New Heaven, INTER ARMA’s latest album, is a compelling testament to perseverance, top to bottom. Its thicket of ever-dense layers of doom, death, and black metal occasionally let bits of light slip in, fleeting reminders to keep going amid the tumult. New Heaven marks a sharp turn for the band, showcasing some of the most extreme and angular songwriting INTER ARMA has ever laid bare. Known for their cinematic take on sludgy, extremely cavernous, and borderline psychedelic Metal, the Richmond band broadens their dynamics by seesawing between piledriving momentum and swirling oblivion. New Heaven crushers and conquers, and illustrates what INTER ARMA can truly be. Take the title track, with its hair-raising lead riff stemming from drummer/songwriter TJ Childers’ challenge to himself to write a nonsensically dissonant part that he ended up loving. The song spirals upward into a punishing Death-Metal march, Meanwhile, vocalist Mike Paparo’s stentorian bellows the bludgeon, above an impossibly complicated web of riffs and rhythms. From the get go, New Heaven and the opening title track eschews any restraint - INTER ARMA is completely unchained. Paparo’s keen and empathetic lyrics about innocent victims of war, addiction, and social apathy affirm that feeling, as a survivor grimaces at the carnage behind him and presses ahead best he can. “You stared into the brutish jaws of strife’s heartless device,” he growls into a chthonic blitz during “The Children the Bombs Overlooked,” a late-album powerhouse. “And you turned your back to hell.” That forward march out of madness is New Heaven in an armor-plated nutshell. Though this is indeed another INTER ARMA triumph, it is not a triumphant album, meant to offer some glib or naïve assurance that everything will be fine. What evidence is there for that, really, either on a record where friends are forced into submission, addiction, suicide, or retreat to a world where suffering remains the lingua franca? No, INTER ARMA and New Heaven are too realistic and experienced for that. This is, instead, a record about enduring brambles and curses and lasting long enough to make something profound, honest, and even affirming about it all every now and again-exactly as INTER ARMA has on New Heaven.
Interesting track and direction. Maybe it's just me, but I get some Blut Aus Nord type of vibes. Great to hear these guys evolve their sound. Sulphur English was probably my favourite record in 2019.
Absolutely love all of their previous stuff, it really stands out from everything else "heavy" or "brutal."Rather than relying on a "paint by numbers" ethic, it seeks to and accomplishes the painting of unconventional and wholly unique musical tapestries. This is what I gather from just one song. Cant wait to see (hear)what the rest has in store. Its unfortunate the hate that it inevitably generates, as their is plenty of other music that exists that any listener would be happy with. Its a gift, not a requirement to meet certain specifications based on what the listener likes. In short, if you dont like it, listen to something else. Nobody is holding a gun to your head. There is an entire ocean of music just waiting to be explored. Im stoked to hear the rest.
Don't listen to anybody cause this album is fucking killer! People always seem to complain about anything and everything...enjoy it for what it is and if doesn't do anything for you move on to something that does. New Heaven was definitely worth the wait! Hopefully I can catch y'all on the road soon. Stay safe and watch out for those normal people out there. 🤘🏻😁
These guys stole the show at Maryland Deathfest last year.....and I love when that happens.....you just roll in to see the next band & you are like "wait who is this??'....looking forward to this & seeing them next time around...
MY LIKE FOR THISKIND OF MUSIC SENT ME HERE... I DONT WATCH PEOPLE REACT TO LISTENING TO MUSIC TO FIND MY MUSIC FOR ONE I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE THINKS OF MUSIC I CARE WHAT I THINK OF MUSIC TWO ITS JUST A STUPID AS WATCHING AN UNBOXING VIDEO HEY EVERYONE WATCH ME OPEN THESE MATERIAL ITEMS I BOUGHT WHO FUCKING CARES WHAT PEOPLE BUY WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF A MUSICAL RELEASE LISTEN FOR YOURSELF AND FORMULATE YOUR OWN OPINION.
![INTER ARMA - New Heaven [FULL ALBUM STREAM]](/img/n.gif)
New Heaven, INTER ARMA’s latest album, is a compelling testament to perseverance, top to bottom. Its thicket of ever-dense layers of doom, death, and black metal occasionally let bits of light slip in, fleeting reminders to keep going amid the tumult.
New Heaven marks a sharp turn for the band, showcasing some of the most extreme and angular songwriting INTER ARMA has ever laid bare. Known for their cinematic take on sludgy, extremely cavernous, and borderline psychedelic Metal, the Richmond band broadens their dynamics by seesawing between piledriving momentum and swirling oblivion. New Heaven crushers and conquers, and illustrates what INTER ARMA can truly be.
Take the title track, with its hair-raising lead riff stemming from drummer/songwriter TJ Childers’ challenge to himself to write a nonsensically dissonant part that he ended up loving. The song spirals upward into a punishing Death-Metal march, Meanwhile, vocalist Mike Paparo’s stentorian bellows the bludgeon, above an impossibly complicated web of riffs and rhythms. From the get go, New Heaven and the opening title track eschews any restraint - INTER ARMA is completely unchained.
Paparo’s keen and empathetic lyrics about innocent victims of war, addiction, and social apathy affirm that feeling, as a survivor grimaces at the carnage behind him and presses ahead best he can. “You stared into the brutish jaws of strife’s heartless device,” he growls into a chthonic blitz during “The Children the Bombs Overlooked,” a late-album powerhouse. “And you turned your back to hell.” That forward march out of madness is New Heaven in an armor-plated nutshell.
Though this is indeed another INTER ARMA triumph, it is not a triumphant album, meant to offer some glib or naïve assurance that everything will be fine.
What evidence is there for that, really, either on a record where friends are forced into submission, addiction, suicide, or retreat to a world where suffering remains the lingua franca? No, INTER ARMA and New Heaven are too realistic and experienced for that. This is, instead, a record about enduring brambles and curses and lasting long enough to make something profound, honest, and even affirming about it all every now and again-exactly as INTER ARMA has on New Heaven.
I was truly hoping for new Inter Arma this year. Awesome.
The thing I like about Inter Arma is you just dont know what you are going to get. This is delightfully weird.
A great band, way too underrated. This song is ok, now can't wait for the whole album...
🤘🤪
Interesting track and direction. Maybe it's just me, but I get some Blut Aus Nord type of vibes. Great to hear these guys evolve their sound. Sulphur English was probably my favourite record in 2019.
Absolutely love all of their previous stuff, it really stands out from everything else "heavy" or "brutal."Rather than relying on a "paint by numbers" ethic, it seeks to and accomplishes the painting of unconventional and wholly unique musical tapestries. This is what I gather from just one song. Cant wait to see (hear)what the rest has in store. Its unfortunate the hate that it inevitably generates, as their is plenty of other music that exists that any listener would be happy with. Its a gift, not a requirement to meet certain specifications based on what the listener likes. In short, if you dont like it, listen to something else. Nobody is holding a gun to your head. There is an entire ocean of music just waiting to be explored. Im stoked to hear the rest.
Yes!
Don't listen to anybody cause this album is fucking killer!
People always seem to complain about anything and everything...enjoy it for what it is and if doesn't do anything for you move on to something that does.
New Heaven was definitely worth the wait! Hopefully I can catch y'all on the road soon.
Stay safe and watch out for those normal people out there.
🤘🏻😁
🤘💥🤘
You had me at Inter Arma.
Incredible work the boys and incredible production by our main man Mikey
These guys stole the show at Maryland Deathfest last year.....and I love when that happens.....you just roll in to see the next band & you are like "wait who is this??'....looking forward to this & seeing them next time around...
I definitely noticed a great connection between all members when I saw them live. They’re truly special
Makes me think of Pyrrhon for some reason. I love it, I can't wait to buy this.
Some Thantifaxath, too.
they mustve been listening to a lot of disso and tech death albums while making this one
'Obscura', 'Colored Sands' and 'Pleiades Dust' era Gorguts influence comes to mind.
@@aaroncadwallader9794inter arma should listen to some ulcerate.... just sayin
@@aaroncadwallader9794 they should also check out Ulcerate
This might surprise you. But Fantano sent me here 😂 this is crushing in the best possible way.
For real?
F***ing brutal and absolutely transporting.
This has such a naked city vibe from leng tche and torture garden era
This is some pretty good stuff.
Inter Arma: Night Country
lol
no
Awesome!!!
Buenas..necesito mas escuchas para asimilar esto🤯🤔🍻
Mission accomplished!!! 😘
great sound!
This is good stuff
Haunting crunching dark creepy song and video. 👹🤘❤🔥
i love this song so awsome
excellent!!!
Muy linda canción ❤
They threw everything but the kitchen sink in this song.
Saw the tracklist. No 10 mins sludge doom epics, and it's under 40 mins. Idk how I'm gonna feel about this
MY LIKE FOR THISKIND OF MUSIC SENT ME HERE... I DONT WATCH PEOPLE REACT TO LISTENING TO MUSIC TO FIND MY MUSIC FOR ONE I DONT CARE WHAT ANYONE THINKS OF MUSIC I CARE WHAT I THINK OF MUSIC TWO ITS JUST A STUPID AS WATCHING AN UNBOXING VIDEO HEY EVERYONE WATCH ME OPEN THESE MATERIAL ITEMS I BOUGHT WHO FUCKING CARES WHAT PEOPLE BUY WHO CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK OF A MUSICAL RELEASE LISTEN FOR YOURSELF AND FORMULATE YOUR OWN OPINION.
Kinda underwhelming but I'm looking forward to the new album regardless, its been so long!
I hope it's the YT compression but that is one terrible drum sound. It's not St. Anger bad, but still pretty bad.
Sounds great on my end.
That bass drum does sound like ass
So what’s a “good” drum sound to you, Bob Rock?
@@T.J.Childers a bass drum that doesn't sound like someone slapping mud for one thing
@@bradtraq1Dragged through the mud?? All I can hear is high end in the kicks!