West-Midlands progressive death metallers, Rannoch, have shared the video for their single, “Threads” (released June 30 2023). It comes from their upcoming album, Conflagrations, which is due out July 21. This will be their first release on Willowtip Records, clocking up 52 minutes of technical death metal, featuring the drumming talents of Dan Presland.
Accompanied by Australian drumming legend, Dan Presland (Ne Obliviscaris, Black Lava) the seven tracks contained within Conflagrations open up new levels of musicality, punishing aggression, melancholic refrains and winding aural avenues of dark depths and complexity. Produced by Ian Gillings and mixed by James Stephenson (Cradle of Filth, Onslaught, Ghosts of Atlantis), Conflagrations represents a new hybrid of progressive death metal.
Originating from the UK’s West Midlands, Rannoch offer a refreshing take on the progressive death metal subgenre with focused extremity, fastidious technical precision, and rich song writing skills. Swathes of ethereal clean vocals, dark ambience and dynamic shifts accompany sledgehammer brutality and savagely intense screams.
Pre-orders:
https://rannoch-uk.bandcamp.com/album/conflagrations
https://willowtip.com/releases/details/rannoch-conflagrations.aspx
Conflagrations track Listing:
01 Degenerate Era
02 Prism Black
03 Threads
04 Conflagrations
05 Daguerreotype
06 Earth-Recycle
07 Threnody to a Dying Star
Credits:
Recorded and produced by Ian Gillings at the Rannoch studios, Warwickshire, England, between January and October 2022.
Drums engineered and recorded by Troy Mccosker at Bushido Studios, Melton, Australia during January 2022.
Mix and master by James Stephenson for Stymphalian Productions, York, England.
Artwork by Kishor Haulenbeek – Lowell, Massachusetts.
Album Line-up:
Ian Gillings – Guitars, vocals, synths & electronics
Richard Page – Guitars
Paul Lloyd – Bass
Dan Presland – Drums
More about Rannoch:
Rannoch’s debut album was released on Eulogy Media (Damim, Talanas) at the end of 2013 and received exemplary reviews far and wide, including a massive 4.5/5 from Zero Tolerance and 7.5/10 from Terrorizer.
A follow-up EP entitled Age of the Locust was released in 2015, featuring cuts left over from the BTW sessions.
During the tumultuous years of 2020, the sophomore album, Reflections Upon Darkness, was finally unleashed upon the world. With a more evident polar shift between intensity and chilled movements, Rannoch pushed the extremity between these two planes further than ever before, leading Metal Hammer UK to proclaim potential to be included amongst the UK death metal elite and an 8/10 review.
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