COMPRESS prezentują numer z debiutanckiego mini

 

Today, New England black metallers Compress premiere the new track "Formosus" at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. The track is the second to be revealed from the band's highly anticipated debut mini-album, The Final Level of Consciousness, set for international release on March 15th via Eternal Death on cassette tape format. Hear Compress' "Formosus" in its entirety exclusively HERE.

Compress hail from Massachusetts, and formed in 2022. Later on that year, they released their debut demo, evincing a crustier, almost-blackened hardcore-punk sound. Nevertheless, Compress' roots always laid in black metal, and a strive for a purer but no-less-gutted direction began in earnest. Connor Dooley (Morgirion, Lustrum, Misanthropos) eventually joined on vocals, and work began on the band's debut mini-album.

At last here, Compress' The Final Level of Consciousness crushes forward with the weight of a colossus. Marrying the heft of their debut album - grimy, gutted guitars and drums hit HARD no matter the tempo - with a more pronounced emphasis on atmosphere, Compress' debut mini moves both above and below: straightforward physicality waging war against headier throughlines. In that sense, their moniker is absolutely fitting; deeper listens reveal a respectable / respectful integration of first-wave riffing (and headbanging) that gets twisted and gnarled in unique ways, all without betraying the ethics of black metal. Dooley's vocals alternately howl against the storm and succumb to its sheer force, rising above as well as melding into their molten CRUSH.

Those who claim that black metal is far too often lacking in palpable "heaviness" are encouraged to submit to the onslaught of The Final Level of Consciousness. Compress will perform a tape-release gig on March 15th with Anthropophagous, I Destroyer, and labelmates Ritual Clearing in western Massachusetts.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Formosus" exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Also hear the previously revealed "Fissured Cosmos" HERE at Eternal Death's Bandcamp, where the mini-album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Compress' The Final Level of Consciousness

1. Fissured Cosmos [5:18]

2. The Final Level of Consciousness [6:00]

3. Formosus [4:18]

4. Damnatio Memoriae [6:21]