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.
Whether it's Yob's 'Clearing the Path to Ascend' or Napalm Death's 'Scum' in terms of individual song length, its all good. Im reading alot of comments about what this album isnt, or lacks. Im just appreciative for what is, new Inter Arma. This onion has alot of layers to peel, but im beyond stoked to be able to listen to it.
When I first listened to this album, it didn't do much for me. I thought they missed the mark somewhere. The problem was me because I didn't just let it be and experience it as a very pleasant body of work. This becomes more so with repeated listening.
kinda wish they had longer tracks.... all the album previews show that the longest track is 7 mins... everything else is under 8 minutes at least. All I'm saying is I miss the 10minute songs if this is the direction they'll be going in.... I'm interested to see what they do
@@T.J.ChildersI hope it didn't come off super negatively I do geniunely enjoy these new singles so far, it's an interesting direction, but I do kinda love the 10 min long songs in your catalogue ("The Long Road Home", "Primordial Wound" etc). Regardless, I'm interested to see where u guys go from here with New Heaven. Anyways much love TJ, hoping you guys make a visit to the UK again!
@@ThatOneGuy7550I didn’t take it as negative at all. I DID think it was funny, though, because pretty much unanimously people say GODDAMN ya’ll got some long ass songs! Can you shorten them things up???
no 10+ min tracks on this new album, kinda disappointing. I miss the sludge-y doom opuses from Sulphur English.... that said I think this is a better song than the first single
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.
Totally agree but times ten at least!
Something about it keeps bringing me back.
There are a lot of subliminal messages deep in the song. Most of them are Subway ads.
@@T.J.Childersyou sure it ain’t yer sexy chest?
Haven't checked in on Inter Arma in many years.
I'm happy to see they are alive and still heavy.
Great transitions between the clean vocals and the death vocals.
Sick, dudes. Love the 90s style vid. Great guitars, Pink Floyd vibes, hell yah
TJ's Pink Short Shorts: "Finally! I'm in a music video!"
...music video is shot in greyscale
We seriously talked about leaving the shorts pink in the video. I still think we made a mistake.
Frickin' beautiful!
Blowing me away!
Whether it's Yob's 'Clearing the Path to Ascend' or Napalm Death's 'Scum' in terms of individual song length, its all good. Im reading alot of comments about what this album isnt, or lacks. Im just appreciative for what is, new Inter Arma. This onion has alot of layers to peel, but im beyond stoked to be able to listen to it.
When I first listened to this album, it didn't do much for me. I thought they missed the mark somewhere. The problem was me because I didn't just let it be and experience it as a very pleasant body of work. This becomes more so with repeated listening.
Oh hell yeah
🔥🔥
Beautiful music!!
Great song, great video 🤘
Deserves more recognition.
YYYYEEEESSSS la classe!!!!!!!🤘🤘🤘🤘
Beautiful ❤
Best band in the world, nicest dudes ever ❤❤
That’s nice !
wtf...simply amazing!
Serious Crow city vibez on this. Love it!
If they played music like this in church, a lot more people would go.
Hard to disagree there!
Killer song!
You shouldve put an "addiction warning" on this one, wow! This tune for its atmosphere alone, Ive replayed without count
Getting better by the album, epic!
Very good like this music video
So goddamn sick. Fucking love this band.
Love you guys, this sounds great
Great vibe!
This rules!
beautiful!!!
Necessary sound.
Damn, it was so good, 5+ minutes went by so fast!
kinda wish they had longer tracks.... all the album previews show that the longest track is 7 mins... everything else is under 8 minutes at least. All I'm saying is I miss the 10minute songs if this is the direction they'll be going in.... I'm interested to see what they do
@@ThatOneGuy7550hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, you’re literally the first person that’s EVER said that about our song lengths. Thank you!
@@T.J.ChildersI hope it didn't come off super negatively I do geniunely enjoy these new singles so far, it's an interesting direction, but I do kinda love the 10 min long songs in your catalogue ("The Long Road Home", "Primordial Wound" etc). Regardless, I'm interested to see where u guys go from here with New Heaven. Anyways much love TJ, hoping you guys make a visit to the UK again!
@@ThatOneGuy7550I didn’t take it as negative at all. I DID think it was funny, though, because pretty much unanimously people say GODDAMN ya’ll got some long ass songs! Can you shorten them things up???
Welp, this rules.
Jiffy pop building!
is this on 0.5 speed?
You should hear it on double speed!
My man never heard of doom metal
Genre??? 🤔
Dirty mystical hillbilly metal
Made with love ❤@@T.J.Childers
no 10+ min tracks on this new album, kinda disappointing. I miss the sludge-y doom opuses from Sulphur English.... that said I think this is a better song than the first single