Ungraven Announce Hollows Made Homes in Their Sunken Cheeks Out April 18
Posted in Whathaveyou on January 17th, 2025 by JJ KoczanJust where the malevolent drone wrought by Ungraven resides in terms of genre, I don’t really care. Call it whatever want, it remains doomed as fuck. Following suit from Jon Davis‘ main outfit Conan in signing with Heavy Psych Sounds, Ungraven have set an April 18 release for their two-songer LP, Hollows Made Homes in Their Sunken Cheeks. The first single from the record is a six-and-a-half-minute church-organ-laced feedback hummer from Davis and cohort multi-synth-specialist/vocalist David Penny called “Nothing is Less Than Zero Part 1,” which in its full course runs 21 minutes. So, a snippet, then. Fun!
Be ready for consuming darkness, but “Nothing is Less Than Zero” does hint at some human presence with vocoder vocals tucked away in its mix amid the sprawling desolate landscape of what sounds like black stained glass. That’s not nothing in such a swallow-you-whole aural context. Needless to say — yet here I am saying it — that this kind of extremity isn’t for everybody, but even if it’s not what you’re using to score the background of your dinner party (if it is, invite me), it’s easy to appreciate the depths to which Ungraven seem set to plunge.
April’s a ways off, and hopefully I’ll have more to come on this one before then. For now, the PR wire:
UK experimental heavy drone duo UNGRAVEN (w/ Jon Davis of Conan) to release new album “Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks” on Heavy Psych Sounds.
UK heavy droney experimental duo UNGRAVEN (with Jon Davis of Conan) have signed to Heavy Psych Sounds for the April 18th release of their new album “Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks”.
Ungraven is a celebration of the nastier side of heavy music, the dirty noise metal and industrial heaviness that is sorely under-represented in this scene, progressing forward to crushing drone laced with ambient eeriness. On their new album “Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks”, Jon Davis (Conan) and David Perry (formerly of The Laez, Conan & Dead Void) launch a glacial barrage of heaviness, using synths, keys, organ, vocoder and guitar, conjuring images of social decline projected across imagined landscapes of a ruined future.
“Nothing Is Less Than Zero” rips open a void between worlds, where dark cinematic soundscapes drip into a bleeding heaviness. Gone is the traditional metal framework of their previous records: instead, Davis and Perry conjure a sickening symphony of guitar and dronesque synth that carves universe-shaped holes through your skull. No beats. No lyrics but some messages issued by doomed robots. No mercy. The atmosphere itself speaks volumes as layers of sound gradually build the tension, diving deeper and heavier into synthesizer realms where restrained forces lurk beneath the surface. Like threatening vessels silently hovering overhead, it teeters on the brink of psychedelic spheres, a haunting progression culminating into nothing but nothingness. While we all knew Ungraven could unleash hell, “Nothing Is Less Than Zero” reveals something more profound: the ability to control it.
The band comments: “Pillars of granite burst forth from the earth. Their looming presence forcing frozen awe upon all that stand beneath. Impenetrable shadows suffocate and disorientate, as the monoliths continue to plough endlessly into the infinite. Shrouded by black, forever turns into never, and we are overwhelmed and dizzied into nausea by the unimaginably colossal nature of Nothingness.”
“Hollows Made Homes In Their Sunken Cheeks” will be released worldwide on April 18th, with LP and CD preorders available now via Heavy Psych Sounds.
Ungraven “Hollows Made Homes in Their Sunken Cheeks”
Out April 18th on Heavy Psych Sounds
TRACKLIST:
1. Nothing Is Less Than Zero – 21:03
2. Hollows Made Home – 22:19
UNGRAVEN is
Jon Davis – guitars
David Perry – synth/organ/keys/vocals
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