Job for a Cowboy - Beyond the Chemical Doorway (Official Video)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2024
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Directed by Chris Klumpp - SFX & Makeup by Kelly Harris - VFX by Jim Hughes
Moon Healer is a vivid illustration of what happens when creativity, aggression, and volatility tangle for the first time in years. Like the band’s critically adored, 2014-released Sun Eater offering, Moon Healer is musically multifaceted, unabashedly brutal, and compellingly conceptual. Featuring a newly refreshed and reinspired lineup of frontman and co-founder Jonny Davy, guitarists Tony Sannicandro and Al Glassman, bassist Nick Schendzielos, and drummer (since 2020) Navene Koperweis, the band seamlessly picks up the mantle where Sun Eater left off.
Compared to past offerings, Moon Healer is as bone-crushing as JOB FOR A COWBOY has ever been. But it’s more consistent and conceptual, composed with the utmost enthusiasm and confidence. “The evolution of our sound has become a big part of the band,” Davy says. “As we mature as musicians, our tastes and interests naturally expand. With age comes more experience and ideas that we wouldn’t have considered in our earlier years.”
When discussing the lyrical genesis of songs “Grinding Wheels Of Ophanim,” “Into The Crystalline Crypts,” and latest single, “Beyond The Chemical Doorway,” Davy’s writing gets cryptic and elliptical-sounding, part Philip K. Dick, part Timothy Leary. “I envision this as a death metal album born from the mystical confines of an alchemist’s laboratory. The music acts as potent potions, inducing hallucinogenic journeys that unlock the secrets of the universe.”
With “Beyond The Chemical Doorway,” Davy explores Gnosticism -- an occult teaching based on Gnosis, a state of transcendence achieved through intuitive, unconventional means -- by way of Hieronymus Bosch’s art. Elaborates Davy, “On Moon Healer, we unravel the dismal narrative of a close friend consumed by an unwavering pursuit of enlightenment. They achieve this through a compulsive embrace of hallucinogenic drugs. This storyline emerges from the foundation set in our earlier album, Sun Eater, delving deeper into the intricacies brewing within our friend's psyche.
“When under the influence of these drugs,” he continues, “this individual claimed to encounter entities and find themselves in indescribable worlds that defy rational comprehension. Many who undergo such experiences draw intriguing parallels between diverse facets of Gnostic philosophy, biblical depictions of angels, and the stages of Bardo Thodol delineated in the Tibetan Book Of The Dead. In the album's opener, 'Beyond The Chemical Doorway,' our friend vividly voices his hallucinations, recounting the experience of breaching forbidden, gnostic-like realms, with each account culminating in the utter unraveling of his being.”
LYRICS:
Horrors of lower gnostic realms have been crusted shut and are never to be unsealed
A crystallized coating obscures unraveling hells from my occultic eye, forever to be congealed
But this membrane decalcifies, it exposes the organ of souls
It bestows an immense gravity, weaving subatomic black holes
I rot in repetition, an eternal decomposition
This organic antenna mounts as the esoteric crown of my vertebrae
This organ woefully speaks, transmitting my consciousness beyond a chemical doorway
My hallowed eye now weeps of caustic tears which boil through skin, nerves, and cells
My flesh atomizes, broadcasting my being amongst demons within ancient hells
This organic antenna mounts as the esoteric crown of my vertebrae
This organ woefully speaks, transmitting my consciousness beyond a chemical doorway
Doorway!
I rot in repetition, an eternal decomposition
I rot in repetition, for as the skin dissolves I discover my floating vessel glistens
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LYRICS:
Bass sounds so delicious in the mix
This is going to be such a good album. I can't wait to hear it in full.
B A S S S U P E R I O R I T Y
The bass being brought to the front of the mix and allowing the freedom to do nasty fills is the best thing that ever happened to this band and every metal band should be taking notes. So goooooood.
With “Beyond The Chemical Doorway,” frontman Jonny Davy explores Gnosticism - an occult teaching based on Gnosis, a state of transcendence achieved through intuitive, unconventional means - by way of Hieronymus Bosch’s art (a Dutch painter from Brabant.) Davy explains, "A friend of ours (while on hallucinogenic drugs) vividly voices his hallucinations, recounting the experience of breaching forbidden, gnostic-like realms, with each account culminating in the utter unraveling of his being.”
Damn the fish oil was too spicy for this fella
I paid for the whole guitar, I'm going to use the whole guitar
That bass giving me Obscura vibes and I like it
it is always great to hear a metal band that has a bass player that knows exactly how to play their instrument and not just trudge along riding the root notes of the guitarists.
This is produced so well. You can hear every instrument, perfectly distinct. Super clean.
In 2006, when I was in 8th grade, they changed my world for the first time by introducing me to dethcore.
Day in Black, Sun of Nihility and now this???
Can we take a moment to acknowledge just how well produced this is. The bass playing in particular is fucking exceptional. What an absolute banger of a track, can’t wait for the album gents. 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻
It's been 10 years and JFAC did not disappoint. Is it too early to say AOTY contender?
never expected JFAC to surpass the chug days which brought them here, there’s maturity in their musicianship and songs.. glad they followed their path 🤘🏽🤘🏽
In case no one has told you guys, whoever is playing and engineering the bass lines deserves a bottle of scotch and a kiss cause it's the best lines I've heard in years. Most people cheap out on the bass but not u guys, you celebrated every instrument in this awesome new progressive death metal you've created. I love the new stuff
Never knew these guys were still around. Listened first back in 8th grade I think in 07-08. Awesome.
🤘🤘 that bass tho
I'm really hyped for this album release. I'm so grateful for everyone's work in this band. Sun Eater has been one of the only metal albums in my rotation besides Meshuggah (honorable mention to Necrophagist). I listened to Mudvayne a lot, in large part because of how much I loved Ryan Martine's work on the Warwick bass. Nick is showing up here doing his own similar thing and I absolutely love it.