Although it spans a lot of the coast of western South America, Chile has the excellence of being the southernmost nation on the earth. If Sarah Palin have been down there staring out at Drake Passage, she’d let you know she may see Antarctica. “And that is pertinent to what?” you’re rightly considering. Our featured artist, BlackFlow, are a doom outfit from Chile, although they reside within the capital Santiago, which assuredly has no view of Antarctica, however a swell view of the Andes. I don’t know if it’s their southern hemisphere type or the numerous distance between Santiago and the place doom was born in Birmingham, England, however BlackFlow play doom with a assured melodicism. On new single, “Neo Center Ages,” the music is saying “distress,” whereas the melodies supply one thing much less so. It’s a cool juxtaposition and it serves the quintet—Víctor Prades (vocals), Miguel Canessa (drums), Frane Franulic (guitars), Víctor Silva (guitars), Felipe Vuletich (bass)—nicely on this rumbling loper.

“Neo Center Ages” is the lead observe from BlackFlow’s debut eight-song full-length, Seeds of Downfall, which was produced by BlackFlow with Seba Puente who additionally engineered, combined and mastered the album at AudioCustom Estudio and Icono Estudio in Chile. It’s set for launch on CD and digitally on December 15 by way of Private Information.

BlackFlow have this to supply in regard to their new observe:

“Many fashionable societies fall into the insanity of considering that burning the whole lot indiscriminately achieves purification, very similar to within the Center Ages when the witch was pointed at with a finger to be redeemed via fireplace. When it seems that information leads us to more and more larger ranges of morality and mental sophistication, you uncover that the profound human tendency is to revert to the primitive, to concentrate on one’s personal self, and with violence, eliminate something that looks like a risk.”