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After numerous setbacks and lineup changes, Essex death metallers, Beyond Extinction have announced the release of their debut album, Where They Gather, for 26th September. In the same move, the band shared the full-length’s title track as a single. Check it out below and find out more.
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“This is an invite for you to explore the final settlement of human life on earth, the future of our sprawling cities and urban decay” the band say.
On the anthropic new single and album announcement, vocalist Jasper Harmer comments:
“Where They Gather” is anchored to a groove-heavy arsenal of riffs that carries much of the song’s weight, being supported by speed and precision in its more surgical elements. The deep tuned guitars are allowed to swing open and wide in this track and fully display how low and sickening this album gets. The misery and chaos of the city centred in the album’s story is portrayed by this track through an autopsy of heavy organs. Visions of a metropolis pulling the life from its inhabitants, both parasite and host. Suffocating fumes join the groans of their overpopulated streets and monolithic high-rise giants. Kevlar-clad keepers of order stamp on the throats of innocent children, having turned their guns homeward once the rest of the world had burned. Cement and asphalt are fertilised by tears, sick and soot. They crawl through the avenues of their bastardised home and plead to a tired and unwilling god to fix the falling buildings and spewing drains. When all other holes, nests and hives have been chewed into unrecognisable dirt, this is Where They Gather.”
Where They Gather tracklisting:
01 Bodies At The Gates
02 Where They Gather
03 Traitors To The Ropes
04 Tyranny ft. Alex Teyen (Black Tongue)
05 Scorched Earth
06 Apache ft. Josh Davies (Ingested)
07 Seven Spears
08 Throne Of Atrophy
09 Winter Sun
10 Mansions Burning On Bleak Horizons
11 Earthmurk
12 The Mines
13 U-235
2025 is not only the year that sees the fruits of their labour come into fruition in the form of Beyond Extinction’s long-awaited anticipated debut album, but they’ll also be hitting the road and coming to a town near you. As well as performing some select headline dates, the deathcore warriors will also be embarking on three not-to-be-missed co-headline shows with blackened deathcore southerners, To Obey A Tyrant and an opening slot at London’s Underworld with straightedge Australians To The Grave.
Thu 3rd July – SOUTHEND Fickle Pickle
Fri 1st Aug – MANCHESTER Aatma^
Sat 2nd Aug – GUILDFORD The Holroyd Arms^
Sun 3rd Aug – NORWICH B2^
Fri 22nd Aug – COLCHESTER Three Wise Monkeys-
Sun 24th Aug – CAMBRIDGE
Fri 29th Aug – LONDON The Underworld*
^co-headline w/ To Obey a Tyrant
-w/ Gutrectomy, Kanine
*w/ To The Grave, Osiah
Get your tickets here: https://beyondextinction.online/
More from Beyond Extinction:
It’s not been an easy journey for the Essex based four-piece, with a long and difficult recovery for the band after losing founding member and lead guitarist Zach Scott in 2023 at just 20 years old. 2024 saw the childhood school friends put together a memorial show, titled Never Forget Your Own, a moniker Zach had tattooed on him, at London’s Underworld in celebration of a life well-lived. The stellar line-up of bands, of which Zach had been involved with in one form or another, consisted of headliners Osiah, Beyond Extinction, Godeater, Bitterwood, Existentialist, Dygora, Glower, and How Long You Been Driving. All proceeds were split and donated to three mental health and suicide prevention charities: Help Musicians, Young Minds, and Campaign Against Living Miserably.
In the aftermath and through sheer determination, passion, and the addition of guitarist Danny Russel, who joins Jasper Harmer [vocals], Jude Bennett [guitars], and Niall Ali [drums], death metallers Beyond Extinction have risen to the challenge. After countless UK tours, festival appearances and two stellar EPs, The Fatal Flaws of Humankind [2021] and Nothing More Wretched [2023], their first full length arrives this autumn.
“Danny didn’t just fill a space in the band, he set a new course for us,” confesses drummer Niall Ali. “His vision didn’t just complement ours, it expanded it, adding new colours to our music’s soundscape. You can feel his fingerprints in the icy tension of ‘Winter Sun’, his rhythmic intricacies are interwoven through the album’s atmosphere.” Danny Russel adds, “Before I joined the band officially, I had written ‘Winter Sun’ in full and presented it to the guys. They loved it so much it didn’t need revising. I am very happy to have later been involved in the remainder of the writing process.”
Creating a visually compelling backdrop to their music is a constant element in Beyond Extinction’s song-writing, embossing their lyrics and ambient soundscapes with personal horrors and realisations. Dense and asphyxiatingly heavy, their music offers a hazed vision of pain and loss, introspection and anthropy, and hindsight and foresight into a world that was not built for us.
Vocalist and lyricist Jasper Harmer talks about the process of bringing his dystopian but scarily familiar world to life: “My lyrics are the amalgamation of all the ills of our cities and urban living projected onto a bleak and damning story of our future. In some ways it is a grim and depressing prediction of our civilisation’s final destination. Truly, this city is the place where all my hate has come to live. Truly, I hope we never end up there.”
Beyond Extinction are:
Jasper Harmer – Vocals
Jude Bennett – Guitars
Danny Russel – Guitars
Niall Ali – Drums
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