We asked Dayan from Dipygus to do the art for us, we really fucked with the Warp Chamber art and his style in general just felt right. We then recorded with Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio in November or December of 2019. – What can you tell us about the creation of CosmoSteelBlood Trinity? Did Covid cause any issues in the process?Īll of the songs for this EP were written over time while we were playing shows and things before Covid. Eventually, we wanted to move into a heavier sound and knew we needed Josè, being the best and coolest metal drummer we know. Coincidentally Brandon didn’t wanna do vocals anymore anyway so I just became the vocalist. Brandon had to get his wisdom teeth removed and they were bummed that they would have to miss a show so I jokingly offered to cover for him. Brandon was doing vocals for a punk/hardcore band with Harley and Jeff at the time, I was playing bass for a punk/thrash band, and Josè was playing for a djent band as well. I went to a different school than all of them and didn’t become total friends until we all barely graduated. Harley met Jeff, Brandon and Josè in high school and I didn’t move into the valley until I was 15. Yo! Thank you for hitting us up! We are from the San Fernando Valley, and our friendships go back as early as freshman year. First up, can you tell us a bit about the band, who’s involved and how you came together? – AN: Hey! Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. So, eager to find out more we reached out to vocalist Galax, who shed some light on the band’s history, as well as the sci-fi influences that inspire her lyrics and why the band is fighting back against metal’s overly masculine and elitist nature.

We missed this thunderous release when it dropped back in November, but we’ve been making up for lost time in recent weeks. An overarching concept involving celestial overlords and interdimensional aliens explores themes of oppression, whilst standout track ‘From The Nothing’ takes on predatory priests and also gives TERFs a well-earned kick in the teeth. Instead of cheesy sound effects or superfluous synths, Greenwitch channel the cosmos by forging metal so devastating that it simply has to be from a dimension beyond our own.īut CosmoSteelBloodTrinity is more than mere sci-fi escapism, in fact the EP is littered with themes that resonate profoundly in the current climate. The release spans six ruthless bouts of guttural death metal, blending the grit and groove of early Swedish death metal with the more labyrinthine insanity of modern cosmically-minded bands like Blood Incantation, Outer Heaven and Tomb Mold. If you need convincing, just look to CosmoSteelBlood Trinity, the latest mind-bending EP from San Fernando Valley group Greenwitch. For pure caveman ferocity and guttural brutality, no genre goes quite as hard as death metal, but the genre’s crop of cosmically-minded practitioners take things to a new level, weaving in the otherworldly imagery of sci-fi and the existential dread of cosmic horror, all set across the backdrop of an infinitely expanding universe.

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