Fabled German death metallers Drowned return from their years-long, self-imposed slumber to rain death, doom, and destruction upon mankind once more. New song “Chryseos Vas” picks up the mummified corpse right where the group’s macabre 2014 debut Idola Specus left off. It’s both a nod to Drowned’s origins–the group formed in Berlin in 1992–and the group’s doomed-out march into oblivion. Featuring Greg Circum (also The Ruins of Beverast), Tlmnn (ex-Necros Christos), and Tobias Engl (Corrode, also Englsound), Drowned pull at all the right heartstrings.
Says Circum: “‘Chryseos Vas’ is the album closer and one of two 7-minute epics on the album [Procul His], with a lot of different tempos and parts. It kicks in with a very catchy riff that transmutes through more odd time signatures to finally dissolve into a death doom maelstrom.”
With death from above and doom in our eyes, Drowned close out the week with “Chryseos Vas.” Prepare…
