MISCREANCE Unearth Lost Album Reminiscence in Full

Reminiscence isn't an attempt to recall death metal's glory days. Opener "Trait d'Union" begins with funky, bouncing, tribal percussion rather than blast beats, recalling a time long before the dawn of Charvel guitars. "We still play old-school tech-thrash," guitarist Andrea Granauro says. But through a collective hallucination, Miscreance venture into dark territory the genre has yet to travel: lead single "Scalp Ceremony" shreds at a blood-thirsty pace before banging heads with a flurry of bongos. "The Northern Italian quartet take the old-school technical death metal blueprint—Death, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, all the good stuff—and drag it through a prehistoric hallucination full of tribal percussion, psychic violence, alien ritual and fretboard abuse," writes Decibel.

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Percussionist Leo Di Angilla guests throughout the record on percussion, digeridoo, flute and berimbau, deepening the album's tribal instrumentation. "Adding the tribal instruments to certain songs deepens the connection to the overall story that the album is telling," guitarist Tommaso Cappelletti explains.

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While recorded in their native Italy, Miscreance discovered the concept for Reminiscence by sifting through the sands of time. Along with tech-thrash riffs and proggy tempo shifts, the band uncover digeridoo, berimbau, telepathic surgeries, strange tongues and a burning celestial corpse. "What we've created is a 'lost album'," says bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol. "It comes from an unknown civilization that's both futuristic and extremely primitive. Through psychic powers and capabilities that transcend earthly comprehension, these primordial extraterrestrials have achieved total neural unity. Yet innate wickedness still lures inside of them, harboring the need for preys, scalps and lust." Climbing "The Moaning Hill" is not for the faint of heart, but the intricate twists along its perverse path lead to truly sacred pleasures.

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Miscreance states:

"After meandering through the sands of time, we are finally unearthing our new album Reminiscence. Each of the nine songs on the album take a look into a forgotten past. Together, they merge into a mind-altering experience.

Reminiscence is a concept album that tells the story of a lost civilization, suspended in time. Gifted with psychic powers and driven by an insatiable hunger for prey, this civilization once lived in symbiosis with nature, only for their age of splendor to give way to inexorable decline.

While writing, we pushed ourselves toward a state of total neural unity, just as the lost tribe at the heart of our story once did. We became so deeply captivated by the concept that we decided to reinterpret the lost album as coherently and faithfully as possible, bringing its sound to life again through an array of tribal and

unconventional instruments, unearthly time signatures and ritualistic chants.

Lose yourself into the abyss and find your true self beyond the edge of reality!"

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