Artist: LOUDBLAST
Album: ALTERING FATES AND DESTINIES RED MARBLE VINYL (LP)

Year: 25.10.2024
EAN/UPS: 3760053847911
Media type: LP

Even if he voluntary describes the material as “pretty old-school”, Buriez talks about Altering Fates And Destinies as a very personal album. “It’s a good synthesis of what we stand for in 2024. We don’t forget where we come from yet we didn’t set any boundaries and vowed to do whatever the fuck we wanted.”

Indeed, a track like ‘From Beyond II (The Return)’ for instance sees them dwelling back in the Lovecraft mythos but also referencing their own history by offering a sequel to a track off their 1989 debut album, 'Sensorial Treatment' which can also be read as the story of their beginning as a band. Hence also why Buriez went sonically for a very organic and natural sounding type of production, devoid of as much of triggered sounds as possible.

It’s quite fitting then that the title of the album itself can be read as a good description of what the band represents for Buriez who formed it when he was only seventeen years old. “You can’t dissociate my life as a human being and as a musician. It’s all connected and defines who I am. That’s what the words ‘Altering Fates and Destinies’ refer to.”

In a way, it doesn’t matter if this is 1985 or 2024. LOUDBLAST have still ingrained in them what makes the difference in between those who follow the trends and those for whom forging their own path and living by their own rules is like a second nature. Forward, always forward.

FOR FANS OF : DEATH, MORBID ANGEL, GOJIRA, BEHEMOTH, SEPULTURA, OBITUARY...

CD/ LP:

1) From Beyond II (The Return) 3,47
2) Putrid Age of Decay 3,29
3) Crystal Skin 3,52
4) Miserable Failure 4,10
5) He Who Slumbers 5,32
6) Son Of Nameless Mist 4,42
7) Dark Allegiance 4,50
8) Inhale The Void 4,25
9) Cursed And Veiled 3,23
10) Fortress 5,33

CD Bonus tracks :
11)They’ll Never Catch The Glint of Sunlight Again 4,12
12)The Path To The End 3,55
13) Forbidden Pleasure 2,20