Two years in the past, I wrote about Alchemy of Flesh, a brand new loss of life steel band on the scene. The solo challenge of Tim Rowland, Alchemy of Flesh was conceived to play the type of loss of life steel that Rowland needed to listen to and play, particularly within the vein of the traditional Florida scene. Their debut album, Ageless Abominations, was a complete killer of an album: refreshingly true to its influences whereas going a step past full worship.

Alchemy of Flesh’s sophomore album, titled By Will Alone, picks up in the same place; Morbid Angel are nonetheless the predominant affect on the band however there are different inspirations current, with Rowland citing Angelcorpse, Monstrosity and Hate Everlasting as three. Whereas Ageless Abominations defaulted to a low-tuned, chugging type of loss of life steel, By Will Alone is a noticeably sooner and more-demanding album; the riffs take heart stage and the drumming is fairly bonkers too.

Lyrically, Rowland was impressed by Jap spirituality and by video video games, particularly Doom and Amnesia.

“This album, each musically and a big half lyrically, is rooted within the power that may be self-willed if we want to boost ourselves above the restrictions we voluntarily set on our personal potential,” the musician tells Decibel. “Extra regularly than we’d like, life typically arms us its inevitable sufferings and alters our comfy state of being. We are able to both, all too simply, relaxation in that distress, or use the ache as a gas to push ourselves to a better aircraft. This album was the latter for me. It confirmed me that now we have far more power in our spirit than we give ourselves credit score for. Other than the storm of its emotional and religious undercurrents, this album was bodily one thing that took an infinite quantity of will to perform as nicely. I actually needed to push myself, on the efficiency entrance, past what I did with the primary album and I needed to develop the sound a bit extra and discover new sonic horizons. There’s positively much more selection on By Will Alone than the primary album, which I suppose was inevitable as a result of chaotic way of thinking I used to be in on the time of its inception. Although a lot of the songs lyrically discover far more deeper and religious subjects than the final album, I nonetheless managed to squeeze in a couple of online game themes as ordinary, akin to traditional Doom and Amnesia: The Darkish Descent. I can’t appear get away from it!”

You may take heed to By Will Alone proper now—you’d be a idiot to not. The album is out this Friday, November 17, on Redefining Darkness.