Beloved UK metal band GOD COMPLEX have returned with their vicious new single Salt and Ash and announced their signing to SharpTone Records.
On signing to their new label, the band comment: “We’re thrilled to be working with SharpTone on this release. We have longstanding friendships with other bands on the label and have always been impressed with their vision and the support they’ve extended to our peers. We’re humbled to be part of such an amazing roster of artists and elated to start this new chapter for the band.”
On their new single, the band continue: “Salt and Ash begins with a reprise of the melody from Worthy Host that closed the album. We wanted to show that in one sense we’re picking up exactly where we left off and to tie the new songs to what came before. It was important that we respect our previous body of work but demonstrate that we’re not content to rest on our laurels and retread old ground, which is why the song immediately veers into absolute chaos. The title Salt and Ash evokes a terminus, the emptiness left behind when everything has been destroyed.”
SALT AND ASH – OUT NOW
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Formed in the UK in 2017, God Complex emerged from the grim underbelly of the post-industrial north fusing the brutality of contemporary metal and hardcore to evoke the ennui of austerity-led immiseration.
Their 2018 EP Created Sick saw the band quickly become an unmistakable part of the UK’s burgeoning underground metal scene renowned for their explosive live performances.
They were still establishing their presence when the disruption and uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic forced the band into dissolution, with their 2021 LP To Decay in a Deathless World intended as a baleful epitaph of rage and regret.
What was to be the end produced instead a creative renaissance. The band began quietly working with longtime producer and collaborator Erik Bickerstaffe to distil the purest and angriest version of their sound.
The result is He Watches in Silence, a crazed 13-minute EP that sees the band eschew the polish of larger productions and embrace their messy and grimy core to create something at once more refined and savage than anything previously attempted.