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Summoning The Slayer

by Temple Of Void

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Battlecat
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Battlecat Been following these guys since their first album, and they never get old; still one of the best Bandcamp finds that I've ever stumbled upon. Just an awesome band. Favorite track: Engulfed.
pinkytheent
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pinkytheent I was braced for another cookie cutter death metal band to underwhelm and hoo boy am I happy to be surprised!! This record churns with the soaring heights of a haunted cathedral plummeting through the floor into the dark waters of the drowned mausoleums below. It does feel like a summoning. Extra points to those chorus effect lines and that bold final song. The death and doom sounds tango effortlessly; can you even say they are different here? Great production, great melodies, great all around! Favorite track: Deathtouch.
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grim Dissolution is akin to a car slamming on its brakes. You have this incredibly dark sludge-ridden doom, and then it just stops. I’m all for experimentation, but this track makes absolutely no sense. But I digress, overall this album is excellent and really doesn’t disappoint. 3 out 5 for the above stated reason.
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Deathtouch 08:07
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Engulfed 07:24
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Dissolution 03:48

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Cave dwellers TEMPLE OF VOID finally return from the inky abyss on their highly anticipated new album, Summoning the Slayer. The critically acclaimed, Michigan-based quintet—featuring Alex Awn (guitars), Don Durr (guitars), Mike Erdody (vocals), Jason Pearce (drums), and Brent Satterly (bass)—hunkered down during the last two years, expanding upon their brand of fusty, artfully brutish death-doom with equal parts process and imagination. The outcome is an album that feels massive yet sepulchral, exploratory yet distinguishable—as if crafted deep below and inspired by all the things (mentally and physically) that come with their subterranean endeavor. Summoning the Slayer creepily evolves TEMPLE OF VOID.

Produced, mixed, and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Sumerlands, Candy, and more,) Summoning the Slayer pairs long-time influences and a bevy of non-metal vectors into hulking columns of heavy and desolation. Focus tracks “Deathtouch,” “Hex Curse,” and “The Transcending Horror” showcases TEMPLE OF VOID’s death-doom at its heights and their massive, crushing lows. But the group’s fourth album is more than that. The album’s capper, “Dissolution,” is one example of the Detroiters stretching out, the song’s ‘70s rock/singer-songwriter motifs hitting The Moody Blues and Nick Drake hard. Lyrically, Summoning the Slayer eschews commonplace horror tropes with a deeper, broader psychological discussion of the self. TEMPLE OF VOID’s ultimate death-doom metal journey is now complete.

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released June 3, 2022

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Temple Of Void Detroit, Michigan

ToV is an uncompromising collaboration from the depths of Detroit. Comprising of musicians who have put in decades of time in the Detroit underground, ToV entered this world with singular focus and methodical execution from the start. ToV harkens back to the somber sound of early British doom, while channeling the energy and devastation of old school American death metal. ToV destroys all. ... more

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