LA death/doom ensemble, Civerous, are getting set for the release of their next album, Maze Envy. The follow up to debut, Decrepit Flesh Relic, it is due on LP, CD, MC, and digital platforms March 22nd, via the record label, 20 Buck Spin. The band have now shared the album’s lead single, “Labyrinth Charm,” which features a guest vocal appearance by Derek Rydquist ( The Faceless). Check out the video for “Labyrinth Charm” and more below.
Stream “Labyrinth Charm” here.
Where death/doom may often stay in safe and unadventurous realms of narrow focus, Maze Envy presents a more far-reaching breadth of ambition, where unusual technicality, progressive atmospheres, string flourishes, and chaotic mysticism radiate a purple light of the soul’s ascension from the black oceans of dread Civerous inhabits. Chain-dragging dirge, blackened blasting, and the savage ferocity of Lord Foul’s hellish vocal exorcisms exalt Maze Envy with a hellish grandeur within its myriad paths to oblivion. With a massively crushing sound, Maze Envy is end-of-times music for an age in which that reckoning feels unfathomably close. Civerous batters the senses into a state of labyrinthian turmoil from which emergence is ever more implausible.
Maze Envy was recorded between Winter 2022 and Summer 2023, engineered, mixed, and produced by Andrew Solis (Apparition) at Deadstare Audio with additional engineering by Kevin McCombs at The Steakhouse, North Hollywood, and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Sound. The record features captivating cover art by Juanjo Castellano (Majesties, Voidceremony, Avulsed, Gates Of Ishtar), photography by Juliet Guzman, and layout by Dan Fried, completing a record prime for fans of Spectral Voice, Disembowelment, My Dying Bride, Worm, Ceremonium, Tzompantli, Krypts, and Rippikoulu. Watch for additional previews of the album to drop over the bleak weeks ahead.
Maze Envy tracklisting:
01 The Azure Eye
02 Shrouded In Crystals
03 Endless Symmetry
04 Labyrinth Charm (Featuring Derek Rydquist)
05 Levitation Tomb
06 Maze Envy
07 Geryon (The Plummet)
Civerous is plotting tour dates in support of Maze Envy, the band already confirmed to play multiple Spring and Summer festivals including Disemboweled God Fest 2024 in Seattle with Mortiferum, Druid Lord, Drawn And Quartered, Tithe, and more, the inaugural Austin Death Fest with Tomb Mold, Witch Vomit, Mortiferum, Outer Heaven, Sentenced 2 Die, Lunar Chamber, Maul, Torture Rack, and others, Death Over Bakersfield 2024 with the likes of Apparition, Fórn, Abyssal and Funeral Leech, and Deadstock II alongside Abstracter, Mephitic Corpse, Apparition, and many others. Stand by for live updates throughout the year.
Civerous Live:
03/29-31/2024 Disemboweled God Fest 2024 @ Belltown Yacht Club – Seattle, WA
04/27-28/2024 Austin Death Fest @ Mohawk – Austin, TX
06/21-24/2024 Death Over Bakersfield 2024 @ Grumpy’s Brewing Co. – Bakersfield, CA
07/19-21/2024 Deadstock II @ TBA
Civerous:
Lord Foul – vocals
Daniel Salinas – guitar
Alonso Santana – guitar
Drew Horton – bass
Aidan Neuner – drums
Follow Civerous:
https://linktr.ee/civerous
https://civerous.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/civerous_disease