Artist: Khemmis
Title: Deceiver
Label: Nuclear Blast Records
Cat #: NBA61392
Release Year: 2021
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Deceiver is the fourth album from the US doom metal band Khemmis.

The fourth album Deceiver delivers six tracks of desolate, soul-awakening heaviness encapsulating a project that has been nearly three years in the making. With a title that reflects the internal struggles that many of us battle in our daily lives, Deceiver is a ferociously honest and appetizingly raw piece of musical artistry.

“Thematically, all of the songs are about the many ways that we are tricked into believing these stories about ourselves – that we are broken, that we are not good enough, that our genetics determine our fate. This title is the label that we put on our minds as a force that tricks us into believing these stories,” describes vocalist and guitarist Phil Pendergast. “The record’s lyrical trajectory is similar to Dante’s descent into an Inferno of his own making. It is our darkest album to date.”

Recommended if you like: Mastodon, Pallbearer, Conan, Hooded Menace, YOB, Bell Witch, SubRosa, Crypt Sermon, Mutoid Man, Rivers of Nihil,  Red Fang, The Sword, Agalloch, Kylesa, Black Tusk, Baroness

Track Listing:
1. Avernal gate
2. House of cadmus
3. Living pyre
4. Shroud of lethe
5. Obsidian crown
6. The astral road