Lord Mantis

Lord Mantis

Universal Death Church

Profound Lore

The inevitable regeneration of Lord Mantis occurred when vocalist / bassist Charlie Fell and guitarist / vocalist Andrew Markuszewski decided to mend ties and once again join forces in a new, renewed union to properly carry on the Lord Mantis legacy—mired in chaos and virulence—by honouring the memory of late drummer / founder Bill Bumgardner, with their new album Universal Death Church.  With guitarist Ken Sorceron of Abigail Williams fame (who also joined Lord Mantis on Death Mask) and new drummer Bryce Butler, along with honorary vocalist / member Dylan O’Toole of Indian, Universal Death Church is the result of a band who has overcome dark and chaotic chapters and bitter internal feuds to set out once again to raise the bar of extreme music after the suicide of a key founding member.  This album sees the group with a new sense of purpose and focus. More developed and immeasurable, vast and towering, it continues the doomed and blackened depraved metal paradigm that has become the signature resonating palpitation surrounding the Lord Mantis sound. The threading between punishing, torturous yet direct, and, at times, tangible industrial-influenced riffing with the more abstract, dark, blackened surreal-like crawling and swift passages paint a new disturbing sonic portrait for the band. This renewed union became akin to that of repairing tissue of an unnamable and vile organism. Leveling up the beast.  Having that infamous reputation of being one of the more vexed acts within the extreme metal scene, as amassed on...

Lord Mantis

NTW

New Density

***"LORD MANTIS is fucking back, and their soon to be released EP entitled NTW is just as sonically diseased as their previous works! They are one band that has a trademark sound that makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand to attention. I really don’t care about all of the drama surrounding this band, all I care is that not too many bands can fuck with them when it comes to creating music that is pure audio filth eating away at human flesh in an inhuman way!"—Cvlt Nation. 12-inch EP housed in thick jackets and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. CD in digipaks.

Lord Mantis

Death Mask

Profound Lore

Over the years, Chicago doom / noise band Lord Mantis have made a name for themselves within the underground metal scene alongside fellow local metal bands like The Atlas Moth and Yakuza. Their last album, Pervertor (Candlelight Records), brought them recognition within doom and even black metal circles, assisted by the fact that the band features current and former members from Indian, Nachtmystium, Abigail Williams and Avichi.  With their third album, Lord Mantis present their most devastating and triumphant work to date. Death Mask is a much darker, doomier and more experimental offering destined to bring further recognition to Lord Mantis among the doom / black / noise metal elite, who will herald them as one of the best and most twisted underground metal bands hailing from America.