Kardashev announce new album ‘Leminal Rite’

KARDASHEV have announced a new album!

Titled Leminal Rite, the upcoming album from the Arizona-based deathgaze band is the follow-up to 2021’s The Baring Of Shadows, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Metal Blade Records.

With drums tracked in drummer Sean Lang‘s home studio, KARDASHEV returned to Endless Gate Audio in Arizona to track guitar, bass, and vocals. They then gathered at The Sound Lair in Tennessee – the first time this lineup has ever been in the same room together – to work with producer/mixer Miah Lajeunesse. The album was mastered by Ryan Williams. The band also brought in BOHREN & DER CLUB OF GORE‘s saxophonist Christoph Clöser.

The record follows a narrative laid out by Lang‘s spoken word parts. Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist Nico Mirolla says, “Liminal Rite explores how the past can both wound and seduce, leading us down a path of self-destruction. It‘s an anecdotal tale from a fictional man‘s perspective late in life on how perception and reality do not always coalesce. His experience tells a larger message of how our minds often create a false view of the past. Sean‘s narration is him expressing the man‘s perception and recollection of life. The failure of his memory, the nature of dementia, and how it plays into his experience are all encapsulated by the narrative sections.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, KARDASHEV have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Compost Grave-Song. Speaking about the new song, Mirolla says, “Compost Grave-Song illuminates the point of no return in The Lost Man’s descent into regret, anger, and madness. He is lucid. He is awake. The Lost Man finds himself standing in the spot where his father knelt so many years ago. Guilt masked by anger grabs him by the chest and he curses the earth beneath him. The death of his brother rises to the surface of his mind as a cloud of locusts swarms a field, ripping and tearing until all hunger is satiated. He clutches a stone and sees the ghostly effigy of his father‘s hand doing the same. Images of the tragedy that took his brother away flood The Lost Man, and he remembers the fury of his father as the truth was laid bare. But… what was it, that grave mistake that manifested by his own actions? The memory is too far in the ground, buried under broken glass and isolation. But this time will be different. This time he will not be cast aside. He is home, and he would rather die than suffer the loss of his past for a second time.”

Watch the official music video for Compost Grave-Song here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. The Approaching Of Atonement
2. Silvered Shadows
3. Apparitions In Candlelight
4. Dissever
5. Lavender Calligraphy
6. The Blinding Threshold
7. Compost Grave-Song
8. Cellar Of Ghosts
9. Glass Phantoms
10. A Vagabond’s Lament
11. Beyond The Passage Of Embers

Leminal Rite is set for release on June 10th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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