Monday, April 18, 2022

LUMINOUS VAULT: POST NEW TRACK "ANCIENT NORTH"


 New York City, New York, U.S.A based blackened/death metal warriors LUMINOUS VAULT have posted  "ANCIENT NORTH", a track from the bands anticipated new release "ANIMATE THE EMPTINESS", due to be unleashed 5/20/2022 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS. 



LUMINOUS VAULT unleashed "CHARISMATA" (EP),  3/10/2016 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS. 

 

 

 

 LUMINOUS VAULT:

We are thrilled to announce that our debut full length, entitled “Animate the Emptiness” will be released by @profoundlorerecords on May 20th on CD/LP/digital. The first single “Regeneration” just went live everywhere today, alongside the album pre-order. This one has been a long time coming. Hails to all who have supported us so far!
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Animate the Emptiness is the debut full length by the NYC metal duo Luminous Vault. On their long awaited follow-up to 2017’s Charismata EP, guitarist/vocalist Mario Diaz de Leon (Oneirogen, Bloodmist) and bassist/vocalist Samuel Smith (Artificial Brain, Aeviterne) present a bold and unique hybrid of black/death metal and electronic music.
From their inception in 2015, Luminous Vault have combined the “machine rhythm” approach of pioneering bands Godflesh and Blut Aus Nord with black metal and synthesizers. On Animate the Emptiness, this vibrant fusion is expressed with an intensity surpassing that of the band’s past efforts. Tracks such as Incarnate Flame Arise are pervaded by the slow, speaker-rattling thud of an electronic kick drum, punctuated by Smith’s distorted bassline and synthetic hi-hat patterns, while Diaz de Leon’s guitar intones haunting tremolo-picked melodies and feedback-laden squalls. On closing track Ancient North, melancholic doom metal harmonies sustain over syncopated bass and drum rhythms, giving way to a euphoric surge of major key tremolo riffs. Diaz de Leon and Smith’s vocal lines alternately evoke apocalyptic sermons and a call from otherwordly depths, with surrealistic lyrics that draw inspiration from psychospiritual trials and transformations, full of alchemical imagery. 
Animate the Emptiness was recorded by the band in NYC between 2019 and early 2020, mixed by MDdL, and mastered by @joshbonati
Artwork by @fivetimesno . Logo by @actremblayart . Design by MDdL and @chimerenoire . Band photo by @tobydriver
“Animate the Emptiness” tracklisting:
1. Invoke Radiant Gleam
2. Incarnate Flame Arise
3. Divine Transduction
4. Regeneration
5. Earth Daemon
6. Embryonic
7. Ancient North

 

 

VIDEO BELOW:  LUMINOUS VAULT:  "ANCIENT NORTH" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OF PROFOUND LORE RECORDS): 

 

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- m