Boston-based progressive death metal band GRAVEBORN are set to return this spring with the release of their fifth full-length album Metempsychosis.
In the five years since the release of 2021’s Transmigrator, GRAVEBORN has been meticulously crafting their newest magnum opus – an 11-track concept album about continuity in the face of collapse.
Throughout the course of Metempsychosis, GRAVEBORN challenges themselves and the listener to stare into an internal and external abyss. Moving from inner psychological fracture to societal and species-wide decline, the album rejects narratives of tragedy or triumph, treating destruction as a necessary mechanism of transmission. Metempsychosis asks one question and refuses to soften the answer- what remains when everything else is gone?
Hear part of this journey with the album’s new single and final track, “Orthologs.” Watch the lyric video now at youtu.be/rdi995yM6pw.
Vocalist John Leblanc describes the track as the album’s closing statement – a reflection on consciousness as continuity, and the nature of self-evolution.
“‘Orthologs’ is about what survives after annihilation, not as hope, but as function. It’s evolution under pressure. Forced transformation. The essential self persists, but the form changes radically. I don’t return to who I was. I don’t heal into the old shape. I become something else because survival requires it. Like orthologous genes, the structure diverges, but the core purpose remains intact. This isn’t triumphant. It’s real. It’s not a victory lap. It’s the moment after the maw, when something still stands. Not because it’s unbroken, but because it adapted.
This song means: continuity is not comfort. Continuity is persistence. I am changed. I am not whole. But something essential still functions, still moves forward, still exists.
Not healed.
Not restored.
Still here.
And that is enough.”
Stream the album’s first two singles, “Ember of Existence” and “Temporal Sands” on Spotify and Apple Music.
Metempsychosis is due out April 3. Pre-order the album at gravebornma.bandcamp.com.
Tracklist:
1) Embers of Existence
2) The Archaea Paradox
3) Temporal Sands
4) Idols of Bone
5) Paralogs
6) Metempsychosis
7) River of the Eternal Mind
8) Epistatic Drift
9) Legacy of Light
10) The Maw of Recursion
11) Orthologs
Line-Up:
Reggie Lewis – Bass
Jesse Blanchette – Guitars
Chris Ramusiewicz – Guitars
John LeBlanc – Vocals
Marc Brennan – Drums
BIO:
Formed in 2013 in Boston, MA, Graveborn serves up an ethereally heavy strain of progressive death metal. Over the last decade, they have released 4 albums (Samsara (2014), Seeds Of Life (2016), The Athenaeum (2018) and Transmigrator (2021)) and performed throughout the Northeast US with the likes of Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, Cognitive, Ghost Bath, Ov Sulfur, and others. Graveborn weaves the themes of self-evolution and introspection through their lyrics, and embodies this ethos in their collaborations.
After over 5 years since their last album, Transmigrator, Graveborn returns with their 5th full length album, Metempsychosis, set to release on April 3, 2026. Combining the odd-time aggression and dissonant ferocity of bands like Car Bomb, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, and Ion Dissonance with the ethereal melodicism and riff worship of bands like Fallujah, Rivers of Nihil, and Kardashev, Graveborn stand apart from the crowd.
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