Exclusive Track Premiere: Fossilization’s “Disentombed And Reassembled By The Ages”
Long before the first brow ridge jutted above Australopithecine eyes, terrible lizards ruled the world with no need for large brains, opposable thumbs, or progressive time signatures. After a particularly bad day on the Yucatán Peninsula, the dinosaurs were gone: encased in ash; slick with silt and hidden from the light for 66 million years. In our current day, paleontologists excavate these preserved remains, piecing them together for the education, curiosity, and awe of their viewers. The folks in Fossilization are well-regarded academics in the field of ancient death, and today we’re proud to unveil the findings of their latest survey, “Disentombed And Reassembled By The Ages.”
The track breaks bedrock with a scrape of dissonance and jackhammer blasts, imparting a claustrophobic weight on the listener. This style of blackened death—approaching war metal with its breathless intensity—can outstay its welcome, but the song quickly reveals its stratified structure. Mosh-friendly OSDM gives way to groovy death/doom in the vein of Nightfell and an abrasive (yet highly addictive) breakdown that entrances even as it disgusts. By the time the isolated double kick outro arrives (I’m reminded of Nile‘s “User Maat Re”) it’s clear Fossilization has taken up the death metal mantle.
Guitarist/vocalist V. had the following to say about the band’s second LP, Advent of Wounds:
From the start, my goal was to make an album even more brutal than Leprous Daylight, from sheer death metal brutality to the miserable melancholy of the doom-laden spirit of early Anathema, Paradise Lost, and early Katatonia. You can also hear many black metal influences across the record, the opening riff of “Disentombed and Reassembled by the Ages” is a direct nod to one of my all-time favorite bands, Antaeus.
Advent of Wounds releases February 13 through Everlasting Spew Records.
