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Buy here: The title track from The Zenith Passage's “Datalysium“ album. While far too many progressive and technical death metal bands are happy to walk the same path and stick to a tried-and-true sound, on their second full-length The Zenith Passage forge new and exhilarating territory. From start to finish, Datalysium is driven by imagination, and played by artists who have full command of their instruments, creating something that stands out of any pack while maintaining what made them such a riveting proposition in the first place. When asked to describe the record, the band do so vividly: “Imagine if Necrophagist and Meshuggah were married, and Cynic and Extol got married, then years later they went to a swingers party to spice up their relationships, which then became a regular thing. From this, they all had a kid together, no one knows who the biological father is, but that's cool because they're co-parenting. That kid then grows up, idolizing David Lynch, Ridley Scott and film noir. He then goes to film school for a couple of years, but drops out because he'd rather play synth music, but ends up broke and homeless. Then Datalysium would be that kid.“ Directed by: Vince Edwards & The Zenith Passage Edited by: Dylan Gould | StayGoulden Camera Op: @NicolePapastavrou Lights & Laser Programming: Sean Krell Datalysium Music: McKinney Lyrics: Rydquist Patiently, it awaits Biding time, drifting away The design taking shape To condense its domain An initiative instilling all things to bring on their own finality To escape decay, transmute the bases and transcend Bound disorderly, architecting the means to their end Reorganizing into salient, definitive manifestation Conceit is passed from the prime source Material motivation Salvation is promised comfort Immaterial curation All progression is a machination of amalgamation Conglomerating the Anthropocene’s futile history Human achievement - a system function reduced, nonexistent To escape decay, transmute the bases and transcend Bound disorderly, architecting the means to their end Reorganizing into salient, definitive manifestation Enveloped in a spectrum of diversion The unity that they seek serves not the peace they envision Conceit is passed from the prime source Material motivation Salvation is promised comfort Immaterial curation All progression is a machination of amalgamation Free to worship at the altar of perceived choice Be it man or beast or machine or what comes after None are their own master All will become absorbed, returned to the source #thezenithpassage #metalblade #techdeath #deathmetal
