CAST THE STONE Release ‘Empyrean Atrophy’ EP
August 31st, 2018
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American death / black metal group Cast The Stone issued six-track EP Empyrean Atrophy on August 31st, 2018 through Agonia Records.
The outing can be streamed in its entirety below.
Guitarist Mark Kloeppel commented: “The band’s sound is a testament to an enduring spirit that’s driven us to return to our most organic influences, merge them together, incorporate disparate elements, and forge our own sound. Each person has a distinct sound unto themselves, so it’s really cool how smooth and cohesive this stuff comes across. You can immediately hear how different this is from the other things we’ve been involved in, yet it’s still very true to our individual styles. Our bassist Derek progressively weaves my guitars and Jesse’s uber-creative drumming style together in a way that only he can. This is all crowned off by Andy Huskey’s crazy death metal vocals which are… well, just listen.”
Empyrean Atrophy was produced by Dan Swanö. Cover artwork duties fell to Gary Ronaldson of Bite Radius Designs.
Included is a cover interpretation of the track ‘JesuSatan’. Written by Infestdead – whose ranks boasted Dan Swanö – its original rendition was featured on the 1999 album of the same name. Helmed by David Hall, a music video was filmed for said cover, which can be viewed below.
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The track listing is as follows;
01. ‘As The Dead Lie’
02. ‘The Burning Horizon’
03. ‘Standing In The Shadows’
04. ‘A Plague Of Light’
05. ‘Empyrean Atrophy’‘The Burning Horizon’
06. ‘JesuSatan’
Cast The Stone’s line-up is as follows;
Andrew Huskey (vocals)
Mark Kloeppel (guitars, Misery Index / Scour)
Derek Engemann (bass, ex-Cattle Decapitation / Scour)
Jesse Schobel (drums, Legend / ex-Scour)
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Empyrean Atrophy was made available in the following formats; digipak CD, black LP, white LP (Bandcamp exclusive), purple splatter LP (Agonia Records webshop exclusive), and digital.
Official lyric videos were created for the songs ‘As The Dead Lie’ and ‘A Plague Of Light’, while a bass playthrough video was released for the track ‘The Burning Horizon’. All three clips can also be viewed below.
Debut studio record Dark Winds Descending was released in 2005 via Chunks Of Meat.
