Canada’s AUGURIUM Releases Brutal, Slamming Album Unearthly Will
Regina, SK’s brutal death metal act Augurium is now releasing their third studio release Unearthly Will to follow the band’s second album 2018’s Unhallowed Ascendance, and 2017 EP Omen, which were stepping stones of straight-up brutal death metal, to a now more refined, darkened, carefully crafted monstrous offering. Unearthly Will is a culmination of core ideas that remain consistent and brutal yet experimental. It brings a dark musical aspect to lyrical themes of light and inner thought processes. The band shares their thoughts:
“This project has been an awesome journey and a welcome challenge to create over the past two years. All of our experiences have been absorbed and expressed within the walls of sound. As a tapestry is weaved together, each day as a thread towards the colossal effort that went towards this death metal release. We hope that our listeners enjoy this album for what it is, and perhaps join us when we perform in your area.”
Listen to Unearthly Will below and learn more about Augurium via our Five Questions With segment.
Care to introduce yourself to our readers?
Our name is Augurium. We’re a death metal band with roots in Saskatchewan, but we have a few members in BC as well. We have five members; Yianni, our vocalist and lyricist, Logan; our lead guitarist and composer of orchestral sections, Cejay, our rhythm guitarist. In BC we have Reid, our bassist, and Taylor on drums.
Our music can be described as symphonic death metal, most of our listeners would describe us as similar to Septicflesh, Belphegor, or Lorna Shore.
Tell us a bit about your most recent release.
We just released two singles from our full-length LP Unearthly Will. Entitled “Ancient Grimoire” and “Phantom Parallax”. These are our first releases in over 4 years and capture a brand new sound as we delve into a new style of death metal from our previous releases. The new material keeps a foot in our roots as the focus is often on crushing guitar riffs and slamming rhythms, but we inserted a healthy dose of symphonic elements, leads, and melodies, and pushed ourselves into new technical boundaries. On top of this, our geographic locations forced us to use a different workflow than we’re used to, with each member recording from home and applying their own skills during their own time. There was lots of coordination over Facebook video calls and Messenger.
Where do you tend to pull inspiration from when writing?
We tend to use the combined practical knowledge of our respective craft to project a raw spectrum of emotions into the music, filling in the gaps as a collective entity to create something that can be shared between ourselves and our community.
Do you have any upcoming shows you’d like to tell us about?
Not at this time, we just wrapped up a string of shows! More to come!
What’s your goal for 2023?
I think with the tour and our album finally being released our main goals for 2023 have been realized. But we’re really hoping to see a lot of faces at our shows and meet some awesome people. The main goal really is to make some awesome music, have fun, and show everyone that we’re back and stronger than ever. Ideally, we’ll be working on a follow-up album by the end of the year too.