EVOKEN Unleash Video for Second Single “None”!

EVOKEN Unleash Video for Second Single ‘None’; New Album ‘Mendacium’ Out October 17 on Profound Lore Records!

Funeral Doom icons EVOKEN have delivered another intense taste of their highly-anticipated new full-length record, entitled ‘Mendacium’, which will be out on October 17 via Profound Lore Records. Following the release of the first single ‘Matins’, the band follows up today with the track ‘None’, which is accompanied by a brand new video clip directed, produced and edited by Eva Tusquets. 

Offering insight into the song, the band states: “We unveil the sixth Benedictine hour, ‘None,’ a hollow chant of the monastic life. It lays bare the struggle of a deluded monk, torn between blind faith and the desires his dogma cannot rule.” 

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Where EVOKEN‘s latest album ‘Hypnagogia’ would see the band capture and focus on a more melancholic, tangible, and even more of an accessible sonic design, ‘Mendacium’ takes that acute shift back to the monumental dirge-like dread and woeful catacombic and disharmonious heaviness reminiscent of the band’s ‘Quietus’ and ‘Antithesis of Light’ masterworks. All while still encapsulating the tectonic-shifting nature of their ‘Caress of the Void’ and ‘Atra Mors’ releases while venturing more through classic gothic audial textures and even treading a little down experimental mire as well, reminiscing an aura seeping from such luminary artists as Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment. 

To signal this shift in sound harking back to this previous era, the band would recall the services of producer Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal who worked with EVOKEN on their ‘Antithesis of Light’ and ‘Quietus’ albums respectively. The result being ‘Mendacium’ capturing a sepulchral heaviness saturated in ambience with even more of an emphasis on deathlike dread and anguish; an ambience reflecting the depths and catacombs of an ancient cathedral or monastery, ultimately defining ‘Mendacium’ as EVOKEN’s most powerful sounding album to date.

‘Mendacium’ tells the tale of a fourteenth-century elderly Benedictine monk whose illness prevents him from leaving his cell in the monastery. His faith and service to God can never be satiated. Slowly declining in health and sleepless from continuous pain, the monk encounters a hideous entity emerging through a tear in reality. The story questions, is the torment of this monk by each passing hour being inflicted by this entity or is it all within his own mind?

‘Mendacium’ will be out on October 17 via Profound Lore Records
and is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION