Artist: Khemmis
Title: Desolation
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN100
Release Year: 2018
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak
Special attributes: Digipak

Limited edition 4 panel embossed digipak

Colorado's doomed heavy metal sensation Khemmis continues to carve out a unique path for themselves with thier emotionally intense third album Desolation.

From the stadium-sized opening notes of ‘Bloodletting’ it is immediately evident that Khemmis are again putting distance between themselves and their earlier influences to inform a sound that is singularly their own. ‘Isolation’, is the album’s lead single and most immediate track, with the classic metal melodies the band have become revered for shining throughout. On epic closer ’From Ruin’ and throughout the entirety of the album, the lead vocals and melodies of Phil Pendergast are the clearest, most powerful and best arranged that the band has achieved. Working for the third time with Dave Otero at Flatline Audio in Denver, the band and producer now have the familiarity and mutual experience to arrive at the perfect symbiosis of songwriting, arrangement and production value.

While Khemmis are undeniably influenced by Doom and Classic Metal, to tag them with those labels doesn’t do justice to what’s accomplished on ‘Desolation’, a perfect representation of modern Heavy Metal that integrates the past in a way only possible in the present. ‘Desolation’ is not just the best Khemmis record to date but a testament to the quality that Heavy Metal is still capable of.

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. Bloodletting
2. Isolation
3. Flesh To Nothing
4. The Seer
5. Maw Of Time
6. From Ruin