Lithuanian dark post-metal band Aortes premiere their new album »Devouring Gloom«, out today in digital format!

Vilnius, Lithuania based dark post-metal band Aortes premiere their new album, »Devouring Gloom«, which was just released today, February 28th, 2023.

The band comments: “»Devouring Gloom« out now! So today is the big day. We finally did it. Our new album »Devouring Gloom« is finally out on all the streaming platforms and on our Bandcamp. It took us only 4 years to come up with a new album… but here we are. As we are facing small delays with physical release – all the pre-orders will be shipped as soon as we receive them from the pressing plant.”

Tracklist:
01. While I Wilt
02. Lay My Bones
03. Devouring Gloom
04. Something In The Way (Nirvana cover)
05. With Me Forever
06. Crown Of Nails
07. Salvation
08. Immersion

Aortes is a four-piece dark and chaotic post-metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania.

Aortes (previously known as Autism) started out in 2012 as an instrumental solo project of guitarist Tomhetas. »The Crawling Chaos« (2013) proved to be the start of a string of releases that showed a heavier sound, a consistent concern for storylines, and an ambitious conceptual vision.

In 2016 they became a full line-up live band and recorded »Film Noir« (2017), a dark and invasive opus dealing with alcoholism, drugs, and physical and psychological abuse. In »Have You Found Peace?« (2019), a conceptual album, the band teamed up with Krzysztof from the post-metal act ROSK who became the first vocal performer in the history of the band.

In 2021 Andrius has joined the band to take full-time vocal duties after appearing on the band’s latest single »Immersion« (2021). At the moment the band is working hard on new material which is planned to be released soon.

Photo by Rokas.photos

About »Devouring Gloom«, the band says: “We are really excited to finally put out a new album. It has been quite a rough time for the band: the lineup has changed which led to the change of the sound of the band, which led to the change of the band name completely. The pandemic took over the world and put all of our plans in slow motion. At times it felt like it had been one step forward and two steps back, so it took us almost four years to make »Devouring Gloom«. But it is finally finished and it seems that with this release we have finally managed to properly channel our creative vision. This darker, more dissonant and chaotic sound felt like a natural evolution of Aortes.

The central themes of the album deal with the struggle of the overwhelming feeling of despair, hopelessness, loneliness – or as we thought of it – a gloom that surrounds and devours you. Sometimes you find the strength to fight it off, other times you admit defeat. But there is always hope.”

Pre-order vinyl editions here: aortes.bandcamp.com/album/devouring-gloom

Aortes is:
Andrius Šinkūnas (Red Water) – Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers
Tomas Daniševskis – Guitars
Linas (Red Water) – Bass
Domantas Lekavičius (Gilzeh) – Drums

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