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Faithful to the motto “unique and uncompromising music from the Metal Underground,” I, Voidhanger Records is pleased to present the debut album of LABYRINTHINE HEIRS, an astonishing Texan quartet that demonstrates, if proof were still needed, the ductility and expressive possibilities of the metal genre.
“All members of the band come from different metal tribes in Austin, and therefore our music is not easily categorized,” explains singer Evan Sadler, “but from the beginning the plan was to marry the sound of Touch and Go Records artists like THE JESUS LIZARD and SHELLAC with that of CELTIC FROST and VIRUS.”
Mastered by Colin Marston, and organized into deadly twisted and menacing mid-tempos, “Labyrinthine Heirs” is indeed a frightening golem that the band molds with the same clay used by THE JESUS LIZARD, HOWLS OF EBB, CELTIC FROST and VED BUENS ENDE. The surgical concatenations between Bryan Camphire’s bass and Anthony Brownlow’s drums have a hypnotic and shattering flow, constantly prodded by Samuel Kang’s guitar which covers the creature with electric innervation.
On vocals, Evan Sadler sings with the same raw power as BEHERIT and ROOT, his lyrics originally based on an amalgamation of anxieties and existential concerns with a personal interpretation of Gnosticism, the works of Jiddu Krishnamurti, and the Cloud of Unknowing. These influences converge on the idea that our words and concepts – our “fleshy tongue” – cannot fully capture or comprehend the experience of the divine. “Krishnamurti believed an overemphasis, or worship, of thought and concept was what separates and divides us, going beyond mere critiques of Religion,” Sadler explains. “I have always been attracted to black metal because of its heretical nature towards our vapid concepts of the divine, and the idea that if you sit in the darkness long enough, you are able to see what has always been in front of us.”
FFO: Ved Buens Ende, The Jesus Lizard, Howls Of Ebb, Celtic Frost
