Lowheaven have dropped crushing single ‘Mercy Death’, taken from the band’s upcoming debut album.
With ‘Ritual Decay’ set to arrive on August 29, the band are settling into their new label home at MNRK Heavy.
Produced by Brett Romnes (Boston Manor, Hot Mulligan), the latest cut from the Toronto post-metal outfit encapsulates sheer dread.
Speaking on ‘Mercy Death’, vocalist/guitarist Dan Thomson shares:
“This song feels like the soundtrack to my nightmares. It was one of the songs in the batch where I realized just how heavy this band was going to be. Our goal was always to find a way to musically transmit what we all felt going on around us, and this one hit the nail on the head. As with a lot of the songs on Ritual Decay, I came in with a rough framework of the lyrics, and then rewrote the whole song the night before recording it. I was spending the late nights in the studio isolated, just pouring over and scrutinizing every line. Every detail. Trying to find a way to free myself. This is the product of that.”
Check it out via the video below:
On the writing of ‘Mercy Death’, guitarist/keyboardist Alex Pley says:
“The original working title for this song was ‘Godzilla, and it earned it. Writing this song with Dan and Mikey [Buchta] in the early days of the band was when it started to really sink in how heavy we were going to get. One of the ‘themes’ that I really tried to stick with when writing for this band was a sort of ‘end of the world’ feel; terrifying and powerful. The end of this song is a fucking monster, and playing this song live is going to ruin some people’s lives if they aren’t ready. Chaos king still reigns”
Take a look at the artwork and full track listing for ‘Ritual Decay’ below:
1. In Grievance
2. Chemical Pattern
3. Cancer Sleep
4. Nothing Else Frail
5. Amherst
6. Mercy Death
7. Fucking Hell
8. Fighter Valley
9. Violence
10. Manic Grace
