EIDOLA, the enigmatic existential rock band have announced the release of their new album ‘Eviscerate’ on 12th April 2024 via Blue Swan/Rise Records.
Seeking to explore new territory with an ambitious follow-up to their critically acclaimed album ‘The Architect’, the dynamically heavy and deeply sorrowful ‘Eviscerate’ paves eclectically violent sonic ground while remaining true to the band’s profound lyricism and meaning. If you could sum up Eidola’s genre-annihilating decade of creating music it might be insightful, explorative, deeply emotional, extremely dynamic post-hardcore. ‘Eviscerate’ underlines the urgency of the human condition and captures the depth of sorrow, loss, and hatred in modernity.
Single “No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper” rips right out the gate, blisteringly fast and heavy, with powerful vocals and a call to immediate action.
“It is a song that explores the depths of societal division and loathing, a song crying out to every lost soul in the overwhelming chaos of modernity. Inspired by watching a culture, brainwashed by social media, descend into depravity, deception, self-aggrandizement, and hate. A commentary on what it’s like to witness people tear each other apart from the inside out.” says Andrew Michael Wells.
The video for ‘No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper’ was a concept I envisioned from a dream I had where I was sword-fighting a sleep paralysis demon, phasing in and out of a meditation state. Mason Wright, Brian Caudill, and DC at Blvckbox Studios in Las Vegas were incredible to work with. We love and respect their work ethic as it’s identical to our own. They took my vision and stopped at nothing to turn it into reality. The hours were long, the scenes were hard, but in the end it paid off and we ended up with something we are incredibly proud of.” says Andrew Michael Wells
Eidola brought Mike Sahm on as the producer for their 13 song album. “We spent our downtime completely immersed in our desire to push our own limitations” says Wells. “We wanted to take the concepts of this project and double down on the things we felt were most ambitious and exploratory. While keeping our core sound, we chose to experiment with a new producer, 7 string guitars, deep drop tunings, and lean into the violence and loss in our lyrical content.”
The exploration is apparent on the band’s 5th full length release. Their traditionally discussed concepts of wrestling with faith, psychology, human history, and hope are deeply entrenched in newly delved territory of loss, grief, hatred, despair, and coping with absolute abysmal chaos. Eidola seeks to evoke substance in every chord, depth in every lyric, and begs the listener to question the foundations of their very own reality. The enigmatic post-hardcore band shows no signs of slowing as they showcase their lust for the dynamics of the human experience on ‘Eviscerate’.
Eviscerate tracklisting
Atman- An Introduction To Suffering
A Bridge Of Iron And Blood
No Weapon Formed Shall Prosper
Who Of You Will Persevere
The Weight Of Sin
He Who Pulls The Strings Ties A Knot
Fistful Of Hornets
God Takes Away Everything
Ziggurat
Ashes In Gehinnom
Golgotha Compendium- Fith Temple
Kali Yuga
Ecclesiastes- The Burden Of Wisdom
Eviscerate on 12th April 2024 via Blue Swan/Rise Records HERE
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