We’re proud to renew our unholy pact with Minnesota-based dark death-metal surrealists Aberration, as we announce the band’s devastating debut album “Refracture”, to be released on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide on March 22 2024.
The album’s announcement has been accompanied by an exclusive stream of the song “Interstitial Enmity” premiered by monumental metal music bastion Decibel Magazine, who in revealing the song have remarked how “it takes a couple listens to fully grasp what Aberration are doing on the track; at times, harsh feedback runs into the riffs and drums, making it feel as though the band is creating sonic illusions“ and that “throughout the album, these elements ebb and flow to be ‘dynamic’ and ‘Interstitial Enmity’ is a great example of that: brutal dissonance gives way to plodding drawn out atmosphere and ends with droning mechanical groans that morph into a chaotic hellscape.” - you can check out the premiere and the song HERE.
Refracture, the process of light deviating as passed through a medium. A similar concept explored by US necromorphed death metal disfiguration Aberration (formed by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour and Nothingness among others), who finally present their long awaited debut offering "Refracture", a mind-bending, obliterating displacement of mutated dark death metal tonnage set to permanently reshape the lineaments of experimental and underground USDM. But there is no light contemplated in Aberration's contorted audial design, only darkness, and specifically, rather than light, the self, consciousness is passed through a perceptive medium of surrealism, and is refractured into "other" self, the core concept of all abominations. Bands like Antediluvian, Portal, Hissing and Altarage are no new comers to the art of death metal defilement through the ritual of perceptive and deceptive psychic mind wars, but what Aberration have accomplished with "Refracture" defies definitions and ads an ulterior progression to the end of death metal and of music as we know it. With dissonance used as a weapon and compositional surrealism metastasized into a ravenous dissociative medium, "Refracture" tunnels through the listeners brain like a psyche-boring destructive mass, devouring conscience and ravaging synapses through the sheer force of musical absurdity. An anti-reality is achieved through its sideways-moving sprawl and its labyrinthine, shapeshifting pace, with the listener's senses and mind used as helpless hosts in which a mutant parasitism is unleashed into a form of absurd, demented and frenzied perceptive devourment.
With influences coming from surrealistic extreme metal beasts like Altarage, Portal and Impetuous Ritual, Minneapolis MN dark death metal obscurators Aberration debuted via Sentient Ruin with their self-titled 2021 debut 10" EP, an aural pact with total darkness that established them as one of the most imaginative and intimidating new entities in American underground extreme metal. No newcomers to game, Aberration formed in late 2019 with JH of Void Rot on guitar and vocals, DH of Suffering Hour on bass and vocals, AW of Nothingness on guitar, and EC of Tvaer on drums and threw the sum of their talents and influences into an obfuscating sonic glorification of total darkness and oblivion, combining death, doom, dissonant black metal and tenebrous ambient/drone to create an imposing aural hellscape of all-devouring terror.
Their surrealistic interpretation of dark abstract death metal will find its absolute triumph and sublimation with “Refracture”, the band’s debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin, be released on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide on March 22 2024 and now pre-orderable via all our channels.