20 Buck Spin verkündet stolz das neue Album der kanadischen Death Metaller TOMB MOLD an. „The Enduring Spirit“ erscheint am 13. Oktober 2023 auf LP, Picture LP, CD und MC, während die digitale Veröffentlichung bereits für den 15. September geplant ist.

Es wurde bei Boxcar Sound Recording von Sean Pearson (Tomb Mold, Dream Unending) aufgenommen und von Arthur Rizk (Tomb Mould, Dream Unending, Kommand, Gravesend, Power Trip) gemischt und gemastert. Das Artwork des Albums wurde von Jesse Jacobi übernommen, der auch für das Artwork von „Planetary Clairvoyance“ verantwortlich war, mit zusätzlichem Artwork von Karmazid, Layout und Design von Chimère Noire.

Nachdem TOMB MOLD in drei Jahren drei Alben veröffentlicht und die nächsten vier in der Wildnis verbracht hatten, wurde die Band mit dem vierten Album „The Enduring Spirit“ wiedergeboren, ein völlig unverfrorener Schritt in weite Neulandgebiete. Doch trotz all seiner frenetischen Wagemut und kühnen Erkundung ist „The Enduring Spirit“ nie etwas anderes als unverkennbar TOMB MOLD.

While the expanding TOMB MOLD architecture could be heard on last year’s self-released "Aperture of Body" tape, particularly on final track "Prestige of Rebirth", it comes into clear focus throughout "The Enduring Spirit". Certainly Derrick Vella’s time creating within and expanding the Doom genre in Dream Unending has seeped into the flesh of TOMB MOLD, not to mention Payson Power and Max Klebanoff’s explorations in their own Daydream Plus project.
With album opener "The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)" the band’s angular dimension shifting riffing appears right out of the gate as the track travels through varying degrees of progressive Death Metal and some of the band’s most extreme material yet. "Will Of Whispers" enters with a jazz-like fantasy sequence before careening into a blinding white light barrage, tasteful guitar leads and back to a dreamy serpentine pattern, encompassing whole universes in its nearly 7 minute run-time.

The back half of the record continues the voyage into what’s possible with the outward expansion of Death Metal norms, reaching the zenith of 11+ minute album closer "The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity", an otherworldly journey into a vortex where all things converge in space and time and generating the tree of life via luminous celestial composition.

With 4 years away, a band with boundless creative energy, as TOMB MOLD are, were certain to expand the scope of their vision, and on "The Enduring Spirit" they’ve shaped a record with a cinematic environment that offers unlimited avenues of exploration, both for themselves and the listener.

Tracklist:
1. The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)
2. Angelic Fabrications
3. Will Of Whispers
4. Fate’s Tangled Thread
5. Flesh As Armour
6. Servants Of Possibility
7. The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity