Whitechapel Broadcasts ‘Hymns In Dissonance’ Album
Knoxville, Tennessee demise metallers Whitechapel will liberate their long-awaited new full-length album, “Hymns In Dissonance”, on March 7 by means of Steel Blade Data.
“There may be not anything great about ‘Hymns In Dissonance’, from the riffs, to the lyrics, to the entire vibe of the album,” says guitarist Alex Wade of the band’s newest output. “We tried to write down our heaviest album so far. We needed to position out one thing that was once shockingly menacing and brutal.”
“The album follows the tale of a cultist who’s accumulating worthy other folks to sign up for his cult,” Wade additional elaborates, “and there are moments within the storyline the place the cult fans are making a song an evil hymn to open a portal for the top cultist to go into.”
The band’s dynamic, brutal musicality serves as a soundtrack to the compelling lyrical tale that vocalist Phil Bozeman vividly imagines.
“‘Hymns In Dissonance’ is a mockery of the real nature of what hymns are,” Bozeman explains. “Hymns are melodious and harmonious. Dissonance is the other of melody and solidarity. Dissonance represents evil. The tracks at the report are the hymns, which constitute the seven fatal sins, starting from observe 3 to trace ten. Tracks one and two are the creation.”
The lineup’s well timed and terrifying imaginative and prescient was once first unveiled within the fall of 2024 with the one “A Visceral Retch” inciting frenzied lovers to name the tune “a model of Whitechapel we’ve got by no means heard earlier than. Can’t give an explanation for how completely goddamn brutal this tune is. It is a overall dream come true.” The identify observe is the LP’s 2d unmarried.
Whitechapel, who shaped in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2006, has noticed the core lineup — vocalist Phil Bozeman, guitarists Ben Savage, Zach Householder and Alex Wade, and bassist Gabe Crisp — intact since 2007, apart from drummer Brandon Zackey, who has been taking part in with the band since 2022. Whilst “Hymns In Dissonance” follows 2021’s “Family” chronologically, the brand new album is in fact rather of a sequel to “This Is Exile” thematically, the three-word identify “Hymns In Dissonance” representing that correlation.
The band began composing the brand new album at Householder‘s studio in June of 2023, following their headlining excursion for “The Valley”. The collective caught to a strict weekday time table, the construction bearing in mind most creativity and minimal burnout. Householder produced “Hymns In Dissonance”, which allowed the musicians to seamlessly transfer gears from preproduction to recording the overall album with out skipping a beat. The guitarist shadowed manufacturer Mark Lewis so much during the last 5 WHITECHAPEL albums and bringing that affect within the band is a complete circle second for Householder and Whitechapel.
Prematurely of the discharge, lately the band unleashes a video for the identify observe. Notes Bozeman, “It’s about [the storyline’s cultist] construction his cult of fans: Best probably the most heinous and vile other folks in the world appearing their devotion to their lord, committing terrible acts, and the chief showcasing his energy and his goal to devote the seven cardinal sins to resurrect their lord, and to interchange divinity with evil.”
Provides Wade, “Most commonly written by way of Phil on guitar, ‘Hymns In Dissonance’ has a couple of riffs and tweaks thrown in by way of the remainder of us. He can churn out some pummeling riffs and it’s one of the vital best possible songs at the album as a result of he had a imaginative and prescient for the entire tune with the riffs and vocals. It’s tuned to Drop G which we’ve got been the usage of for the reason that self-titled LP, however the finishing breakdown shifts down one complete step to Drop F, which we’ve got by no means performed earlier than. Having the overall breakdown shift less than the remainder of the tune truly helped the tip have the crushing feeling it wanted.”
Watch Whitechapel‘s video for “Hymns In Dissonance”, directed by way of My Excellent Eye Visuals, underneath.
“Hymns In Dissonance”, which options quilt artwork by way of Ecu tattoo artist Rob Borbas (Grind Design),shall be launched on CD and virtual codecs in addition to vinyl.
“Hymns In Dissonance” observe list:
01. Prisoner 666
02. Hymns In Dissonance
03. Diabolic Shut eye
04. A Visceral Retch
05. Ex Infernis
06. Hate Cult Ritual
07. The Abysmal Gospel
08. Bedlam
09. Mammoth God
10. Not anything Is Coming For Any Of Us
