Known as one of the founding fathers of the American death/funeral doom metal scene, New Jersey s EVOKEN have been a long-standing pillar over the band s 25 year pillage. Their new full-length album Hypnagogia is the band s sixth LP, their first in six years since their landmark Atra Mors album, and is a towering monolith that develops and redefines the band s sound that will only strengthen their position within the death/doom metal hierarchy where EVOKEN have always reigned. Hypnagogia is an expression of doom metal artistry where the listener will bear witness how EVOKEN can create a new and even more daring expression with a monument that will be recognized as a landmark. This tends to happen regardless with every EVOKEN release, but Hypnagogia sees the band expand their musical dynamics even more through the meticulous care and discrimination of the band s song writing process, Hypnagogia being a listening experience through a multitude of varying yet flourishing emotions. Pushing both their penchant for grandiose melodicism and their trademark aura of pulverizing supreme unparalleled heaviness even more, it is the base of this repercussion that makes Hypnagogia one of the most intense, compelling, and soul crushing EVOKEN listening experiences yet; one of euphoria, desperation, and hopelessness. - Six years since their landmark Atra Mors album, the godfathers of US death/doom metal return with one of their most triumphant albums in their illustrious repertoire - The new EVOKEN album will be recognized as the pinnacle death/doom metal album released this year from a band recognized as one of the most respected bands in the genre - For fans of My Dying Bride, old-school Paradise Lost, Bell Witch, old-school Anathema, Loss, Mournful Congregation TRACK LISTING: 1. The Fear After, 2. Valorous Consternation, 3. Schadenfreude, 4. Too Feign Ebullience, 5. Hypnagogia, 6. Ceremony Of Bleeding, 7. Hypnopompic, 8. The Weald Of Perished Men
