The Wake: Thought Form Descent - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Thought Form Descent
Artist: The Wake
Label: Metal Blade
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 039841600629
Genre: Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal
Release Date: 2022-07-22
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: DIGIPACK PACKAGING

2022 release. Canada's Wake have never been a band interested in repeating themselves, this abundantly apparent from their discography, having evolved with every release. 2020's Devouring Ruin made this more clear than ever, hammering the point home with the Confluence EP in the same year, and now they return with Thought Form Descent, their most dynamic, diverse and emotional release to date. "I'd describe the record as a place to reconsider what 'extreme' means. The words 'brutal', 'crushing', 'devastating' are overused adjectives for extreme music. We wanted to force people to confront the idea that 'brutal' or 'extreme' ideas aren't just blastbeats or angular tritones, or, more importantly, 'brutal' elements alongside pointedly passive elements can create their own experience that can channel both and neither." The result is eight nuanced tracks that run the gamut from relentlessly heavy to exquisitely beautiful, often simultaneously, and instantly grab hold of the listener, demanding their full attention. However, at the same time, they are lushly textured and densely layered, and offer more with every subsequent exposure, unfurling to show hidden depths, and taking Wake to a whole new level.

Tracks:
1.1 Infinite Inward
1.2 Swallow the Light
1.3 Mourning Dirge (Repose of the Dead)
1.4 Pareidolia
1.5 Venerate (The Undoing of All)
1.6 Observer to Master
1.7 Bleeding Eyes of the Watcher
1.8 Translation of Deaths