{"id":72214,"date":"2018-11-09T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=72214"},"modified":"2018-11-09T17:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T17:20:38","slug":"news-evoken-release-sixth-studio-album-hypnagogia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-evoken-release-sixth-studio-album-hypnagogia\/","title":{"rendered":"EVOKEN Make New Album \u2018Hypnagogia\u2019 Available For Streaming In Its Entirety (November 9th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

EVOKEN Make New Album \u2018Hypnagogia\u2019 Available For Streaming In Its Entirety<\/strong><\/span>
\nNovember 9th, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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American death \/ doom metal group Evoken issued sixth full-length studio album Hypnagogia<\/em> on November 9th, 2018 through Profound Lore Records.<\/p>\n

The outing has been made available for streaming in its entirety and can be accessed via the Bandcamp player below.<\/p>\n

Hypnagogia<\/em> was recorded, mixed and mastered at Sound Spa studios in New Jersey by Steven DeAcutis.<\/p>\n

Cover artwork duties fell to Adam Burke.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we do on every record. we definitely wanted to avoid repeating ourselves,\u201d said drummer and lyricist Vince Verkay. \u201cWe wanted to keep it Evoken, of course, but go a little deeper with melody and arrangement and also try new things; to present the listener with an emotionally exhausting record.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hypnagogia<\/em> also marks Evoken\u2019s inaugural concept affair, Verkay relaying the themes and lyrics surrounding the record: \u201cHypnagogia<\/em> is based around World War I and its physiological impact on those who fought. It\u2019s used metaphorically about events that impacted me the past three years, which I will keep to myself. But the story behind this World War I theme is based on a soldier who was so bitter about being lied to and is losing his life. He\u2019s wounded in battle and decides to write a journal of his final hours, describing what he sees and what he feels as his life is slipping away.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeeling cheated, he makes a pact with a sadistic god that he can leave a part of his soul, which contains all of his suffering, within this journal. To feel some sort of vengeance, anyone who reads this journal releases that part of his soul and it attaches itself to the reader like a host. Each emotion being experienced as if they too where there. As the reader descends into a deep despair, they cannot handle this suffering, deciding to take their own life.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce gone, that part of their soul, containing all the misery is taken by the writer\u2019s misery-laden soul and attaches itself to this journal again, increasing its powerful grip onto the next reader and each time its read with its power increasing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The track listing is as follows;<\/p>\n

01. \u2018The Fear After\u2019
\n02. \u2018Valorous Consternation\u2019
\n03. \u2018Schadenfreude\u2019
\n04. \u2018Too Feign Ebullience\u2019
\n05. \u2018Hypnagogia\u2019
\n06. \u2018Ceremony Of Bleeding\u2019
\n07. \u2018Hypnopompic\u2019
\n08. \u2018The Weald Of Perished Men\u2019<\/p>\n

Hypnagogia<\/em>\u2019s recording line-up was as follows;<\/p>\n

John Paradiso (vocals and guitars)
\nChris Molinari (guitars)
\nDave Wagner (bass)
\nVince Verkay (drums)
\nDon Zaros (keyboards)<\/p>\n

Fifth studio record Atra Mors<\/em> was released in July 2012 via Profound Lore.<\/p>\n

Promotional photograph by Jenny Panic.<\/em><\/p>\n