Phobocosm

Phobocosm

Foreordained

Dark Descent

***ON LIMITED BLUE MARBLE VINYL!!! Montréal’s Phobocosm continue their career-spanning collaboration with Dark Descent Records with third full-length Foreordained. Foreordained is an amalgamation of everything that came before it. A perfectly balanced fusion of the murky death metal depravity of debut Deprived, blended with the devastating doom of Bringer Of Drought. Remarkably, this was the plan all along: “When we wrote Deprived, we decided that our first three albums would be a trilogy, so Foreordained is the last chapter of that trilogy. We made a conscious effort to pace all three albums in a similar manner, since we wanted them to be linked—starting with a slow, crushing doom song and concluding with a long, epic, depressive one. It’s not a coincidence,” reveals guitarist Samuel Dufour. As their genre of choice would suggest, Foreordained’s lyrical concepts are about death, as well as the futility of denying one’s inherent mortality. Hence the name of the album; meaning predestined, inevitable: “Since death is unavoidable, the end of all life and of our planet is also unavoidable, so there are apocalyptic themes also. The closer ‘For an Aeon’ is about a possible way the world as we know it could end.” Wrapped in artwork by the inimitable Lauri Laaksonen of Desolate Shrine, Convocation and Pestilent Hex fame, Foreordained is set to be a 2024 death metal highlight.

Phobocosm

Bringer Of Drought

Dark Descent

Montreal's Phobocosm has returned from the abyss with another offering of oppressive and ambient death metal. The band's newest album, Bringer Of Drought, is an exploration into uncharted darkness. A deeper and more intense experience than its 2014 predecessor, Deprived, Bringer Of Drought features 35 minutes of soul-reaping, doom-infused death. Mixed and mastered by Colin Marston. Bringer Of Drought was unleashed May 13 on Dark Descent Records.

Phobocosm

Deprived

Dark Descent

The long-awaited debut full-length from Montreal's Phobocosm is upon us. Several years in the making, Deprived is a suffocating and beastly dark death metal album with injections of doom, black and ambient elements throughout. Eight songs, 47 minutes. 16 page booklet, with gatefold jacket.