GRAVEBORN Launch Playthrough Video for Title Track off of "Metempsychosis"
- Jason Hesley
- Mar 3
- 2 min read
Boston-based progressive death metal band GRAVEBORN have posted a playthrough video of the title track off their upcoming fifth full-length album Metempsychosis.
The video features guitarist Chris Ramusiewicz shredding through his parts on "Metempsychosis." Watch now at this location.
Vocalist John Leblanc comments on the song, which he calls the "core statement of the album."
It’s the track where everything shifts from what is happening to me to what is happening through me.
Metempsychosis is not a cute spiritual idea here. It’s a brutal, continuous process. The soul persists across lifetimes, but not in a sentimental way. It persists through reconstruction, through collapse, through the repeated loss of form. It’s endurance through transformation.
A key layer for me is this. Ideas move the way souls move. They don’t just appear. They transfer. They are inherited. They go dormant. They reawaken. They show up inside someone like a realization, but they may have been traveling through bloodlines, culture, trauma, resilience, and repetition for generations.
This is not passive. It’s evolutionary. Each cycle reshapes what it carries forward. The self is not a fixed object. It’s a changing vessel. The essential nature persists, but the expression changes, sometimes violently.
The chorus fragments because language breaks at the edge of this understanding. The more I try to explain it, the less accurate it becomes. What remains is recognition. Ego fades. Boundaries dissolve. Self becomes pattern. Awareness becomes primary.
This song means: I’m not the origin of who I am. I’m part of a continuum. My life is not a standalone story. It’s one iteration in a larger transmission.
Metempsychosis is due out April 3. Pre-order the album at gravebornma.bandcamp.com.
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