No Clean Singing is currently streaming “Senescent,” the latest single from progressive death metal trio, VILE RITES. The track comes off the band’s full-length debut, Senescence, set for release on August 16th via Carbonized Records.
VILE RITES uses a hypnotic amalgamation of aggressive riffing, swirling rhythms, wide dynamic range, and dark psychedelic ambience to take the listener on a cerebral journey into the esoteric. Drawing inspiration from events in nature, VILE RITES creates a visceral and kaleidoscopic experience that feels like wandering alone in the forest at night.
Senescence is a forty-minute journey of mind-bending psychedelic death metal that takes its listeners through ever ything from cavernous darkness to soaring ethereal ecstasy with surprises around every corner.
Writes No Clean Singing in part, “Justyna Koziczak created a truly stunning piece of artwork for the cover of the debut album by the California-based progressive death metal band VILE RITES. It also reveals the inspirational source of the album’s name -- Senescence -- and it creates a connection to the album track we’re premiering today -- ‘Senescent.’
"Immediately, the music eccentrically throbs and whirls, indeed like writhing tentacles, and quickly becomes more frantic in its swirling contortions. But you’ll soon be reminded that this is a death metal song, as the drums viciously chop and ruthlessly hammer, and as the words spill forth in monstrous growls. If you feel your head beginning to spin already, be ready for it to spin even more extravagantly. The music starts, stops, and changes its tempo with abandon. The guitars swivel as well, seeming to dismally moan and feverishly skitter, to convulse in seizures of circle-saw violence, to dart like menaced but very colorful fish, to blare like dissonant sirens, and to ring like mysterious and mesmerizing chimes — and the song’s exhilarating guitar solos might be the most head-spinning spectacles of them all…”
Adds guitarist/vocalist, Alex Miletich, “The inspiration for ‘Senescent,’ as well as the general theme of the album, came from the life cycle of the octopus. For those that might not know, octopuses are born with no parental guidance -- that we understand at least -- and are forced to wander the waters alone. Once they are mature and find a mate, the female will lay her eggs and stay with them protecting and caring for them until they hatch, starving herself and ultimately dying in the process of creating new life. Not only is this a profound symbol for the sacrifices that mothers make to create new life, but for the endless cycle of death and rebirth in general. We are born into the world with nothing but a vessel, and we only leave behind the legacy of what we’ve created.”
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