Track Premiere: A Flock Named Murder – “To Drown in Obsidian Tides”

You’re definitely getting your money’s worth with this track premiere from Canadian atmospheric black metal trio, A Flock Named Murder. They’re offering up the 17-plus-minute “To Drown in Obsidian Tides” from their upcoming second second full-length, Incendiary Sanctum. The epic track finds the band—Mike Wandy (bass/vocals), Cam Mueller (drums), Ryan Mueller (guitar/vocals)—traveling an expansive, sludgy, doom-laden path complete with melodic, moody guitar work, raw-throated vocals and a full-on black metal assault at its crescendo. It’s practically a mini-album on its own.

“To Drown in Obsidian Tides” is one of four (long) tracks on Incendiary Sanctum, which will be issued on vinyl, CD and digitally via Hypaethral Records on May 2. Place your preorder here.

Here’s what Cam had to say about the new track (sort of):

“We became burnt offerings. The dunes at our feet are ash and the flood to take us is Stygian. Nothing is forgiven in this place and time itself is unravelling. Sorrow knows no end. There was no rapture. The faithful and unfaithful together beget this carnage. Some, much like you. Wrath alone, it seems, has kept us aloft. For how long? Why won’t these desolate waters take us? If there is hope to be found here, it is a gruesome hope. As devastating as the fires within and without, that led us here. A clarion call to dissolution.”