PERPETUAL PARADOX Announce New EP, "May Misery Befall You"
- Jason Hesley
- 4 hours ago
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London technical metal unit PERPETUAL PARADOX will soon unleash their newest EP, May Misery Befall You.
This five-song rager pulls PERPETUAL PARADOX back towards a riff-first approach to songwriting - technical death metal with blast beats, shred and melody, without letting the technicality take center stage. After the broader sprawl of their 2025 full-length, Deathwish, the band sought to make something more focused and unified, where riffs, solos, breakdowns and stronger compositional turns feel like proper sections rather than ideas stitched together in the studio.
This is showcased in the EP's lead single, "Smell the Rot." Considered by the band to be the EP at its most frantic and technical, the song is packed with blast beats, chromatic riffing, odd chords, and the only "real shred" moment on the record. Written under a heavy Black Dahlia Murder influence, "Smell the Rot" folds bluesy, off-kilter lead work into a song about societal decay and the grim acceptance that the rot has already taken hold.
"This song is basically about humanity embracing its own collapse," comments the band. "The idea is that we’re already too far gone and you can almost smell the decay in the air before everything fully falls apart. The 'blighted lord' can be interpreted in different ways, whether that’s death, corruption or humanity itself. The line 'apostates together, but dying alone' is really important because even though society is more connected than ever, we’re still completely disconnected from each other. In a twisted way the song is almost making fun of unity, because the only time humanity truly becomes one is once we’re reduced to a pile of ash."
Watch the official music video for "Smell the Rot" at this location.
May Misery Befall You is due out on August 28 via Bleeding Art Collective.
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