We’re proud to announce "Synchronistic Delusions", the debut album from dark esoteric Grindcore act Egregore (not to be confused with the Canadian black metal band), to be released in early September 2023 on LP, MC and digital formats along with a full spread of merch on demand.
The destructive forthcoming long player has been teased by poignant underground metal blog Last Rites, who in premiering the track “Birth of Death” have remarked that that the track “determinately carves melody inch by inch into a veneer of sheer brutality before coating it all in an extra finishing layer of rich darkness“ - you can read the feature and check out the track HERE.
With debut full-length album "Synchronistic Delusions" Egregore takes us into ominous realms rarely explored before by, and in the genre: those of metaphysical occultism and supernatural darkness; a descent into the immaterial self and into alterante realities to transform a tradition inspired by bands like Carcass, Discharge, Convulse, Demigod, Terrorizer and Napalm Death into a destructive psychic mind-weapon. Egregore's grim and mystical amalgam of 90's death metal, crust, and grind aims to use the timeless lesson cemented chiefly by Carcass's "Heartwork" and "Necroticism" albums to disintegrate the corporeal self, transfigure the soul and open the listener's third eye unto a superior reality dominated by obscure forces, invisible powers, and higher truths. A passageway album using sonic destruction as a key to dimensions above and beyond the self, "Synchronistic Delusions" continues the band's explorative synthesis into the unknown, bridging 90's death metal and grind, black metal, crust punk and esoteric projections derived from jungian philosophy, occultism, supernatural theology and paranormal cabalism to destroy reality and liberate the mind from its carnal prison.
Egregore is an extreme metal vibration created in 2020 in Ogden, Utah, by multi-instrumentalist solo artist M.A.E. handling all instruments and recordings duties on all his releases by himself. The solo project first emerged in April 2020 with the release of the 1st demo, “Ritual Consciousness”, on Astral Tulpa Records, a blinding obfuscation of blackened death-grind terror that immediately set the tone of the sheer force and vision of the project. The debut demo was soon followed in by the 2nd demo, “Dysthymic Gloom”, also released on Astral Tulpa Records in August 2020, which was an unmistakable step up from its predecessor in production quality and execution, further confirming the project’s bleak and perfectly executed vision. Musically and sonically, Egregore is influenced by a variety of bands in the realms of death metal, black metal, crust/d-beat, grindcore, and beyond. A few of M.A.E.’s personal influences appearing through the project are Carcass, Darkthrone, Repulsion, Nihilist, Entombed, Sepultura, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Thin Lizzy, Discharge, Bolt Thrower, and Convulse, a broad spectrum of influences which has resulted in a devastating and exceptionally articulate sound. A great deal of importance is given to lyrical content and the project’s themes and symbolism. In Egregore M.A.E. focuses his creativity on the occult, mystical experiences, unexplained phenomena, metaphysics, and other strange encounters and philosophical phenomena permeating the unknown. The project’s name itself is also profoundly mystical and occult, and M.A.E will only provide you with the dictionary definition and will let the reader/listener determine what it means to their own chemically induced hallucinated, subjective human experience: “Egregore” (also Egregor) is an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The breadth of all these concepts, influences, themes and experiences in self-producing and self-recording as a solo artist, soon paved the way to the devastating debut full-length album Synchronistic Delusions", a fully accomplished and perfectly executed long player envisioned by M.A.E. and released in late 2023 by Sentient Ruin worldwide.
"Synchronistic Delusions" is slated for a September 1 2023 release on LP, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin along with a full spread of merch on demand.