Official press release:
Here we find ourselves, among the Canadian miscreants Egregore whereupon they return from whence the wind howls like a damned choir and the Earth knows no master, to chart a broader sonic wilderness via It Echoes In The Wild. And much as sea-rogues and freebooters sought fortune upon blackened waters, so too does Egregore venture musically into diabolic and ungoverned lands.
Presenting something more expansive, elemental, and untamed on It Echoes In The Wild, the early occult black death metal lunacy of Egregore – uniting members of Mitochondrion, Reversed, Ruinous Power, formerly of Auroch, and more – embraces atmospheric breadth equally alongside primitive force to delve deep into not only geographic wilds, but the psychological, esoteric and spiritual hinterlands at the edges of complete madness. Dark invocations and secret tongues draw forth echoes from forest and fen, cave and cliff, tempting the temporally tethered to receive the curse, all the while driven by a primal, unknowable sardonic menace.
Though the voyage be perilous, to succumb to It Echoes In The Wild is to become ensconced in a lawless dominion of the soul in service of a higher call. Mirroring nature’s unbridled forces and the hidden echoes that dwell within, Egregore’s second album takes the band’s mystical insanity and magickal perversion to the edge of the abyss and plunges forward.
It Echoes In The Wild was engineered and recorded by Mariessa McLeod, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Blood Incantation, Dream Unending, Tomb Mold), and completed with cover art by Luciana Lupe, illustration and layout by Dipayan Das, and logo by Karmazid. The result is an album prime for fans of Nocturnus, Morbid Angel, King Diamond, Samael, Superstition, Angelcorpse, Mortuary Drape, Necrophobic, Absu, and The Chasm.
The video for “Stair Into The Vortex” was directed and edited by Christopher Lazar.
The band’s Catastrophe Saturna proclaims:
“Let us be your magnificent psycopompii as we guide you down the stairway – mind your step – and into the vortex. This way you will be prepared for the initial confrontation with the journey into the great unknown, uncharted. Relax; we have some more unique tricks up our sleeves, but this isn’t one of them. No! This is the Egregore in its most unadulterated form: raucous, ribald, ripe, seasick, and yearning for ascendency. Don’t fret! The mad strangeness and unexpected twists and turns will be plentiful as you strain to hear the Echoes in the Wild.”
20 Buck Spin will release It Echoes In The Wild on LP, CD, and digital platforms on March 20th. Pre-orders can be placed at the label webshop and Bandcamp.
Additional previews of the album are to be expected.
It Echoes In The Wild track listing:
- “Cast Adrift”
- “Voice On The West Wind”
- “Stair Into The Vortex”
- “Craven Acts Of Desperate Men”
- “From The Yawning Crevasse Shrieks A Transmorphic Gale”
- “Corsairs Of The Daath Gulf”
- “Nightmare Cartographer”
- “Six Doors Guard The Original Knowledges”
- “Servants Of The Second Death”
- “It Echoes In The Wild”
