out July 3: Convocation

Say, friend, do you happen to have some free time? Great! We hope that you have 13 minutes and 38 seconds to get your next awesome party started. Now, this party is going to be a little different, but that's ok, because you're different, and this Finnish entity known as Convocation is also different, so it's all good. Let's begin with the song "The Absence of Grief" (from the album Ashes Coalesce) that sounds exactly like the opposite of the title because this is funeral doom of the deathly kind and it sounds like a whole lot of doom grief. This song has deep growling but in some spots it has melodic singing, actually. It is funeral doom that is done well and it should be pleasing to the fans of the style. The song itself is incontrovertible evidence that this Finnish small legion of doom knows their craft well. Anyway, check it out for yourself and if you like hype, you will also like the official propaganda by the intergalactic federation of hype that we are relaying to you. Let the fun in funeral doom begin now!

We're honored the announce that Iconic Finnish duo Convocation has joined the Sentient Ruin family to release their staggering sophomore LP "Ashes Coalesce" on vinyl in North America (with Everlasting Spew Records handling the release in Europe), a colossal dirge of soul-crushing funeral/death doom standing high as one of the most accomplished expressions in the genre this year. Following in the footsteps of works by bands like Evoken, Asunder, Thergothon, Skepticism, and Tyranny,"Ashes Coalesce" is a monumental sonic devourment where slow-moving atmospheric death metal and void-sculpting extreme doom collide to signal the onset of oblivion and resound one of the most lightless and soul-consuming expressions of sonic abandon the genre has seen in the latter part of this decade. Like a massive maelstrom slowly circling a lightless void, the colossal album assumes form through a slow-moving morass of telluric drums, crushing guitars and bass, and guttural spectral vocals emanating from beyond a veil, that suck all light out of their surroundings and slowly encircle the listener immersing them into a suffocating abyss of levitating agony and inescapable hopelessness. Within the churning mass of oppressive distortion and hallucinogenic soundscapes lies a connective tissue of strings, synths, organs, and orchestrations that thread the listener's demise as the suffocating atmospheres condense and crawl to a climax, assuming a sense of inescapability and multidimensionality that ultimately surround and crush the listener into forty minutes of awe-inducing sonic immensity that deceive thee senses and defy logic.

Ashes Coalesce by Convocation