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Artist......: Barren Canyon
Album.......: A Virulent Steam
Year........: 2026
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Avantgarde Music
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 1529kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 5 tracks
Playtime....: 00:35:01
Size........: 383.7 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-07-12
S.Date......: 2026-05-22
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ucy2fcw2t7h1p
01. Rift 6:54
02. Miasmic Lull 7:16
03. Vitiated Atmosphere 4:47
04. Effluvial Pools 6:54
05. The Plague Cloud 9:11
Barren Canyon, the reclusive Canadian act formed by the
mysterious duo of multi-instrumentalists Maikan and
Absent, re-emerge with A Virulent Steam, their second
release for Avantgarde Music after eight years of
silence. Whereas 2018's World of Wounds contrasted
bursts of metal with cold ambient passages, Barren
Canyon now return transformed, melding their influences
into a tempered miasmic haze. Warmer synth tones drift
and swell like a toxic fog, diffusing into harsher
textures.
Taking the idea of "atmospheric metal" seriously and
literally, A Virulent Stream draws both musically and
lyrically upon themes of noxious air, suffocation, and
the airborne contaminants of industrial society. The
very cover picture is a statement in itself, as the band
chose "Smoke from the continuously operating steel
plants gives Birmingham its
spectacular nighttime red-orange glow" by Leroy Woodson
to visually introduce their opus.
"All founders and smelters of brass or copper observe a
virulent steam to arise, which entering the lungs with
the breath, introduces its seminal impressions,
occasioning inflammations and a tendency to malign
eruptions and the plague sores called pox." - "A New
Digester of Fevers" by John Cotta (1612)