CIDESPHERE · Dawn of a New Epoch | GREY LP

Grey vinyl in standard cover, limited to 150 copies.

Background information about 'Dawn of a New Epoch'

Some records creep up on you. "Dawn of a New Epoch" is one of them — Cidesphere don't so much open an album as crack a seal, letting cold air and low-end rumble spill out before a single riff lands. When the guitars finally arrive, they arrive like weather: thick, slow-moving, and utterly indifferent to whatever you had planned for the next forty minutes. This is death metal with a doom heart, played by people who clearly spent more time listening to old tapes in a damp rehearsal room than chasing trends on a screen.

What makes it stick is the patience. Nothing here is in a hurry. The riffs circle, tighten, and then collapse into passages of genuinely unnerving quiet, and the production keeps that grimy, cellar-damp texture that so many modern productions sand away. The vocals sit buried just deep enough that you lean in, which is exactly where you want to be. There are moments that recall the greats of the genre without ever feeling like a photocopy — the band has its own gravity, its own sense of dread, and a real instinct for the moment when a song should stop rather than sprawl.

It's the kind of debut that makes you check the release date twice, because it sounds like a band that already knows exactly who it is. Pressed on grey vinyl, this is a record built for headphones at 2 a.m. and for the shelf space you'll happily give up. Turn it up and let the epoch begin.

For fans of: Asphyx, Hooded Menace, Autopsy, Grave, Bolt Thrower

Other Versions

CD · 12,99 € MAROON WHITE SWIRL LP · 23,99 €

Track listing

A1. Reborn Into Extinction
A2. Plague Of Greed
A3. Living Scars
A4. Sacred Patronage
A5. Sadist
B1. Dawn Of A New Epoch
B2. Death Is Only Ours
B3. March Of The Backstabbers
B4. Hate Design
B5. Sui Caedere

Manufacturer: ProMedia GmbH, Im Gartenfeld 1, 54516 Flußbach, Germany, Contact: testimonyrecords.de