The Destructive Cycle, by blackQueen

The Destructive Cycle

by blackQueen

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1.	The Destructive Cycle 02:26	buy track
2.	Feed the Worm 07:00	buy track
3.	Needle Grinding Well 03:10	buy track
4.	Infinitesimal 06:50	buy track
5.	Calefactorum Occulta 07:59	buy track
6.	The Sorcerer's Jian 11:14	buy track

about

blackQueen’s first new LP in four years, The Destructive Cycle, is a warlike and noisy approach to their tone. The album is still full of cavernous moments of ritualistic chanting and echoing guitars —provided in part by Leviathan mastermind Wrest, who also painted the record’s cover— but between them the band charges in a stampede blackened arch-thrash that feels like a spiked gauntlet around their esoteric spiritual moments. Songs like Feed The Worm and Infinitesimal show off their range, giving fans an example of something richer than black metal, more sepulchral than thrash, and sharper than doom —a perfect taste of that sweet spot right in the middle.

credits

released November 22, 2019

Vocals, guitars, Arp Axxe, samples: Pete Jay
Keys, synths, samples: Brandon Fitzsimons
Bass: Rob Beebe
Drums: Patrick Fiorentino

Guest vocals on Needle Grinding Well, Infinitesimal and Calefactorum Occulta: Paul Pavlovich
Guest vocals on The Sorcerer's Jian: Wrest

Words and music written by Pete Jay
Recorded and mixed by Brandon Fitzsimons at Airport Grocery between 2018-2019
Mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering
Additional engineering by Jeremy Davis
Title text by Lara Haynes Freed
Cover art by Jef Whitehead