Out Tuesday, January 15 on Everlasting Spew Records, Macrcosmos represents the second album from Fractal Generator. Formed in 2007 by members of the now-defunct black metal band Wolven Ancestry, the Ontario-based trio crush a technical and grinding style of death metal informed by hard sci-fi and bleak oracular visions.
According to the Fractal Generator, Macrocosmos unfolds a dystopian horror about “future humans travelling a distant solar system who discover evidence that the universe is a simulation.” The meaning behind the album title Macrocosmos, the band says, “refers to the existence of larger ‘universes’ that encompass our tiny known universe.”
The follow-up to their 2015 debut Apotheosythesis, the band wasted little time before setting to work on Macrocosmos. The band says, “This album took about five years to complete,” and go on to call the new album “a big step up … in terms of production[.]”
Today we have the pleasure of administering our readers with the latest single to be teased out from Fractal Generator’s forthcoming cerebral realignment. According to the band, today’s track premiere is a song “about future humans consuming all the resources of planets, leaving them behind as lifeless husks as they move through space, trying to survive and replicat[ing] like a disease. It was one of the first songs we wrote for the new album, but it’s still one of [our] favourites. It’s fast and destructive sounding and packed with a lot of great riffs. Check it out!”
“Contagion”
Get Macrocosmos January 15 from Everlasting Spew Records
