Canadian black metal/sludge act Blood Brain Barrier announces debut EP »Windows Drenched In Red«; first single »Testing The Waters« out now!
Ontario, Canada based black metal/sludge act Blood Brain Barrier has announced their debut EP, »Windows Drenched In Red«, which will see the light on July 29th, 2025.
Watch a visualizer video for the first single »Testing The Waters« below!
Tracklist:
01. Testing The Waters
02. Windows Drenched In Red
03. Seek Nothing Destroy Everything
04. Desire To Be Thoughtless
Courtesy of The Metallist PR:
Canadian black metal/sludge duo Blood Brain Barrier is excited to reveal that its debut EP, entitled »Windows Drenched In Red«, will be released July 29th on the main digital streaming platforms.
»Windows Drenched In Red« is a conceptual plunge into the psyche of a purposeless entity adrift between dimensions. Blending elements of black metal, ambient despair, and fractured melodies, the album chronicles the entity’s chaotic intrusion into the human realm. As it stirs unrest and distorts perception, it becomes a mirror to humanity’s own violent footprint across unseen, lesser realms.
You can have a foretaste of the EP with the opener »Testing The Waters« available as a visualizer video on the band’s YouTube channel!
Alternatively, you can stream/download the song on Bandcamp, Spotify or Apple Music.
Each track of »Windows Drenched In Red« is a window through which listeners glimpse the cycles of suffering we inflict and inherit. Yet, as the entity ascends beyond mortal comprehension, it too becomes trapped in the same existential void: a being without aim, reflecting the same chaos it once revealed. This is not just music – it’s a confrontation with the abstract, the unseen, and the inevitable loss of meaning in the search for higher ground.
Emerging from the liminal spaces between doom and transcendence, Blood Brain Barrier is a blackened doom sludge metal project that blends crushing sonic weight with cerebral exploration. The two-piece outfit is composed of Isabelle Tazbir on vocals and Mrudul Kamble, who commands guitar, drums, and bass with equal intensity. Together, they craft sprawling, dissonant compositions that channel raw emotion through a lens of conceptual abstraction.
Drawing inspiration from genre-defying pioneers like Wolves In The Throne Room, Opeth, Thou, SubRosa and Krallice, the band fuses the atmospheric expanse of black metal with the oppressive density of sludge, creating music that is as meditative as it is punishing. Their sound is ritualistic, a slow-burning immolation built on textured riffs, layered rhythms, and visceral vocal incantations.
Lyrically and thematically, Blood Brain Barrier navigates the fractured borderlands between the physical and the metaphysical – where inner turmoil mirrors societal collapse, and spiritual decay reflects in ecological ruin. The band delves into abstract concepts – identity dissolution, entropy, liminality, and psychic fragmentation – yet these themes often echo real-world anxieties and existential dread.
Blood Brain Barrier isn’t just a band – it’s a descent, a meditation, a confrontation with the void. In their music, catharsis is both a weapon and a wound.
»Windows Drenched In Red« was recorded, mixed and mastered by Mrudul Kamble at Erb Street Recording, Waterloo, ON (Canada). Artwork and logo by Mrudul Kamble.
Blood Brain Barrier is:
Isabelle Tazbir – Vocals
Mrudul Kamble – Guitars, Drums, Bass
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well