Photo by Matthew KadiGilead Media has been straight up murdering it this year (and every year, if we're being honest) in terms of releasing brilliant extreme music. Pale Chalice is the label's most recent coup, and alongside a new one from False, is primed to release what will surely stand as Gilead's prize black metal albums for this year.The band's new album, Negate the Infinite and Miraculous, is stripped down and focused. USBM's more experimental, meandering tendencies are wholly absent, leaving in their stead an orthodox mentality (and heavy reliance on good ol' tremolo and grimy punk beats). Understated melodies flutter carefully between the barbed wire riffs, but by and large, the end result is brutish, strident black metal with no frills, no bullshit, no cloying emotional turmoil or jazz interludes (unlike what one may encounter in vocalist and bassist Ephemeral Domignostika's other band, Mastery).It's also excellent, and we're stoked to be premiering it in its entirety below. Negate the Infinite and Miraculous is out 6/16 via Gilead Media, and the vinyl version is currently up for preorder here.
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