Dark Worship Releasing Debut Album Flesh of a Saint Feb. 25
Harsh industrialist outfit Dark Worship will make its debut on Tartarus Records Feb. 25 with the six-song Flesh of a Saint. The project is spearheaded by Cleveland, Ohio-based J. Meyers, also known for his guitar work in Axioma, and though the record only runs 20 minutes long, that’s enough for pieces like “Culling Song” and “Destroy Forever (Death of Ra)” to cast their impression in brutal ambience and grim outlook.
The bite of opener “We’ve Always Been Here” and the sprawl of drone in the subsequent title-cut — for which a video is streaming and on which Aaron Dallison, also of Axioma, guests — isn’t to be understated, and between them they set the scope with which the rest of what follows plays out, from the percussive intensity of “Hollow Body” to the classically cinematic “Well of Light” at the finish, with no shortage of intensity along the way. It’s 20 minutes, but it’s a deep dive just the same.
The PR wire brought details and multi-media fare for the digging:
Dark Worship – US Post-industrial Practitioners Announce New Album “Flesh of A Saint”
Reveal Visualizer Video For Title Track
Tartarus Records is proud to announce the release of US post-industrial practitioners Dark Worship debut album, “Flesh of A Saint” on February 25th on limited tape cassette and vinyl.
Emerging from the bleak and unsettling landscape of the post-industrial American Midwest in 2020, Dark Worship is a collective orchestrated by J. Meyers (Axioma, Aureae Crucis) with the vocal assistance of Aaron Dallison (Axioma, Keelhaul, Brain Tentacles, Perdition Sect), Nathan Opposition (Ancient VVisdom, Integrity), and J. Reed (Exorcisme, To Dust) as an instrument to conjure the essence of sonic darkness.
Flesh of a Saint is the title track off the upcoming album featuring Aaron Dallison (Axioma, Brain Tentacles, Keelhaul) on vocals and a pulsating industrial soundscape. The accompanying video visualizer is an AI-generated surrealist landscape that was recorded reacting/morphing to the music track.
‘Flesh of a Saint’ embodies the spirit of early Release Entertainment by combining extreme metal’s abrasiveness with the industrious prowess of Scorn, Brighter Death Now, Candiru, and early Swans. Featuring contributions of members from Axioma, Ancient VVisdom, To Dust, Exorcisme, and Perdition Sect – Dark Worship embraces its roots in the industrial metal underground of Cleveland, OH where elements of metal, punk, industrial, and other forms of extreme music have been colliding for decades to form a unique and haunting voice. Reflecting the bleak, daunting, and abysmal environment that spawned its forebearers, Dark Worship erupted during the tumultuous summer of 2020. With an uncertain future musically, socially, and culturally, this collective embarked on a project focused on expressing the horror of the present.
Pre-orders for “Flesh of a Saint” are now available at this location: https://tartarusrecords.com/album/flesh-of-a-saint
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