CIVEROUS - Shrouded In Crystals (From 'Maze Envy' LP, 2024)

CIVEROUS
Shrouded in Crystals
From 'Maze Envy'
Releasing March 22nd, 2024
LP / CD / TAPE / DIGITAL
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1. The Azure Eye (Intro)
2. Shrouded in Crystals
3. Endless Symmetry
4. Labyrinth Charm (featuring Derek Rydquist)
5. Levitation Tomb
6. Maze Envy
7. Geryon (The Plummet)
Upon hearing ‘Decrepit Flesh Relic’, the first album from Civerous, one was left with a feeling of intense suffocating weight and agonal prostration in the service of bone-breaking death hymns. With the towering new album, ‘Maze Envy’, LA’s most creatively destructive Death / Doom ensemble let loose a freshly evolved but no less brutal conflagration of immersive horror and morbid lamentation.
Where Death / Doom may often stay in safe and unadventerous realms of narrow focus, Maze Envy’ presents a more far-reaching breadth of ambition, where unusual technicality, progressive atmospheres, string flourishes and chaotic mysticism radiate a purple light of the soul’s ascension from the black oceans of dread Civerous inhabit. Chain-dragging dirge, blackened blasting, and the savage ferocity of Lord Foul’s hellish vocal exorcisms exalt ‘Mazy Envy’ with a hellish grandeur within its myriad paths to oblivion.
With a massively crushing sound, ‘Maze Envy’ is end times music for an age in which that reckoning feels unfathomably close. Civerous batter the senses into a state of labyrinthian turmoil from which emergence is ever more implausible.
Lord Foul - Vocals
Daniel Salinas - Guitars
Alonso Santana - Guitars
Drew Horton - Bass
Aidan Neuner - Drums
Recorded between Winter 2022 - Summer 2023
Engineered, mixed and produced by Andrew Solis at Deadstare Audio
Additional engineering by Kevin McCombs at The Steakhouse, North Hollywood
Mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Sound
Cover art by Juanjo Castellano
Photography by Juliet Guzman
Layout by Dan Fried

[@ThinKwiQ]

Stank-face the entire listen. This is f'n gnarly🤘🤘🤘

[@CrashDurden]

Fantastic, dreary at moments with intensity panic and anxiety like you’re in a maze

[@_Mike.85]

Another day... another 20 Buck Banger.

[@gothicfriar]

Man, that eerie beginning... perked my ears up immediately. Amazing track! This album is going to decimate all.

[@Redrum1981]

Can't wait for this masterpiece 🤘

[@van.hanson]

Been loving 20 Buck Spin's catalog! Pre-ordered this album. I can't wait!

[@Pgs.99]

The beginning melted my face off

[@alexlopes3930]

LET'S GOOOOO!

[@jasujokelainen5073]

Sewerable!!!!

[@jamesangel4366]

Yay

[@patrickpira1527]

Tremendous! 🤘💀🤘

[@UponThisAltar]

I can get over how visceral the Civerous listening experience is. There are very few bands I've come across with this unique approach to DM, but Civerous is absolutely going on my end of year list if the rest of Maze Envy is as incredible as both singles. The only other bands I can think of with a similarly unique approach off the top of my head are Inter Arma and Haunter.

[@edmundsackbauer2284]

Absolutely gorgeous

[@jaynegill7257]

Sounds amazing

[@mastergabbelz8615]

Great !

[@thedruidzmademe666]

these guys write the sickest riffs

[@AlexH4774]

So fucking good, love the production.

[@SinisterSeaSabbath]

Fucking awesome \m/

[@malevolentsound]

Incredible

[@miseklukov7236]

Fucking insane shit😮

[@DrownEmOut]

Holy FUCK

[@josedias1387]

Can't wait for the all beast! 👊

[@Noonrar]

Thanks for listening y'all! Can't wait for the album drop!

[@FreeRadicalX]

Knockout track.

[@Grindermetalhead]

So fucking disgusting. I loved every second of it.

[@humanbeing4841]

🍈 brought me here.

[@matthewkinne7662]

Really good! Well written, talented, but not too much polish.

[@ryanpaul1403]

killer shit as usual