Californian doom/black metal band Barren Altar released their new album »Bound By Impermanence«; out now via Transylvanian Recordings!

Santa Rosa, California based doom/black metal band Barren Altar is back with their new album, »Bound By Impermanence«, which was just released on June 20th, 2025 via Transylvanian Recordings.

Tracklist:
01. The Rust Plains
02. Sulfurous Exhalations
03. A Landfill Of Molted Flesh
04. No Exit

Courtesy of Transylvanian Recordings:

After 7 long years the Sonoma County titans of doom, Barren Altar return with a crushing new album that is a suffocating wave of suffering. »Bound By Impermanence« is a sonic offering of anguish, misery, and cataclysm. Since »Entrenched In The Faults Of The Earth« was unleashed, the land that the band calls home has been ravaged and devastated by wildfires, both in nature and from despicable arsons. Imagine having to frantically evacuate your home on a whim to seek shelter with hundreds of thousands of others in your community, losing your most treasured belongings, becoming homeless in the blink of an eye, realizing that tens of thousands of scared animals are burned alive and feeling absolutely helpless. These are some of the emotions channeled into the creation of this album. »Bound By Impermanence« is cathartic for the sake of catharsis, it’s angry, emotional and a cry to the void.

Cassette available now from Transylvanian Recordings: transylvanianrecordings.bandcamp.com

Written by Barren Altar.
Recorded, mixed, and produced by Anthony Garcia and Barren Altar in Sebastopol, California 2023.
Drums recorded by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California 2023.
Mastered by Patrick Hills at Earthtone Studios in Sacramento, California 2024.
Artwork by Matt Stikker.

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well