BrooklynVegan Streams Deathstar From Finnish Progressive Death Metal Pioneers, Convulse!

BrooklynVegan is currently streaming Deathstar, the latest full-length from Finnish progressive death metal pioneers CONVULSE, in its entirety. The premiere comes in advance of the record's official release this Friday, October 30th via Transcending Records.

Fusing the prime tenets of death metal, heavy rock, and prog into something innovative and enticing, the near forty-one-minute masterwork presents nine tracks that transcend the boundaries of standard death metal. Arguably picking up where the band's underrated 1994 Reflections full-length left off, Deathstar adopts a similar genre-bending approach and modernizes it.

Comments guitarist/vocalist Rami Jämsä, "The Deathstar album process took three years. We continued rehearsing weekly after the Cycle Of Revenge release in 2016, because we have found a natural way to express ourselves as a trio, and new song motifs kept on coming. You can definitely hear this progress on Deathstar. We have become more mature and confident about what we want to do. When we started to rehearse and record the new album, we didn't have a record deal. We just had a passion to play and record. We [saved] money to cover proper studio costs in an excellent analog studio with a professional recording and mixing engineer. We always like to work together and have a real album recording and mixing sessions instead of some bedroom sessions. I think all went smoothly, but of course, it took a lot of time and there were stressful moments too during the whole process. Lyrically Deathstar is a concept album about the condition of humanity and our planet. Only 'We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'N' Roll' breaks this concept. Deathstar will be an interesting experience for anyone who listens to music without genre limitations. It includes music that I would like to listen to myself."

Adds BrooklynVegan, "The new album finds CONVULSE in fine form, continuing down their path of pairing vicious death metal with bright rock riffs and proggy tendencies."

Stream CONVULSE's Deathstar via BrooklynVegan at THIS LOCATION: www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-finnish-death-metal-vets-convulses-first-album-in-4-years-deathstar/

View the band's previously released lyric videos for the record's title track and "Summoning" below.





Deathstar will be released on CD, limited-edition deluxe CD, digital, cassette, and vinyl formats. For physical preorders in North America, go to here: transcendingrecords.com/products/convulse-deathstar for European orders, go here: eu.transcendingrecords.com/collections/frontpage and for digital orders, go here: transcendingrecs.bandcamp.com/album/deathstar

When Finland's first death metal boom started in the late 1980s/early 1990s, among the first of its troops on the frontlines was CONVULSE. Like many of their comrades, the band churned out that dark, brutal, uncompromising style of death metal for which the scene had become notorious, culminating in the band's 1991 debut, World Without God, released on now-defunct French label Thrash Records. Shortly after, CONVULSE followed in the footsteps of many of their contemporaries and began flirting with progressive rock elements as was evinced on their 1992 EP Lost Equilibrium and then fully refined on second full-length Reflections, both of which were released via Relapse Records. The band called it quits in 1994.

CONVULSE returned in 2012, ready to tread the path they helped pave decades prior. The band released their Inner Evil EP followed by comeback album, Evil Prevails. Brutal, menacing Finnish death metal was the name of the game here, lacking in any other unnecessary gimmicks or modern trends. History would partially repeat itself in 2016 when the band revisited the prog infused death 'n' roll leanings on their fourth studio album, Cycle Of Revenge. It was on this album where they would reach their full potential manifesting a unique and engaging sound, one they've been cultivating ever since.

Deathstar finds the band at their most ambitious. A very different band than the one that marched in the first wave decades ago, as the only real holdover of their original sound is the iconic deep grunts of Rami Jämsä. Their ability to bridge the gap between hard rock grooves and airy melodic sections drenched in the atmosphere is nothing short of astounding, and even experienced ears will find some new twists and turns to marvel at. Their influences are numerous; their sound varied. Deathstar will take its listeners on a soothing journey to beautiful and unknown places whose nuance and depth will make parting a sweet sorrow and each return all the more rewarding.

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Teddy    November 03, 2020