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Today, Signal Rex announces December 21st as the international release date for Absolute Key's highly anticipated fifth album, The Third Level of Decay, on CD and vinyl LP formats.

Absolute Key is another, magickal work of Antti Klemi, vocalist/lyricist for the ever-singular Circle of Ouroborus and editor of the esteemed Kaleidoscope zine. While one could make faint comparisons here to Circle of Ouroborus, Absolute Key is very much its own entity, and has proven as much over their feverish discography the last three years.

As Klemi explains, "The name of the album refers to a vision I had in a dream. There were three levels of death – the physical one, the spiritual one, and then the final death where even death is dissolved. No memories, no grieving, no other sides. Just nothing."

Absolute Key are just as challenging musically as they are lyrically. "Musically, this album sprung from an idea of totally bleak and monotonous industrial/black metal hybrid, driven by simple, repetitive drumbeats and cold synth/guitar riffs," Klemi explains. "With time, these songs took many twists and turns, layers were laden one after another, and the labyrinth grew more complex and serpentine. So, The Third Level of Decay is play between two elements – blunt, primitive, and 'physical' core and spectral, unconscious, and 'spiritual' details. And that third level, death of deaths, humming over this all."

To celebrate the release of The Third Level of Decay, Absolute Key will be making its live debut at this year's Invicta Requiem Mass festival, curated as always by Signal Rex. Drown in layers of sonic defiance!

Begin drowning with the brand-new track "A Hidden Angle" HERE at Absolute Key's Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Absolute Key's The Third Level of Decay

1. A Hidden Angle

2. A Wrecked Spine

3. Closer, Further

4. Flakes of Ash

5. The Cellar Door

6. The Third Level of Decay