CONSTRUCT OF LETHE To Release New Album June 21 2024

Death metal band Construct of Lethe have come up with the kind of album that we don’t get to hear very often. It’s supposed to be a single 44-min track. The concept and intention is best explained by the band member Tony Petrocelly’s own words –

“This album is meant to be taken as a single track. There are 12 relatively clear sections that it can be broken into, but this album feels like more than the sum of its parts, if that makes sense.

I wrote the lyrics this time around. They’re very personal and describe periods of depression and self-hatred I’ve gone through over the last 5 years. The lyrics are told from the point of view of a person’s inner voice, but that inner voice hates the person it belongs to. Over the course of the album, it lets its feelings be known in an attempt to make the person kill themself, which ultimately it does. The title A Kindness Dealt in Venom signifies that the inner voice thinks it’s doing the world a favor by poisoning its person’s mind and getting them to remove themself from the world.”

Construct of Lethe have created a deeply personal, autobiographical concept album dealing with suicidal depression which is meant to be listened to seamlessly as a single song. They’ve transcended the death metal confines on this album to achieve the kind of expression that encompasses a wide range of emotions and to that extent they’ve borrowed influences of other styles such as industrial, black metal, doom metal, ambient, etc. and even used synth and electronics to achieve that. The album traverses various dimensions while remaining coherent as well as cohesive, with the writing always coming off as intuitive, flowing naturally and never forced. As the battle rages on with the inner voice coming to terms with the persisting life, one can experience the undulating highs and lows via the music, and more often than not, following moments of bleakness, there’s an epic, cathartic outcome as if by way of an epiphany. The upbeat sections replete with the Morbid Angel-esque riffing make an appearance too along with the flurry of leads which the band have perfected over the years. All in all, it’s a rich, varied and unique album that needs to be treated differently. It’s meant not just to be heard but to be experienced.

You can listen to a couple of back-to-back tracks on Bandcamp: https://constructoflethedm.bandcamp.com/album/a-kindness-dealt-in-venom

Tracklist:
1. Artifice
2. Bete Noir
3. Contempt
4. Denial in Abstraction
5. Flickering
6. I am the Lionkiller
7. Labyrinthine Terror
8. Monument to Failure
9. Paroxysm as Pragmatism
10. Raw Nerve, Iron Will
11. Sacrosanct
12. Tension – There is Nothing for You Here

Stream/Order:
https://constructoflethedm.bandcamp.com/album/a-kindness-dealt-in-venom

Line up:
Kishor Haulenbeek (Black Harvest) – Vocals
Tony Petrocelly (Near Death Condition) – Guitar, bass, synth
Patrick Bonvin (Near Death Condition) – Lead guitar
Kevin Paradis (Benighted) – Drums, percussion

Artwork:
Kishor Haulenbeek

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