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“In Gloom’s Gorge” is the new single from California-based dark metal duo MEFITIS. Now streaming everywhere, the track is the latest harbinger preceding the band’s third album, The Skorian // The Greyleer, nearing release on Profound Lore records.
MEFITIS’ The Skorian // The Greyleer was created and is delivered in a specific two-part method. The album’s first four movements, comprising The Skorian, were recorded to analog tape during 2021 and 2022 at Emberdusk Studio, and the corresponding four songs of The Greyleer were recorded to analog tape during 2022 and 2023 at Emberdust Studio B, with additional songwriting by Severin (Cameron Wade). Once digitized and mixed by MEFITIS, the album was mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio (Chthe’ilist, Suffering Hour, Pallbearer) and fitted with a gothic painting by Billy Norrby and additional art by Catarina Putri, Saheefa Mustafa, and Forest Hughes.
This second preview track is called “In Gloom’s Gorge,” which represents the second chapter of this MEFITIS release, The Greyleer. While the first half of the record reaffirms the dark metal past, The Greyleer claws its four appendages in diverging directions towards possible futures. These songs are not as much gothic horror tales, but more expressionistic explorations of the very urges underlying dark metal. A song for one restless, as though lying upon a sphere.
MEFITIS’ “In Gloom’s Gorge” is now streaming everywhere including YouTube HERE and other digital platforms HERE.
The Skorian // The Greyleer will be released November 29th on LP, CD, and digitally. Find preorders, presaves, merch, and more where “The Untwined One” is also streaming at Profound Lore HERE.
MEFITIS is a dark metal endeavor dedicated to venturing the shadowy depths and desolate expanses of musical expression. Formed by Pendath and Vatha in 2007, MEFITIS would from day one embody a metallic maelstrom intruding on the defined boundaries of extreme music. After some fallow years, the duo emerged to realize their dark metal vision with the 2019 full-length Emberdawn. This record put forth their signature style of boundless songwriting across black and death metal, telling parables of degradation and savagery in both lyrics and the very music itself. The kindling now sparked, MEFITIS returned in 2021 with their follow-up in Offscourings. Here they would expand further on the possibilities of dark metal, exploring gloomier climes and thornier guitar arrangements. In addition, the band solidified a conceptual framework for the music to occupy, known as Skoria. In this parallel world out of time, the music, themes, and imagery could exist as ideas unto themselves rather than mere simulacra.
And so, MEFITIS brings you their newest work: a duology in grey titled The Skorian // The Greyleer. Initially conceived as an experiment for analog tape, the new record is informed by the constraints and particular character of that medium. Every piece of sound you will hear was initially tracked to tape and then digitized and mixed by the band. The dual title is indicative of the two halves, which were recorded in separate time spans and studio locations. However, The Skorian and The Greyleer are reflections of each other, and can be appreciated both in parts and in whole. Where past works looked outward to an ashen world, this new release contemplates its own crumbling edifice. It calls into question the very notion of one’s ‘self’ as an entity in thrall to its master. Witness now this loathing gallery and join the grey.
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