Vlürch - Empyreal Obtenebration (2022)

 The new album is finished! It would've ended up longer and better if I didn't stick to my "one album per year" schedule, but I feel like I need to stick to that schedule or I'll risk getting just as sporadic with solo releases as Deformed Elephant Surgery, so... yeah, this album may not be perfect (as if anything I did was), but at least I hope some people will find it listenable.

01. Holometabolic Heteromorphosis
02. Coulrophobia (feat. Jared Spry)
03. Matriphagic Parthenogone
04. Empyreal Obtenebration
05. Offal of Farlies
06. Synderesis (feat. Slow Crone)
07. The Inherence of Existential Dread
08. The Wind That Shreds Flesh
09. Apeiromania
10. Trypophilia (feat. Puke Borb)
11. The Feathered Serpent
12. Phantasmal Palingenesis

Click on song titles to listen on Youtube, or alternatively here as one video.
Also on Bandcamp, where it's free to download.
You can also download it from Mediafire, if you prefer that.

I should probably explain why this album has the same title as an album I made as Heave the Sun back in 2012 (ten years ago wtf!) since some people might think "really? is THIS how little creativity you have left???". Basically, as soon as that album was finished, I thought "I want to do better versions of these songs later", and in 2020 I already did a new version of "Feeding the Demiurge" for the album "Numen" (not necessarily a better version, since I couldn't figure out how to recreate that weird synth sound from the original song anymore, but...)

 So, doing new versions of the other songs from that album is what I meant to do on this album, but... well, it didn't exactly turn out that way, since it's just the title track. Still, it's the title track of that album, so I thought I should call this album with the same name. Makes sense, right? I really wanted to do new versions of "Living Shadows of Abraxas" and "Venom of the Seraphim", too, but there was some shit that made me not have enough time or motivation. So, I might expand this album later, if I get around to it in 2023 or even later... who knows.

"Coulrophobia" and "Synderesis" were already released as singles, but I'll still mention how happy I am about Jared Spry's sax magic on the former and Slow Crone's guitar solo on the latter! Those songs just wouldn't be the same without their contributions, so... yeah. Also, another friend who wanted to remain anonymous (so he went by Puke Borb lol) did microtonal guitar to a couple of parts of "Trypophilia", which is pretty epic, really enhanced the atmosphere!