A solo-project of Oli “Arachnid” Mason, Visions From Beyond released its Eternally Bound, Whipped by Time tape earlier this year through Dry Cough Records and will follow on Nov. 1 with the four-song EP, Drawing Down the Darkness. Beginning with the raw gutturalism of “Re-Animator” — shout to Jeffrey Combs — and proceeding into its title-track, the circa-20-minute release blends grim extremity of death metal with an underlying riffiness of purpose. Mason‘s vocals are barely decipherable as such; it is more grunt than even growl, but righteously animalistic in any case, and even as “Drawing Down the Darkness” finds him shifting into a claws-up howl amid blastbeats and thrashing whirlwinds, there’s a central groove maintained that continues into “Confronting the Adversary” and the crashing “Lord of Flies,” both of which refuse to take a side in the eternal balance between death and doom and death-doom and doom-death.

One way or the other, Visions From Beyond is coated in dirt. Specifically graveyard dirt, and probably a specific old-ass graveyard in Bristol at that. “Lord of Flies” was released as a single ahead of the EP’s post-Halloween arrival, but I’ll tell you outright that it’s going to be too extreme for most ears. I don’t say that as a dare; it’s just a simple fact. And for an imprint that often celebrates brutality at the expense of the accessible, it makes a fitting 50th release for Dry Cough. Kudos.

Info from the PR wire:

VISIONS FROM BEYOND – Drawing Down the Darkness

Dry Cough has once again delved into the ancient cosmic abyss to bring you the harrowing new EP from Visions From Beyond.

Following hot on the heels of the well received release of debut cassette, ‘Eternally Bound, Whipped By Time”, Visions From Beyond have conjured four more tracks of murky & desolate death-doom, riddled with weighty riffs and ethereal guitar lines, just in time for the bleakest time of year.

Dark times are best soundtracked by the darkest music.

Drawing Down The Darkness will be released on cassette on 1st November 2021.

Tracklisting:
1. Re-Animator 4:24
2. Drawing Down the Darkness 5:46
3. Confronting the Adversary 4:52
4. Lord of Flies 5:14

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