10/12/2013 10:39
Malevolence
Malevolence: 'Antithetical'
Portuguese dark metal band Malevolence have signed with Carbon Medien and the new album 'Antithetical' will be out this year.
Track listing:
1. Slithering (2:55)
2. Cult of the Everlasting (6:18)
3. Devoured Unlimited (4:21)
4. Antithetical (8:12)
5. Equilibrium in Extremis (4:34)
6. Exocortex Momentum (9:27)
7. Mechanisms of Destructiove Behaviour (7:19)
Carbon Medien feels extremely proud of this achievement and the third release for the band, will mark the very first for the label. Says CEO Derek Silver, "I have been a fan of Malevolence since day one and back in 2003 I even had the opportunity to meet Carlos personally in the USA and since then we have been in touch. From the very first time I heard their promotional work 'Celebration of Dysfunctional Becoming' that I knew in advance that they were going to publish the best material since their inception. 'Antithetical' took a while, but for the better, as this album will be reckoned as one of the greatest metal albums of all time coming out of the Portuguese territory! We, at Carbon Medien are looking for a strong cooperation on all levels and we hope our love and dedication to the band will garner them even more recognition than the one they already posses out here. 'Antithetical' is a great opportunity for people to discover great music".
'Antithetical' marks the third album by the Portuguese act and it will be available globally from November, 22nd 2013 throughout the alliance of Carbon Medien to one of the largest distributors in the world associated with Interscope Records/UMG.
'Antithetical' will be available in hundreds of online stores, mobile services and streaming companies all over the globe. To mark the occasion a third single from 'Antithetical' will be released during the next weeks.
(source: Malevolence)
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Portuguese extreme progressive metallers Malevolence have set 'Antithetical' as the title of their forthcoming third album.
The main theme of the album illustrates a razor-sharp concept inspired from ancient Greek etymology (1580's, from Greek antithetikos) that reflects the diametrical opposition to a number of propositions consisting in the revelation of a divergent thought. Pertaining to antithetical, the anti (against) + thesis (position), as a figure of speech (mainly used by the authors of the Baroque period; style of the epoch known as the art of onflict) acknowledge opposition towards the relative thesis expressed.
Malevolence singer / guitarist / songwriter Carlos Cariano detaching a slight sparkle on the title and its significance, said: "'Antithetical' is loaded with intoxicatingly corrosive contrasts whilst the album represents pure rebellion, a pure nonconformist extension towards the current situation of the globe, an upheaval towards the current language that has no force of expression and no meaning, due to the predictability of words and counterfeit actions that have become commonplace worldwide.
Inner strength and living values nowadays are negatively base underneath relative truths and we are expressing ourselves precisely antithetically whilst insisting on critical thinking".
Music and lyrics are far beyond the average practice and 'Antithetical' is a very unnatural progressive slab of extreme sonic amalgamation creating parallelisms to simplify extremes whilst apprehending both the positive and the negative perspectives of existence, in order to erect with the synthesis that transcends both.
As hope is 'Antithetical' to despair, the contrasts established within the album serve in effect to give tension to the broad-spectrum body of work consisting of 7 songs. 'Antithetical' includes the most epic material (longest song clocking at 9:27 mins), plus the heaviest proportional songwriting ever accomplished on the eighteenth year of existence of the collective.
Exploring experimental yet instrumental mind bending extreme metal structures, the album is a pure heavy mammoth demonstration on extreme progressive metal territory.
Track listing:1. Slithering (2:55)
2. Cult of the Everlasting (6:18)
3. Devoured Unlimited (4:21)
4. Antithetical (8:12)
5. Equilibrium in Extremis (4:34)
6. Exocortex Momentum (9:27)
7. Mechanisms of Destructiove Behaviour (7:19)
(source: Malevolence)