Still hot from the release of their critically acclaimed full-length, Devouring Ruin that came out in March of this year, Alberta, Canada extreme metallers WAKE have unleashed a blistering 3 song EP - titled, Confluence - to set the world ablaze once more. The three gut-wrenching tracks are streaming now at Decibel Magazine.
About Confluence, the band had this to say:
"We feel like the momentum of Devouring Ruin propelled us forward into this record," the band shares. "We had so many ideas and movements we wanted to work with when we were writing Devouring, and there was just a whole lot of ground we didn't get to cover. Confluence is our place to carry on with some of the experiments we had composed and flesh them out into something concise. The recording feels like a whirring between two separate dimensions; some kind of clarity and some kind of shifted space. All of us wanted to try a whole bunch of different things and we did our best to blend them together into something still purely forceful, but that will hopefully bring to bear other questions for listeners."
Vocalist Kyle Ball shares:
"The whole idea of this EP was to go out of our comfort zone and try some different things. This time around, I avoided writing overly personal lyrics; there's a bit of it sprinkled throughout the album, but not a lot. The concepts on this album are about exploring the boundaries of reality and altered states of consciousness; hypothetically inhabiting these realities causing them to crash within themselves. Confluence-meaning the merger of two or more things-directly plays into the artwork, as well as the lyrical themes. The album title was inspired by the album art, which depicts two realities inhabiting one space through a window or doorway."
Confluence will be released digitally, which is available HERE today, and on two ultra limited LP variants via Translation Loss Records. Official release date for physical is January 15, 2020. Pre-order is available right now HERE.
WAKE
Confluence
Translation Loss Records
Digital: October 20, 2020
Physical: January 15, 2020
TRACK LISTING:
1. Disparity and Chaos
2. Beyond Empyrean
3. Entropic Cascade Failure
Album artwork by Nathalie Ericson
Promo photo by Mike Wells
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