Artist: KHEMMIS
Album: DESOLATION VINYL (LP BLACK+BOOKLET)

Year: 2018
EAN/UPS: 727361437619
Media type: LP

BREATH-TAKING DOOM!

Now in 2018, after wrapping up the US Decibel Magazine Tour with ENSLAVED, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM and MYRKUR, the excitement for KHEMMIS’ third album »Desolation« is palpable across the metal spectrum. Fortunately, when you hail from a place known as the Mile High City lofty expectations come with the territory and the band has created what will come to be known as the definitive KHEMMIS classic.

From the stadium-sized opening notes of ‘Bloodletting’ it is immediately evident that KHEMMIS are again putting distance between themselves and their earlier influences to inform a sound that is singularly their own. ‘Isolation’, recently aired live on the Decibel Tour, is the album’s lead single and most immediate track, with the classic metal melodies the band have become revered for shining throughout. On epic closer ’From Ruin’ and throughout the entirety of the album, the lead vocals and melodies of Phil Pendergast are the clearest, most powerful and best arranged that the band has achieved. Working for the third time with Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, the band and producer now have the familiarity and mutual experience to arrive at the perfect symbiosis of songwriting, arrangement and production value.

While KHEMMIS are undeniably influenced by doom and classic metal, to tag them with those labels doesn’t do justice to what’s accomplished on »Desolation«, a perfect representation of modern heavy metal in 2018 that integrates the past in a way only possible in the present. »Desolation« is not just the best KHEMMIS record to date but a testament to the quality that heavy metal is still capable of.


LP (33 RPM):

Side A:

01. Bloodletting
02. Isolation
03. Flesh To Nothing

Side B:

01. The Seer
02. Maw Of Time
03. From Ruin


LINE-UP:

Ben Hutcherson – Guitar/Vocals
Phil Pendergast – Guitar/Vocals
Daniel Beiers – Bass
Zach Coleman – Drums