EVOKEN: First Ever Video From American Death/Funeral Doom Ambassadors Now Playing
Evoken - Photo by Eva Tusquets
EVOKEN: First Ever Video From American Death/Funeral Doom Ambassadors Now Playing; Mendacium Full-Length Nears Its October 17th Release On Profound Lore Records
Watch EVOKEN’s “None” video HERE.
“None” is the latest single from American death/funeral doom outfit EVOKEN. The track, which comes accompanied by the band’s first ever video, appears on their impending new full-length, Mendacium, set for release on October 17th on Profound Lore Records.
Mendacium tells the tale of a fourteenth-century elderly Benedictine monk whose illness prevents him from leaving his cell in the monastery. His faith and service to God can never be satiated. Slowly declining in health and sleepless from continuous pain, the monk encounters a hideous entity emerging through a tear in reality. The story questions, “is the torment of this monk by each passing hour being inflicted by this entity or is it all within his own mind?”
“‘None' invokes a monk's inner torment,” notes drummer Vince Verkay, “It’s a cinematic descent between faith and desire.”
Watch EVOKEN’s video for “None,” which was directed, produced, and edited by Eva Tusquets, at THIS LOCATION.
Stream EVOKEN’s previously released single, “Matins,” HERE.
Mendacium is a work that will reveal itself as one of the darkest and most oppressive EVOKEN albums among their unparalleled discography. Where 2018’s Hypnagogia would see the band capture and focus on a more melancholic, tangible, and even more of an accessible sonic design, Mendacium takes that acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like dread and woeful catacombic and disharmonious heaviness reminiscent of the band’s Quietus and Antithesis Of Light masterworks, all while still encapsulating the tectonic shifting nature of their Caress Of The Void and Atra Mors releases and venturing more through classic gothic audial textures and even treading a little down experimental mire as well, reminiscing an aura seeping from such luminary artists as Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment.
Mendacium, which comes adorned in the cover art of Worthless, was produced by Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal who worked with EVOKEN on their Antithesis Of Light and Quietus albums respectively and serves as EVOKEN’s most powerful sounding album to date.
Mendacium will be released on CD, LP and digital formats.
Find preorders at THIS LOCATION.
Mendacium Track Listing:
1. Matins
2. Lauds
3. Prime
4. Terce
5. Sext
6. None
7. Vesper
8. Compline
"The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine." – George Sand
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