Sunday, July 19, 2015

Album release: Destroyer of the Icon


After nearly a year since we started the recording process, we're proud and excited to finally unveil to the entire world our debut album: "Destroyer of the Icon".

We can now rest on our laurels for a brief moment and pat ourselves on the back after this accomplishment. It's difficult to express with mere words everything I'm thinking as I type this, but it's hard to imagine that over two and a half years ago I would envision forming a band from the ground up as an outlet for the death metal, black metal, and grind side of my songwriting, being primarily inspired by bands such as Behemoth, Morbid Angel, Decapitated, Nile, Pig Destroyer, etc. It's also hard to imagine that said band would also go on to play as many shows as it has, sharing the stage with many local and national bands thus far in our relatively short time together as a band, let alone finally releasing an album of original material.

Throughout the ups and downs we and all bands alike experience, we persevere and push forward always striving towards bigger and better things. This is a great accomplishment for us not just because it's our music, but the mere notion that a lot of bands will come and go without as much as getting out of the garage to play a show in their home town.

Instead of  rambling on too much about every single minute detail of what transpired during the recording, I'll summarize by saying that perhaps the part about the whole ordeal that we're proudest of is the fact that we kept it relatively raw and completely devoid of programmed drums. In other words, it sounds exactly like a real band, played by human beings. Not to criticize bands that choose to use those tools, but it was of paramount importance that the recording truly reflected how we really sound as a band, and we feel that we surpassed even our own expectations.

Without further ado, it is now available on our Bandcamp page for streaming and digital download. Physical copies will be available within the next few days, be sure to pick one up from us at a show or just hit us up! Check it out now by visiting www.amenthes.info

Now that we've got that out of the way, we have been relatively busy with plenty of other things outside of the recording process leading up to this.


May 30, 2015: we rented a minivan, crammed all our gear and ourselves inside and set about on our maiden voyage as a band to the S.F. Bay Area for not just a guerilla promo blitz at Rasputin and Amoeba Music in the city and in Berkeley but also our maiden performance in the region at Burnt Ramen in Richmond. In spite of three of the bands dropping off the show within the week, we still played there with our pals from Obastra, Hemotoxin, and The Know Nothings. It was a fun-filled trip to say the very least, and it was refreshing to receive a great response from a crowd completely unfamiliar with us and our music. We hope to be back up there soon!


June 13, 2015: we were asked to open for the mighty Goatwhore, Black Breath, Ringworm, and Theories alongside our pals Catharsus from Visalia at Strummer's. It was a kick-ass show with a lot of friends in attendance, and dare I say that we all felt like rock stars after a bunch of people requested we autograph the demo CD's and show posters we were handing out! One of the major highlights of the night was the current bassist of Goatwhore, T.A., commenting to me on how much he really enjoyed our music, in particular Thine Enemies Vanquished and Codex Gigas. It's not every day you receive hefty compliments from anybody in the touring/headlining bands, let alone have catching your set, so I feel very proud of that.

Another interesting tidbit about this show: I was on standby to host Theories for the night in the event they decided to not make the drive to L.A. after the show. It would've been fun to have them crash at my pad, but in retrospect I'm kinda glad they didn't take me up on the offer because the air conditioning in my apartment was acting up that weekend, and I can't imagine they would've gotten a good night's sleep with our summer weather here in Fresno.



June 20, 2015: we decided kinda last minute to play with our pals at a backyard pool party, hosted by our buddy Vince from Mystism. Another fun night to hang out with our buddies, although the only downside was Alfred had to work really late, so we had to do the set the best we could as a four piece.


Coming up this Saturday in Bakersfield at Babylon (no relation to the Babylon in Fresno), we were hit up by my buddy Eddie from Zombestial. We've always been wanting to get down there as well as explore uncharted waters for us there and elsewhere, and we're excited to be sharing the stage with two bands from North Hollywood (Leprous and Social Overload) and two locals (Meta Tempest and Rock N' Roll Is The Devil's Music). Major props to Johnny from Fiend and Goreshack for recommending us on this one!

Well there you have it, folks. I'll return and report later after we play in Bako, and we leave you with the simple instruction once again to check out our new album on Bandcamp. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. So check it out, and let us know your thoughts!

-Pierce

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