Catapult The Dead is a sextet from Oakland,
they have been together for around 5 years, playing the style of music which
could be broadly described as atmospheric doom. Thematically their
debut full length, ‘All is Sorrow’ released
in 2014, felt very cinematic and is very layered production wise, driven as
you’d expect from a massive sounding guitar tone, but what felt quite unique is
the use of keyboard. Indeed it is the use of keys which made the
band feel truly unique, giving their music a dynamic appeal. Much like the
movie The Matrix, no one can really
be told what is, you have to see it for yourself. In fact if you
substituted Catapult the Dead for the Matrix in that quote, it quite accurately summarized their debut album
What
Catapult the Dead have managed to do in their short tenure,
is to produce progressive sounding doom, oppressively heavy but never idle, in
the sense that it never seems to repeat singular repetitious phrases of
music. Their music is stylistically cinematic because it feels
typical of how films are made, like there is one continuous story to be told,
and it is always moving forward, evoking a sense that their music is a
narrative to some macabre Lovercraftian tale. I feel Catapult the Dead
are innovators and perhaps one of the best bands no one seems to know about,
but that is about to change with the release of their spectacular new album “A
Universal Emptiness” released on 15
November 2017 via Doom Stew Records, and
we’re stoked to be able to premiere a brand new track from the album which you
stream in full below. Preorders of the
album are available here
