Artist .........: Blood Monolith
Title ..........: The Calling Of Fire
Genre ..........: Death Metal
Subgenre .......: Death Metal
Label ..........: Profound Lore
Language .......: English
Year ...........: 2025
Street Date ....: 05.16.2025
Source .........: WEB (FLAC)
Bit Depth ......: 16 Bit
Sample Rate ....: 44.1 kHz
Mode ...........: Stereo
Size ...........: 224.73 MB
Tracks .........: 08
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Url: https://bloodmonolith.bandcamp.com/
Track List:
01.Trepanation Worm 03:17
02.The Owl In Daylight 03:50
03.Prayer To Crom 03:23
04.Viscera Vobiscum 03:06
05.Apparatus 03:09
06.Cleansing 02:45
07.Slaughter Garden 03:26
08.Pyroklesis 04:43
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BLOOD MONOLITH is an emerging death metal juggernaut featuring members
of Nails, Undeath, Ulthar, and Genocide Pact. Formed by
guitarist/vocalist Shelby Lermo (Nails, Ulthar) in 2023 after his exit
from Vastum, the goal was to create something even uglier, weirder, and
more aggressive operating out of his new home base in the Washington
DC/Northern Virginia area. Guitarist Tommy Wall (Undeath) joined Lermo,
and the music for BLOOD MONOLITH's debut LP was soon written. Bassist
Nolan (Genocide Pact, Shitstorm) and drummer Aidan Tydings-Lynch
(Deliriant Nerve, Brain Tourniquet) rounded out the lineup.
The band's location ties deeply into their sound, as this epicenter of
mass murder and corruption provides constant fuel for boiled-down anger
(as well as a rich history of rebellion through music). The album's
title, The Calling of Fire, invokes the internal and external summoning
of rage to spit in the face of that seemingly unstoppable, towering
evil, and the sonic excess within lands like a broad-daylight
assassination.
BLOOD MONOLITH's unique and unconventional concept and aesthetic sets
them apart from the plethora of interchangeable death metal bands
currently inhabiting the scene, and their music is miles beyond them as
well. There is a DIY mindset and ethic present, but despite the punk
and grindcore pedigree of its members, BLOOD MONOLITH plays crazed
death metal of the highest order, influenced as much by classics like
Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse as modern innovators like Defeated
Sanity and Dead Congregation. Adorned with cover art by legendary
Rudimentary Peni frontman Nick Blinko, The Calling of Fire is a
testament to all things musically frenzied and extreme, a brutally
succinct statement of nihilism in a world beyond salvation.
Cover art: Black Eyed Baby (1980) by Nick Blinko.
Used courtesy of the artist and The Henry Boxer Gallery, London.
Engineered by Shelby Lermo at Buzz Dungeon in Alexandria, VA
and Matt Michel at Viva Studio in Fairfax, VA Summer and Fall 2024.
Mixed by Matt Michel.
Mastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone, Minneapolis, MN.
Photo by Melissa Petisa.
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