{"id":124963,"date":"2024-12-09T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/?p=124963"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:25:29","slug":"exclusive-track-premiere-fleshbores-target-fixation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/exclusive-track-premiere-fleshbores-target-fixation\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Track Premiere: Fleshbore&#8217;s &#8220;Target Fixation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><i>Celestial Mechanics\u00a0<\/i>for the Tech Death Soul.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On January 24, 2025, Naptown tech-death maniacs <strong>Fleshbore <\/strong>will release <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fleshboreband.bandcamp.com\/album\/painted-paradise\">Painted Paradise,<\/a><\/em> their sophomore LP and first for industry titans <strong>Transcending Obscurity Records<\/strong>. Featuring current and former members of acts <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/tech-death-thursday-abiotic-and-demon-king\/\">Demon King<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Global Plague<\/strong>, <strong>Green Leaves<\/strong>, and <strong>Into the Divine<\/strong>, Fleshbore is a collection of young musicians who are otherwise long in the tooth in the proggy, melodic technical death metal that does not lack for ripping, raging riffage you\u2019d more often find in the brutal death metal section of the record store. <strong>Robin Stone <\/strong>(<strong>Evilyn<\/strong>, <strong>Norse<\/strong>) even joins the affair as the band\u2019s session drummer, providing a mad hand on the skins.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far, we\u2019ve been treated to lead singles \u201cInadequate\u201d and \u201cLaplace\u2019s Game.\u201d The former, anything but its namesake, stacks a few brow-flattening riffs onto each other while Michael O\u2019Hara bellows brazenly along. O\u2019Hara\u2019s performance across the album is notable, as he shifts the speed and register of his delivery as quickly as Stone alters the direction of the track with a new fill or change in tempo. \u201cLaplace\u2019s Game\u201d begins similarly aggressive to \u201cInadequate,\u201d calling to mind <strong>Archspire<\/strong> and <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Zenith Passage<\/strong>. There\u2019s plenty of melody peeking, though it\u2019s not till the 1:35 mark that the band treats listeners to the virtuoso bass-walking experience they might be expecting from such tech death. A reprieve as brief as it is beautiful, as we\u2019re just as quickly back to a band screaming like an alien meteor across the fire-illumined sky. There\u2019s a great diversity in the kind of riffs Chav and McGinley stitch together, the two playing off each other and harmonizing expertly.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we\u2019re thrilled to premiere <em>Painted Paradise<\/em>\u2019s third single, \u201cTarget Fixation.\u201d The track opens with O\u2019Hara fully outside of his mind, where he\u2019ll stay for most of the track, employing an absolutely rapid-fire delivery, dropping down to roaring gutturals and rising to throat-shredding rasps with seeming abandon. Not to be outdone, the rest of the band rips through the fastest, heaviest, catchiest riffs we\u2019ve heard so far. \u201cTarget Fixation\u201d is technical, brutal, and expertly crafted with not one piece out of place. The band&#8217;s knack for melody is embedded in some of the speedier riffs, but there&#8217;s no respite as there is in &#8220;Laplace&#8217;s Game.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t meteors tearing through the sky; this is foreign objects slamming into the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>About the track, the band has this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">As the target appears in the distance, our objective becomes clear.<br \/>\nWe know what must be done. Listen to \u2018Target Fixation.\u2019<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>No arguments from me! There\u2019s simply nothing left to do but jam play on \u201cTarget Fixation\u201d below, head over to Fleshbore\u2019s bandcamp to check the other two singles, and then express rush that pre-order to your ever-expanding galaxy brain. You\u2019re a philosopher and a poet, an astronomer mathematician. You\u2019re Pierre-Simon Laplace incarnate. At least, you will be once you hear <em>Painted Paradise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_80483\"  width=\"320\" height=\"240\"  data-origwidth=\"320\" data-origheight=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AROLP_dAu5M?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Painted Paradise <em>is out <a href=\"https:\/\/fleshboreband.bandcamp.com\/album\/painted-paradise\">January 24, 2025<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Don&#8217;t let Mark Erskine&#8217;s beautiful, placid album art fool you.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The sky will rain riffs on you.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Buy the album and the merch!<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celestial Mechanics\u00a0for the Tech Death Soul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":124970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Fleshbore premiere? 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