Not many top-tier death metal bands can record and release an album a year and follow it with an extensive tour.
That’s hardly ever been the case for Manchester, England’s crushing, visceral Ingested.
Not many top-tier death metal bands can record and release an album a year and follow it with an extensive tour.
That’s hardly ever been the case for Manchester, England’s crushing, visceral INGESTED.
Since the release of their fifth album, 2020's Where Only God May Tread, the band has been on a creative tear that has produced almost a full record every year – even through the COVID-19 pandemic – but has resulted in the kind of musical growth that only comes from constantly practicing, playing, and writing.
The band’s latest output, The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams, is not only as innovative and brutal as their last disc — the bleak, firestorm Ashes Lie Still — it showcases a band willing to expand its creativity without sacrificing the ferocity that made it one of the most impressively destructive, technical death metal bands on the scene.
The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams is proof that once INGESTED sniffs out a trail of musical blood, they ravenously follow it until they’ve uncovered a festering feast.
Produced by the band with the guidance of recording engineer Nico Beninato, the record includes a guest appearance by Chimaira‘s Mark Hunter who provides guest vocals for the track “In Nothingness” and Sylosis singer Josh Middleton who contributes to “Expect To Fail,” as well as the striking cover art of David Seidman.
Whether pummeling listeners with double-bass rolls, blast-beats, and grinding rhythm; breaking it all down with jagged, staggered riffs, and piercing harmonics; or flooding the mix with rapid-fire bursts of minor key melodies, INGESTED has injected all of their experience, skill, and artistry into the ten trenchant new songs on The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams.
Where the new album differs from its predecessor isn’t in its brutality or melodicism, it’s in the songwriting and the way the tunes flow together in a way that’s vicious, but not morose.
Side A:
01. Paragon of Purity
02. Endless Machine
03. Where No Light Shines
04. Expect to Fail (feat. Josh Middleton of Sylosis)
05. Starve the Fire
Side B:
06. Numinous
07. In Nothingness (feat. Mark Hunter of Chimaira)
08. Pantheon
09. Kingdoms of Sand
10. A Path Once Lost
