photos by Kendra Farber
“Black Wings Of Desolation” is the putrid new single from Portland, Oregon-based death metal quartet WITCH VOMIT, the latest harbinger of the band’s impending third album, Funeral Sanctum, nearing release in early April on 20 Buck Spin, in time for the band’s Western US tour.
WITCH VOMIT’s two previous albums, Abhorrent Rapture and Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave, solidified and elevated their position as one of current US death metal’s most potent and direct sources of expertly crafted cacophonous carnage. With a methodically relentless fervor and merciless aggression, WITCH VOMIT has carved out a formidable reputation for barbarism with hooks so catchy they rend flesh from bone.
On their third album, Funeral Sanctum, WITCH VOMIT expands the dark melodicism buried within the butchery of past releases, now sharpened into black obsidian, and caustically fused with the band’s hallmark brutality. The DNA within tracks such as “Blood Of Abomination” and “Dominion Of A Darkened Realm” invoke not the upbeat harmonies one hears in typical melodic death metal, but something more akin to the demonic evil might of early Dissection, gleaming in frozen darkness. The gore soaked USDM ferocity remains the rotted core of the band’s foundation, the band also sharing members with labelmates Torture Rack, among others.
WITCH VOMIT’s dominant stretch of dynamic evolution within the scope of their concentrated stylistic framework has reached a new pinnacle with Funeral Sanctum. The album’s intense focus and ceaseless riff storm unleashes a wave of blood-freezing gratification carved with permanence into the blackest depths. A must-hear album for all who consume the sounds of Dissection, Eucharist, Demigod, Crucifier, Gorement, Autopsy, and Morbid Angel.
Funeral Sanctum was recorded and mixed in November 2023 by Evan Mersky at Red Lantern Studios (Nightfell, Mournful Congregation, Triumvir Foul), mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio (Leviathan, Gehenna, Cerebral Rot), and is completed with cover art by Matt Stikker (Power Trip, Outer Heaven, Exhumed), additional art by Lucas Forte, photography by Kendra Farber, and layout by Dan Fried.
WITCH VOMIT’s “Black Wings Of Desolation” is now playing everywhere including at YouTube HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
20 Buck Spin will release Funeral Sanctum on LP, CD, MC, and digital platforms on April 5th. Preorders for the album and merch can now be placed at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “Blood Of Abomination” is also streaming HERE.
The release of Funeral Sanctum will be immediately followed by the Funeral Sanctum Tour 2024 across the Western US. WITCH VOMIT will join up with Phobophilic on April 19th and the two bands will tour through Olympia, Boise, Salt Lake City, Denver, Tulsa, Dallas, and Houston on their way to perform at the inaugural Austin Death Fest on April 27th and 28th where they’ll join Tomb Mold, Mortiferum, Outer Heaven, Sentenced 2 Die, Lunar Chamber, Maul, Civerous, Torture Rack, and more. From there, WITCH VOMIT will play Santa Fe with Mortuous May 1st before hooking up with Mortal Wound to play Phoenix, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Portland May 1st through 3rd, the tour ending with WITCH VOMIT playing a hometown show May 4th. Watch for additional WITCH VOMIT tour dates to post throughout the year.
WITCH VOMIT Funeral Sanctum Tour 2024:
4/19/2024 Cryptatropa – Olympia, WA w/ Phobophilic
4/20/2024 The Shredder – Boise, ID w/ Phobophilic
4/21/2024 Aces High Saloon – Salt Lake City, UT w/ Phobophilic
4/22/2024 The Crypt – Denver, CO w/ Phobophilic
4/24/2024 The Whittier Bar – Tulsa, OK w/ Phobophilic
4/25/2024 Cheapsteaks – Dallas, TX w/ Phobophilic
4/26/2024 Black Magic – Houston, TX w/ Phobophilic
4/27-28/2024 Austin Death Fest @ Mohawk – Austin, TX w/ Tomb Mold, Mortiferum, Phobophilic, more
4/30/2024 Launchpad – Albuquerque NM w/ Mortuous
5/01/2024 Nile Underground – Phoenix, AZ w/ Mortal Wound
5/02/2024 Resident – Los Angeles, CA w/ Mortal Wound
5/03/2024 Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA w/ Mortal Wound
5/04/2024 High Water Mark – Portland, OR
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