New track "Hive of Parasites"
Five years after acclaimed last EP and DMP-debut Also sprach Futura, LYCHGATE are poised to return with their fourth full-length on December 19th. Precipice is progressive Extreme Metal plummeting inside a black hole: scorching, twisted and transfixing. The band have upped both the dystopic prog-Death quotient and their sense of experimentation, moving with formidable, mechanised poise and a surrealist's sense of dread.
Tracklist:
- Introduction – The Sleeper Awakes
- Mausoleum of Steel
- Renunciation
- The Meeting of Orion and Scorpio
- Hive of Parasites
- Death's Twilight Kingdom
- Terror Silence
- Anagnorisis
- Pangaea
"Humanity offered up its life
To be a slave of its own creation
Its state from commander to commanded
By the anvil that breaks the hammer" ('Hive of Parasites')
The album was mixed and mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Studios. Cover artwork is courtesy of Nadiia Skidan, layout by SRWo.
As an initiation into this mind-manglingly intense and progressive work, LYCHGATE unveil a key piece as first single. With intelligent, labyrinthine songwriting and suffocatingly dense production, 'Hive of Parasites' is an unsettling blend of grandeur and decay.
'Hive of Parasites' stands as the centrepiece — and longest track — of our forthcoming album Precipice. Lyrically, it delves into the record's core inspiration: E. M. Forster's The Machine Stops. Musically, the piece unfolds like a descent and resurgence — beginning in calm, brooding contemplation before erupting into passages that are rapid, atmospheric, and at times violently intense. Following a climactic crescendo, the track sinks back into an introspective, hypnotic trance, only to reveal a final twist on an earlier theme.
Listen to 'Hive of Parasites' on the DMP YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/dhzf-tq1aoM?si=zrV15hdlXmuD6bee