out April 2: Karma Violens -- extreme metal from Greece

The contemporary extreme metal band Karma Violens is now streaming three songs from the fourth album Mount of the Congregation. The three compositions are a good example of the type of fast, heavy extreme metal that they are doing in 2021. They prefer the contemporary sound for their music, and are not a retro type of extreme metal, even though the music goes fast and headbanging. Metal Archives says that they began in 2002 as a metalcore band, but nowadays have certainly moved on from metalcore or whatever their music was in the early days.

Karma Violens

Mount of the Congregation

2 April 2021

ABOUT: Greek extreme metal horde KARMA VIOLENS are set to return with their fourth full-length album, Mount of the Congregation. The band’s most straightforward release to date, Mount of the Congregation features 13 tracks of scathing blackened death/thrash. Mount of the Congregation was recorded and mixed by KARMA VIOLENS at Symbolic Studios and mastered Hertz Studios (Behemoth, Decapitated). Artwork for the album was created by Remedy Art Design(Evergrey, Suffocation, Oceans of Slumber). If you believe in karma then you have to believe that violence is something innate in every human or inhuman being. Karma in the old and now Indian religions is the concept of "action" understood which creates the entire cycle of cause and effect. Violence from the other hand, is inside in each one of us, some people can control it and others cannot, but in every occasion it is a part of human nature. Living in the modern world, all of us can witness violence on the streets and in every aspect of our everyday lives. The combination of KARMA VIOLENS describes the action and reaction of violence, as every action in these brutal days creates a violent response. KARMA VIOLENS has been active in the Greek metal scene since 2002. The band has shared the stage with some of metal’s biggest names, including Judas Priest, Amon Amarth, Opeth, Fear Factory and Testament.

Mount of the Congregation by Karma Violens