CIVEROUS - Shrouded In Crystals (From ’Maze Envy’ LP, 2024)

CIVEROUS Shrouded in Crystals From ’Maze Envy’ Releasing March 22nd, 2024 LP / CD / TAPE / DIGITAL 1. The Azure Eye (Intro) 2. Shrouded in Crystals 3. Endless Symmetry 4. Labyrinth Charm (featuring Derek Rydquist) 5. Levitation Tomb 6. Maze Envy 7. Geryon (The Plummet) Upon hearing ‘Decrepit Flesh Relic’, the first album from Civerous, one was left with a feeling of intense suffocating weight and agonal prostration in the service of bone-breaking death hymns. With the towering new album, ‘Maze Envy’, LA’s most creatively destructive Death / Doom ensemble let loose a freshly evolved but no less brutal conflagration of immersive horror and morbid lamentation. Where Death / Doom may often stay in safe and unadventerous realms of narrow focus, Maze Envy’ presents a more far-reaching breadth of ambition, where unusual technicality, progressive atmospheres, string flourishes and chaotic mysticism radiate a purple light of the soul’s ascension from the black oceans of dread Civerous inhabit. Chain-dragging dirge, blackened blasting, and the savage ferocity of Lord Foul’s hellish vocal exorcisms exalt ‘Mazy Envy’ with a hellish grandeur within its myriad paths to oblivion. With a massively crushing sound, ‘Maze Envy’ is end times music for an age in which that reckoning feels unfathomably close. Civerous batter the senses into a state of labyrinthian turmoil from which emergence is ever more implausible. Lord Foul - Vocals Daniel Salinas - Guitars Alonso Santana - Guitars Drew Horton - Bass Aidan Neuner - Drums Recorded between Winter 2022 - Summer 2023 Engineered, mixed and produced by Andrew Solis at Deadstare Audio Additional engineering by Kevin McCombs at The Steakhouse, North Hollywood Mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Sound Cover art by Juanjo Castellano Photography by Juliet Guzman Layout by Dan Fried