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*ON OLIVE GREEN WITH ULTRA CLEAR MERGE VINYL!!! Montréal's Phobocosm return with InchGatewayInch, an unrelenting and eldritch death metal opus that seals one chapter while unveiling the next.The album includes material from every songwriting period of the band, some of it dating back to the InchDeprivedInch and InchBringer of DroughtInch eras, as well as InchForeordainedInch, of course,Inch explains guitarist Samuel Dufour.InchGatewayInch was recorded, mixed, and mastered by long-time collaborator Xavier Berthiaume (Gevurah, Sanctvs) during the same session as Foreordained, giving the two records a consistent sonic throughline, while allowing InchGatewayInch to close established narratives. InchWe view it as the closing of a chapter for the band,Inch Dufour continues. InchNot that our future material will be completely different fr-om our existing material, far from it, but we have decided to do things a little differently next time around by adding new elements that haven't appeared in our music before, exploring different dynamics and experimenting with a new tuning.Thematically InchGatewayInch grows from ideas first explored on Foreordained InchThe song 'Revival' from Foreordained inspired the album's theme, which is the fact that humans have been trying to live forever - or to unnaturally prolong life - since the dawn of time, often for reasons even more absurd than the pursuit of eternal life itself,Inch elaborates Dufour.InchWe used this as the main theme and pushed the concept further, exploring the most repulsive forms of cruelty humans are capable of - even when using science as a means to prolong barbarity against their enemies.Inch Visually the album continues Phobocosm's collaboration with Lauri Laaksonen (Desolate Shrine, Convocation, Pestilent Hex). InchFrom looking at it, one can see that it is a gateway to something ominous, but what lies beyond is up
