Full Album Premiere: Bog Body – ‘Cryonic Crevasse Cult’

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The power of the bog is real. If you happen to slough your mortal coil while in a bog, there’s a good chance that many thousands of years later, your apparently well-preserved corpse will resurface and you’ll be given the ignominious, and rather impersonal, moniker of “bog body.” Sad. This Bog Body are from New York City and both members—SVR (bass/vocals) and JP (drums/vocals)—are currently among the living and making a helluva racket for two people, neither of whom is a guitarist. All hail the mighty distortion pedal(s), because who needs a six-stringer when four overdriven strings give you all the gnarl you need.

Cryonic Crevasse Cult is the duo’s full-length debut and also first for Profound Lore. The album was recorded at Strange Weather Studios in New York by Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Algiers), mixed by Evan Mersky (Triumvir Foul, Witch Vomit) and  mastered by Dan Lowndes (Cruciamentum). It’s set for release on CD, LP and digitally on May 20. There will also be a cassette version released via Stygian Black Hand. You can preorder all formats here

Here’s what the band had to say about its debut:

“Zeroed in on the frigid history of humanity lost to the steppes and poles of this earth, Cryonic Crevasse Cult emerges drenched in the viscera of the human experience giving a sound to these endless deaths. The duality of life and death, central to all of our releases, is under the knife of the cult here as we forge new paths in our textures and song structures.

We expanded upon the tenants of our previous releases by focusing on atmosphere, song structure and variance of our sound with this album. As always, the primeval urge of striking skins and metered abuse of low frequencies captivates us. The sound of pulsing blood in your temples and the frenzy of suffocation is the headspace of pure thought.

The hammer and nails of ritual death, Bog Body stand in defiance of the mundane and expected and we create music wholly for those devoted to the ancient ways of early black and death metal for a concoction of unfettered war doom.”