“Blood Of Nessus” is the new single from New Orleans, Louisiana-based death thrash trio HERAKLEION. Now playing at Decibel Magazine, the track comes by way of the band’s Necroverse EP, set for release on September 13th!
Necroverse is an entirely analog production overseen by producer Pete deBoer (Blood Incantation, Devil Master, Spectral Voice). For six days in October of 2023, deBoer tracked the band live at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, Texas, like it was 1989. The recording was done on an API Legacy Plus, a Studer 24-track tape machine, and a full complement of analog outboard gear. Notes drummer Speed Wilson, “The goal was to make a recording that sounds closer to what’s in our record collections, than to what records sound like now.”
The results achieve what the band intended. Necroverse spews forth five tracks of living, seething death thrash that serves as the listener’s vessel from the world of mortality into the realm of the dead. It is wholly out-of-step with the current trends in metal. Thematically, these songs don't focus specifically on death, but more so on the morbid curiosity that humanity has with the moment where one crosses over into the realm of death. Each song touches on a different instance that attempts to rationalize that moment where life ceases and the journey through the realm of death begins.
Writes Decibel, “This release offers a raw, unfiltered slab of metal that defies modern conventions, embracing the analog spirit of the past.”
Elaborates Wilson on the band’s latest single, “‘Blood Of Nessus’ was the final thought for what came to be Necroverse. It was the last song completed for the record and solidified the sonic direction and lyrical journey of the EP as a whole.”
Adds guitarist/vocalist, Apollo Xydias, “The song encapsulates the tragic tale of a demigod’s fall from immortality.”
Stream HERAKLEION’s “Blood Of Nessus” at Decibel Magazine HERE.
Watch HERAKLEION’s video for “The Tomb” HERE.
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