.
Indisputably Carnivorous is due for release via Prosthetic Records on June 18, 2021.
Watch the lyric videos for Indisputably Carnivorous so far: