Birmingham (AL) – Ten years after its initial release and in honored celebration of the band’s fifteenth anniversary of existence, Boris Records is proud to announce today’s exclusive vinyl reissue of Ectovoid’s long out of print sophomore full-length album, Dark Abstraction. The limited reissue comes in two versions – plain black and marbled purple.
- “Another unearthed death metal gem that should be revered.” – Meat Mead Metal
- “The eight tracks here are executed with unrelenting precision that doesn’t sacrifice bestial instinct in the name of technical prowess. These guys are enormously talented.” – Decibel
- “Dark Abstraction is filled to the brim with raw power and dark energy.”- Metal Temple
- “A fun little slice of down and dirty doomy death.” – Last Rites
- “Dark Abstraction is a solid piece of early 90’s death-worship, full of staunch riffs and exactly 1.822m of dirt.”- Toilet ov Hell
- “Dark Abstraction embodies the moment when Ectovoid ceased to be a promising act and consolidated itself as one of the most solid bands in the American underground.” (9/10)- Broken Tomb
- “Packing enough hefty brutality to cause great harm.”- No Clean Singing
Purchase/Stream:
https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-abstraction-reissue
The band’s most recent full length recording and tragically the last to feature the band’s late founding guitarist Michael Stewart, Dark Abstraction, was originally released in 2015 on CD by Polish label Hellthrasher Productions and LP by Swedish label Blood Harvest Records. A massive step forward in every way from the outfit’s well regarded if unpolished debut album, Dark Abstraction represented an energetic, riff-focused, and creative spin on the cavernous, blackened death metal sound that was flooding the scene in copious amounts in the mid-2010’s. With eight varied and memorable tracks, a greatly improved production, and an ever-advancing sense of expression and craftsmanship from all instruments, this was the sound of a young band stepping out of their formative beginnings and emerging confidently as the established and respected outfit they are known as today.
Boris Records is excited to bring this under-appreciated work of death metal darkness back to the public consciousness –Ectovoid’s exhumation from the forgotten graves is long overdue.
Track Listing:
- Obscure Altars
- Visions of Reflective Decay
- Mental Netherworlds
- Precipice of Absolute Chaos
- Rituals of Hallucination
- The Expanse Between Slumber and Death
- A Prisoner of Paradox
- Spawned from Unending Mystery
Credits:
Recorded in Autumn 2014 by Joshua Freemon at Dead Sound Studios.
Mixed by Joshua Freemon.
Mastered by Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studios.
Cover art by Bartlomiej Kurzok.
Band photos by Amber Slanders.
Line-up:
C.B. – Bass/Vocals
M.S. – Guitar
C.M. – Drums
BAND LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/ectovoid/
https://ectovoid.bandcamp.com/
LABEL LINKS:
https://borisrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/borisrecordsatl/
https://www.instagram.com/borisrecords/
*Thanks to ClawHammer PR