Spiritual Anguish by Eudaemon

releases May 23, 2025

A lonely string is plucked, soft sepulchre seems to bleed through the speakers, before a dissonant miasma creeps forward penetrating ears, mind and bone. Eudaemon have found you. Many bands discover their truth in dissonant and subversive black metal, plenty more have taken to the blending, bending and rending of multiple genres. Eudaemon have skirted both, while honoring them all at once, also invoking the spirit of bands like City of Caterpillar, Krallice, and at times On the Might of Princes. The shattered porcelain howls and unconquerable wall of sound ebb and flow, through inspired solo, contemplative interlude and frenzied melodic exchange, explicitly illustrating the bands sound as an anchor to their namesake, both a nod to and inversion of the holy higher self.

Members have found their inspiration across the heavy music spectrum citing influences that include Gojira, Senza and KillSwitch Engage to give a small taste of the bands collective musical palette, tracks like the blistering “Karst”, exemplify the bands intensity. “Empty Hallway” showcasing biting lyricism, which guitarist and vocalist Andie describes as “processing negative emotions I'm feeling as a kind of shout into the void, and like falling into the cathartic release of emotions in intense music.” Two tracks of six that help makeup “Spiritual Anguish”, the bands latest offering. Here every element of influence and innovation is on display, all culminating in the albums final track “In Mirrors”, a genetic footprint of everything Eudaemon embodies and does so well. A sung, almost folk-like, opening soon plunges into soulful and complex riffing mixed with immensely heavy sections trading off classic metal singing passages that would’ve made James Dio crease a grin, before melodically strutting into massive and cacophonic sections of black metal fused with thrash, hardcore and punk.

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