WITHERING SOUL Announce New Album "Last Contact" and Chicago Release Show
Blackened Melodic Death Metal veterans WITHERING SOUL have announced the September 24 release of new album Last Contact on Mortal Music. The band's album release show with MORTA SKULD occurs the same evening at The Cobra Lounge in Chicago.
The band released the following statement concerning Last Contact: "WITHERING SOUL continues with their fourth installment of blackened melodic death metal, dramatic mood swings and eerie atmospheres. Last Contact is an anthology of stories that blur the line between the living and deceased and elaborates on the idea of receiving a communication from someone or something that no longer exists. Anything from a voice recording, a distress signal, to a star flickering in the night sky. The observer is left only to their interpretation, unsuspecting of what could potentially be something far more sinister than what appears. Reality is sometimes the scariest narrative of all!"
Keep your ears open to Withering Soul’s as well as the Cobra Lounge’s Facebook pages for when tickets go up.
Tracklist:
Visitation
Allegory of the Void
Carrion Reflection
Of Blackened Pillars
Ascent to Madness
Into the Harrowing Expanse
The Transcendence of Night
Uncharted Course
Album Credits:
Mixed and mastered by Dennis Israel at Clintworks Audio
Cover artwork by Pierre-Alain D. of 3mmi Design (www.3mmi.org)
Drums recorded at Belle City Sound
Guitar and Vocal recording engineered by Exhul from Ossilegium
Bass Guitar recorded at Studio 1134
Withering Soul is:
Wilder - Guitar
Christopher - Vocals and Guitar
Rick - Drums
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