Deviant Process announce new album ‘Nurture’
DEVIANT PROCESS have announced a new album!
Titled Nurture, the upcoming album from the Canadian technical death metal band is their second full-length offering, and is scheduled to be released in October this year, via Season of Mist.
“We aren’t the kind of band where it’s ‘showing off first, music second,’” explains guitarist/vocalist Jean-Daniel Villeneuve. “We want to have great compositions with solid ideas and structures. We want the listener to be able to sing the song, to be able to remember every passage and every riff, not just thinking, ‘Oh my god, I’m surrounded by 11,000 notes a second.’ We didn’t want to check tech-death boxes about what BPM we needed to have blast beats at, using the same amps this big band used or how much shredding we needed to include. We don’t want to be a band that’s only about achievements in technical ability. We want great music and that’s been our goal since the beginning.”
Thematically, the upcoming album uses veiled lyrical references and far-reaching metaphors in the exploration of human experience commonalities. bassist Philippe Cimon says, “there isn’t a central theme for the lyrics on Nurture. The songs were written over a certain period of time and different themes are explored. A common aspect to every song is the use of esoteric or mythological references to express a relation to a certain theme, be it substance abuse, trauma and its consequences, faith, solitude, or man’s lust for power. However, the themes are sometimes brought up in a way that is very unclear and lets the reader make up his own explanation of the text.”
“There’s no gory stuff or anything typically death metal in our lyrics,” adds Villeneuve. “Our goal is to have the listener be able to associate a lyrical idea to a song. We want the listener to create their own feeling and meaning for the songs. It’s an album where people can really feel the vibe throughout the whole thing, not just from listening to one song. There’s an energy you can feel from our effort and there’s a flow that goes from beginning to the end, a journey that’s speaking in the music.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, DEVIANT PROCESS have released the first song from the upcoming new album; Asynchronous. Speaking about the new song, the band says, “Asynchronous embodies the new direction of songwriting for the band, showing how we managed to carefully assemble the more eclectic elements of our music in a coherent way. It is a song that is without compromise, laying bare the soul of the band and really setting up the stage for the whole album.”
Listen to Asynchronous here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. In Worship, In Blood
2. Emergence
3. Asynchronous
4. The Hammer Of Dogma
5. Syrtis Magna
6. Homo Homini Deus
7. The Blessings Of Annihilation Infinite
8. Cybervoid (OBLIVEON cover)
Nurture is set for release on October 15th via Season of Mist. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
For more information on DEVIANT PROCESS like their official page on Facebook.
