Sentient Ruin is proud to work again with Minnesota death-doom titans VOID ROT as we ready the impending release of their colossal debut LP “Descending Pillars” in collaboration once again with Everlasting Spew Records on September 3 2020.
Recorded and mixed by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording, mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studios and featuring cover artwork by Timo Ketola (Deathspell Omega, Dead Congregation) and additional artwork by Misanthropic Art (Diabolic Oath, Malthusian, Convocation, Maryland Deathfest and more), “Descending Pillars” consecrates Void Rot as one of America’s most promising and definitive new death-doom bands.
Boasting a colossal sound, "Descending Pillars", is an imposing sonic monolith of obsidian slow death metal and dismal atmospherics that encases the listener into a monstrous sarcophagus of sound. In its immense forty minutes the album conjures visions of otherworldly finality and of absurd forms of death and demise taking shape at the edge of a formless and implacable dark cosmos. With influences ranging from Grave, to Disembowelment, Incantation and Bolt Thrower, on "Descending Pillars" the Minnesota quartet re-establishes itself as visionary new act with an unparalleled sound and aesthetic of dismally towering proportions, cementing their reputation as one of contemporary death-doom's most promising and visionary prospects along the ranks of entities like Krypts, Spectral Voice, and Vastum.
You can now whiteness two immense tracks taken from the album - the opening title track and track # 3 “Liminal Forms“ - over at our Bandcamp. In premiering the latter song, Toilet Ov Hell elaborated that “Void Rot’s dense oppressive cosmic-churn has been amplified in every facet of their music.” - you can check out their feature HERE.
Hailing from Minneapolis MN, Void Rot began their journey devoted to constructing massive and soul-consuming dirges of monstrous death-doom around 2017, mainly influenced by the glorious progenitors of majestic, atmospheric, and slow moving death metal like Winter, Rippikoulu, Disembowelment, early Paradise Lost, Incantation, etc. Within their imposing early compositions Void Rot weaved light and darkness seamlessly and with unseen mastery, releasing ample premonitions of the immensity to come and evoking atmospheres of unparalleled vastness that alternated majestically between sidereal and contemplative psychedelia, and visceral and bludgeoning heaviness. Their towering debut EP Consumed by Oblivion released in 2018 by Sentient Ruin and Everlasting Spew featured artwork by surreal darkness luminary Stephen Wilson and was an iconic and proud example of true American death-doom as seen at its finest hour, masterfully distilling the void of space and the loneliness of the cosmos and bending them to collide with the crushing misery of our earthly reality. The end result: a seismic monolith of spine-breaking riffs and warped atmospheres that while glorifying death-doom's most distintive traits also elevated the genere to an entire new level. With “Descending Pillars” their otherworldly spell is cast again, ascending to apocalyptic proportions and consecrating Void Rot as absolutely protagonists in the finest hour of contemporary American death-doom.