Rise Above Dead have released Drowning Slowly and Voices Fade Away together, the first two songs from Voidmass, which Argonauta Records put out on 27 November.
Two singles on the same day is unusual and it tells you something about the record: this is a band whose pieces work as a pair of weights rather than as a hook and a chorus. Drowning Slowly came with a film, Voices Fade Away as audio only.
They have been going in Milan since 2009 and this is the fourth album. Stellar Filth was 2012, Heavy Gravity 2015 and Ulro 2020, and the arc across them runs from science fiction and space towards instrumental sludge, which Metal Archives notes as a change of theme rather than of genre.
Argonauta have carried them lately, the same Italian label that put out Radien in Finland and most of the European post and sludge records that never reach a bigger one.
The album arrives three weeks from now.