LYCHGATE
PRECIPICE - CD
UPC: 652733397621
Label: DEBEMUR MORTI PROD.
Format: CD
Release Date: December 19, 2025
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The sublime 4th full-length from UK avant-Black/Death Metal band LYCHGATE advances the kinetic potency of their 2020 DMP-debut EP, “Also sprach Futura”, to a frightening level of mind-mangling intensity.
“Precipice” is progressive Extreme Metal plummeting inside a black hole: scorching, twisted and transfixing. The band have upped both the dystopic prog-Death quotient and their sense of experimentation, moving with formidable, mechanised poise and a surrealist’s sense of dread.
LYCHGATE layer fusion riffs, leads and rhythms into skewed melodic entanglements which erupt into strident bludgeon – balefully contrasted with spacious, keyboard-led, classical/jazz-inflected passages rich with tension-heavy dynamics. The players bursting forth in a rush of devastatingly claustrophobic vocals and finely-honed avant-Black Metal mastery.
Interweaving literary, philosophical, and cinematic influences, “Precipice” is conceptually based on E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops” (1909) – a story of humanity’s underground existence and total dependence on a god-like machine – and also draws from Plato’s ‘allegory of the cave’, H. G. Wells’ “A Story of the Days to Come”, and T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”.
Recommended if you like: DODHEIMSGARD, EMPEROR, THANTIFAXATH, ABIGOR
TRACK LIST:
01 Introduction – The Sleeper Awakes 02:32
02 Mausoleum of Steel 04:41
03 Renunciation 05:01
04 The Meeting of Orion and Scorpio 04:31
05 Hive of Parasites 09:58
06 Death’s Twilight Kingdom 07:21
07 Terror Silence 04:07
08 Anagnorisis 06:35
09 Pangaea 03:01
