Horrendous Release New Video for “Preterition Hymn”
Philly’s finest death metal band celebrating anniversary of Decibel’s #1 album of 2024
This month marks one year since Horrendous brought the metal realm to its knees in worship of Ontological Mysterium. After exploding from the underground in 2018 with the cultishly beloved Idol, last year, the Philadelphia death metal band were the toast of the genre’s critics.
Decibel, Metal Injection, BangerTV and Metal Hammer all listed Ontological Mysterium high atop their 2023 best-of lists, often right alongside the band’s recent tour mates Tomb Mold. The album also cracked the Billboard charts, climbing well inside the Top 10 of the Current Hard Music Albums.
Today, Horrendous are celebrating the first anniversary of Ontological Mysterium with their first-ever music video. The album’s slow-burning triump “Preterition Hymn” now comes with a glorious film treatment that’s worthy of a Viking funeral.
“Our long awaited video debut is a symbolic journey through the lyrical themes of ‘Preterition Hymn'”, the band says. “It’s a psalm for the lowly and the damned, the Preterite and the passed over, sitting beneath the feet of the elect. Our downtrodden heroes are driven in chains by a mournful god to their final trial in this realm, sounding their last desperate cries in defiance of the fate bestowed upon them–and upon all of us. Is their sacrifice enough to win salvation? To rise in glorious flames? In communion with the spirit of the song, we endured the pain of icy November waters, risking life and limb to capture and offer up an authentic sacrifice in the name of the Preterite ones. Lift your voices along with our heroes that you may ascend before the tides rise again…”
Ontological Mysterium is available now through Season of Mist.
Order: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/HorrendousShop
Stream: https://orcd.co/ontologicalmysteriumpresave
The video for “Preterition Hymn” was created by My Good Eye: Music Visuals
Full video credits
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Post-Production FX:
David Brodsky for My Good Eye: Music Visuals
www.mgenyc.com
Producer, 1st AD, Cinematographer:
Allison Woest for My Good Eye: Music Visuals
2nd AD, Grip:
Robb Brown
Best Boy Electric:
Lindsey Fehr
Production Assistant:
Brandon Yeagley
Costuming and Stylist:
Paulina Olivares
Location Managers:
Ross Imbruglia
Joseph Imbruglia
Location Techs:
Lee Hebelink
Todd Steinhouer
Starring:
Nick Duchemin
Audio Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering:
Damian Herring
Praise for Ontological Mysterium
“Somehow these guys can take Iron Maiden, mesh it with ’90s prog-influenced death metal masters like Atheist, dispense with traditional metal song structures and create something that you’ve never heard before” – Metal Injection.
“Ontological Mysterium is a pholosophical treat cloistered within some of the most ravenously delectable death metal you could subject yourself to this year, perhaps ever” – Lambgoat
“Another triumph of intelligent, sumptuous progressive death, cementing themselves as one of the most important death metal bands of the past decade” – Angry Metal Guy
“Horrendous have made one of the best death metal albums, not only this year but in recent memory…a modern death metal classic” – Metal Sucks
“Rather than rely on the tropes of death metal they use them as tools to drive the point home, allowing melodies room to breathe” – Ghost Cult
“If you’re a fan of this era of metal, there is no better time than now to tune in” – No Echo
“By far their brashest play yet” – Pitchfork
“Their music is extremely accessible, crossing through several genres whilst having a melodic and catchy vibe. Perhaps it feels so accessible because whenever I myself listen to Horrendous, it just feels like they’re having so much fun.”. – New Noise
Later this year, Horrendous are celebrating another anniversary when their second album celebrates its 10-year anniversary. In honor of Ecdysis, the band will play the entire album during a special set in front of their hometown faithful at Decibel‘s upcoming 20th Anniversary Show.
Horrendous 10th Anniversary Set of Ecdysis Live @ Decibel‘s 20th Anniversary Show w/ Autopsy + Immolation
August 31 – Philadelphia, PA @ Brooklyn Bowl [TICKETS]
“This will be a special day for us,” the band says. “Ecdysis was a significant milestone in our musical journey. Three of the album’s songs have never been performed live, and many others have not been played in years. We hope you’ll join us to celebrate – long live the Vermillion!”
Tracklist:
1. The Blaze (02:00)
2. Chrysopoeia (The Archaeology of Dawn) (07:16)
3. Neon Leviathan (03:30)
4. Aurora Neoterica (01:56)
4. Preterition Hymn (03:58) [WATCH]
5. Cult of Shaad’oah (05:24) [WATCH]
6. Exeg(en)esis, (03:38)
7. Ontological Mysterium (04:44) [WATCH]
8. The Death Knell Ringeth (05:20)
Total run time: 37:44
“Surprises always come up during writing — spontaneous ideas pull you into new territory and enable the realization of novel possibilities that previously were inaccessible.”
Such are the words from Horrendous drummer Jamie Knox when discussing the creation of the band’s fifth full-length, the highly anticipated ‘Ontological Mysterium’. Knox’s quote also encapsulates Horrendous’s approach to extreme metal. Since 2009, the band has capably tapped into the inaccessible by providing a fresh, unconventional take on death metal that harnesses technical brilliance with elaborate, mind-melding melodies, frothy, spewing vocals and labyrinthine song structures. This combination has made each Horrendous long play a clinic in the gratifyingly unorthodox. The trend continues on Ontological Mysterium.
The follow-up to 2018’s Idol was recorded, mixed and mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios in Virginia, which doubles as the homestead of guitarist/vocalist Damian Herring. While the band (completed by guitarist/vocalist Matt Knox and bassist Alex Kulick) finished much of the songwriting for Ontological Mysterium in 2019, its recording was delayed by the 2020 global pandemic and various life events. Horrendous eventually finished recording in early 2022 and mastered the album before the start of 2023.
The album upholds Horrendous’s position as one of the underground’s best outside-of-the-box extreme metal bands. Having long abandoned concern whether people would appreciate their “uniqueness,” Horrendous has embraced its role as a band willing to veer far from death metal conventions, intentionally stretching and breaking norms. To wit, the band primarily views its music as filtered through a death metal lens. This may be Horrendous’s defining trait: By not accepting parameters, nothing is off-limits.
Lineup:
Damian Herring – Guitar, Vocals
Matt Knox – Guitar, Vocals
Alex Kulick – Bass
Jamie Knox – Drums
Producer / Sound Engineer / Mixing / Mastering: Damian Herring at Subterranean Watchtower Studio,Arlington, VA, USA
Style: Progressive death metal
Cover art: Brian Smith
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