Tomb Mold

[VoivodBG]

 

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Malo me razočaralo spoznaja da nema teme za ove mlade junake. Prošle godine su zasijali kao supernova sa Manor of Infinite Forms albumom, a sade se pojavio novi album koji nabada sve osećaje kako treba od virtuoznih solaža i lirika koje su ukorenjene duboko u sci fi teme koje dođu kao pravo osveženje. I traje taman toliko da ne bude dosadno za repeat slušanja. Plus produkcija je baš kako treba, svi instrumenti dišu! Bombon.

Sviđa mi se kako gitarista razmišlja u ovom intervjuu, pogotovo poslednja rečenica. Video sam da će do kraja godine da dođu u Evropu na turneju, nadam se kakvoj Mađarskoj pa da se ode na hodočašće...

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“The idea of purgatory, just imagine being infinitely stuck—that sucks, man.”

 

 

That’s Tomb Mold guitarist Derrick Vella on “Infinite Resurrection,” the fourth track on the Toronto death metal quartet’s new record Planetary Clairvoyance. “I guess that’s how people feel when they grow old and something happens to them and they’re on life support. They’re like, ‘I can’t do anything. Being alive is worse than being dead.’ Stuff like that freaks me out.”

True to its name, Clairvoyance is a record fueled by arcane, eternal forces—rebirth, mutation, consumption, the infinite purgatory we call deep space. Planets eat themselves whole (“Planetary Clairvoyance”), entire populations get vaporized and reborn in an endless cycle of agony (“Beg For Life”), alien viruses wreak havoc on human bodies (“Infinite Resurrection”). 

“I didn’t want it to be suicidal in tone, but more like complete annihilation of everything—a cleaning of the astral slate, where everything around you decomposes, everything dissolves into nothing,” says Vella, who co-wrote the album alongside drummer/vocalist Max Klebanoff, Tomb Mold’s other core member. “The first track [‘Beg For Life’] is the beginning of that process, ‘Cerulean [Salvation]’ is the actual act of it happening, and ‘Heat Death’ is the aftermath.”

On Clairvoyance, Tomb Mold make a bold proposal: the only thing scarier than death is immortality. “Resurrection,” a track partially inspired by Dan Simmons’s novel Hyperion, deals with constant mutation as “a weapon for an alien race that’s greater than you,” as Vella puts it. It’s also a reflection of our own reality, “when we’re stuck in these situations [where] you compromise, and you compromise, and you change things about yourself until you aren’t yourself anymore,” says Vella. “You’re constantly changing, but not for the better.”

Clairvoyance is not exactly progressive death metal, but it does move in a more intricate direction when compared to their last two records. It’s definitely their most ambitious work, bringing complexity to their ooze. They recognize growth is vital. Vella’s playing is still thick, but it’s an indomitable blob that’s nimble now, a burlier take on Cynic, a band which he quipped are “as New Age as you can get with death metal.” 

“The thing that’s so cool about death metal is how imaginative it can be, there’s no real barriers. It’s not so much that we have to stray from the norm, but I like the idea that you can just do whatever you want,” Vella says.

Finnish death metal has always been an influence, and Clairvoyance is fittingly imbued with Demilich’s slime-ridden, beyond weird spirit. The new wave of OSDM started out in death metal’s origins, mining from the simpler stylings of Obituary, Cianide, and Autopsy. Clairvoyance is something more like Death’s Human or Individual Thought Patterns, when death metal began to branch out and take on more complex forms.

“As we’re progressing, we really want to wrap our heads around stepping in a more complex territory and boosting our technicality,” Klebanoff says. “I don’t wanna say that the final product is better if it’s more technical, but we’re just in our weird zone where we’re just playing as hard as we can, let’s keep pushing and pushing until we hit whatever the endgame is in this progression.”

The fear of mediocrity is an important engine for Clairvoyance, and in discussing that, Vella bring up Some Kind of Monster, the award-winning documentary chronicling Metallica’s tumultuous recording process for 2003’s St. Anger. It’s really more of a tragic comedy; Lars Ulrich’s bad Eminem dye job, his father’s infamous “Delete that” line, and the band’s bumbling rage throughout are simultaneously sad and hilarious. Tomb Mold’s takeaway from the film: stay true to yourself, and don’t make a shitty record.

“There’s that scene where Lars is having a nervous breakdown watching Jason Newsted’s new band [Echobrain] play because he’s like, ‘Fuck, Metallica’s not cool anymore,’” says Vella. And it’s like, yeah, you’re right. You convinced yourself you weren’t, and you made St. Anger. Can you just imagine toiling away at something for so long, and that’s your outcome? That would just break me,” he says. “We all deal with fears and anxieties like that—indifference is a terrible feeling too.”

Tomb Mold are on a hell-bent track: Clairvoyance is their third record in three years, their last one, Manor of Infinite Forms, is barely a year old; and they snuck the Cerulean Salvation tape, containing early versions of Clairvoyance’s title track and “Cerulean Salvation,” in between. They put out material at such a rapid pace, indifference is nearly impossible. Pretty remarkable considering that Vella and Klebanoff initially set out only to make demos.

“I really wanted it to be self-sustaining, it’s like a little microcosm,” Klebanoff says. “Wanted to push forward and wanting to be our band and not have too many outside bodies dictating us is an exciting thing.”

Vella adds: “I treat the band like we’re on borrowed time. There’s no guarantee we can keep doing this for years: we wanna crank out as much cool shit as possible before the wheels come off.” Or before “Heat Death” becomes a case of life imitating art.

 

[Haos sam ja]

Pozdravljam otvaranje teme. Definitivno jedan od uzbudljivijih novijih DM bendova, uz Horrendous i Blood Incantation.

[Kumodraski Vo]

Jos jedan novi dm bend ciji hajp ne kontam, prvih nekolko pesama sa ovog novog su ok..

[Grobodan]

Hajp je realan, svaki sledeci album bolji od prethodnog.

(mada nije da nemaju sarma oni primitivni Finnish worhip prvi radovi)

[Kumodraski Vo]

Taj prvi album mi bio sranje, pa sam drugi preskocio. Ovaj jes bolji ali smori na pola vec. Ne znam meni je dm trenutno bas bas bajat..

[kuruz]

meni ovaj novi neviđeno dosadan

[HUMAN]

Lepo što se na ovaj način "promovišu" bendovi, ali ja stvarno ne vidim poentu otvaranja novih tema, pogotovo na ovom podforumu. Teško da će ova tema imati više od jedne-dve stranice.. sem ako Grobodan i ja ne udjemo u polemiku oko behemotha

bte meni ovaj bend i nije tako loš, ali što kaže Vo već od polovine počinje smarati.. ako neki bend zaslužuje temu to je trenutno jedino INFERNAL CONJURATION, po meni već imaju album godine, a opušteno mogu reći i najbolji DM album poslednjih nekoliko godina. Videćemo da li Blood Incantation može da im izadje na crtu, nadam se da će biti tesno, ali i BI ume malo da udavi predugačkim kompozicijama..

 

[Grobodan]

45 minutes ago, HUMAN said:

ja stvarno ne vidim poentu otvaranja novih tema, pogotovo na ovom podforumu.

Sto, sta fali, neka malo zivne s novim licima forum.

[HUMAN]

Pa voleo bih i ja da živne, ali šta vredi kad ovaj podforum prati dva i po čoveka..

 

..a ja sam momak i po

[kuruz]

vidi ga što se loži, a jedva četiri godinice spojio ovde

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[Miilos]

On 7/29/2019 at 11:11 PM, HUMAN said:

ako neki bend zaslužuje temu to je trenutno jedino INFERNAL CONJURATION, po meni već imaju album godine, a opušteno mogu reći i najbolji DM album poslednjih nekoliko godina.

Mene je nešto brzo prošla volja da ih slušam. Neka odstoji malo pa ćemo da vidimo.

A ovaj Tomb Mold mi nikad nije lego, ne znam više ni da li da pokušavam.

[HUMAN]

Zato ih slušam na kašičicu, otprilike pola albuma, pa posle par dana drugu polovinu, baš da ne preforsiram, ovako mi legne jer svaki put kad pustim otkrijem nešto novo, pregršt zanimljivih rifova, solaža..

[Kumodraski Vo]

To ti kazem samo na kasicicu i moze, ove nove bendove bih slusao kada bi napravili neke best of kompilacije najboljih pesama npr po izdavackoj kuci pa eto kao da ima sta da se cuje novo..

[Miilos]

Ja slušam uvek cele albume. Ako ne mogu da odslušam ceo, koj' će mi đavo.

[Grobodan]

Ne otvaraj tu Pandorinu kutiju na ovom forumu haha

[HUMAN]

Zavisi od raspoloženja, nekad slušam cele albume u cugu, nekad ni Reign in Blood ne odslušam u celosti..

[Haos sam ja]

Dobar novi, klasična betonomešalka.

[Haos sam ja]

Kao što rekoh, dobar album, ali nekako se nameće poređenje sa bendovima tipa Blood Incantation, Horrendous i sl. a ipak su daleko manje zanimljiviji od ta dva benda barem meni.

[Grobodan]

Bas taj neki raduljica, i ja od njih sve cekam neku eksploziju nevidjene kreativnosti kao kod navedena dva benda a dobijem ''samo'' kompetentne death metal albume.

Doduse ovaj novi je najblizi tome but not quite there yet.

[Milosh87]

 

[Kumodraski Vo]

Kakav bre demo nakon tri albuma  

[Demon Seed]

19 minutes ago, Kumodraski Vo said:

Kakav bre demo nakon tri albuma  

Možda produkcijska i marketinška kurcobolja, respect

[Kumodraski Vo]

Respect samo za dobre rifove..

[Talvi]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxDi8YhO_pL/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

[VoivodBG]

 

After releasing three albums in three years and then spending the next four in the wilderness, TOMB MOLD has been reborn on fourth album ‘The Enduring Spirit’, a thoroughly unabashed step into vast new territories.

Yet for all its frenetic daring and audacious exploration, ‘The Enduring Spirit’ is never anything other than unmistakably Tomb Mold.

With 4 years away, a band with boundless creative energy, as TOMB MOLD are, were certain to expand the scope of their vision, and on ‘The Enduring Spirit’ they’ve shaped a record with a cinematic environment that offers unlimited avenues of exploration, both for themselves and the listener.

1. The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)
2. Angelic Fabrications
3. Will Of Whispers
4. Fate’s Tangled Thread
5. Flesh As Armour
6. Servants Of Possibility
7. The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity

Recorded at @boxcarsound by Sean Pearson
Mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (@dehuman1zer)
Cover artwork by Jesse Jacobi (@pit_of_bones)
Additional artwork by Karmazid (@karmazid)
Layout and Design by Chimère Noire (@chimerenoire)