Lord Mantis Universal Death Church

Lord Mantis releasing first album in five years (stream "Damocles Falls")

Lord Mantis haven’t released an album since 2014’s Death Mask, after which vocalist Charlie Fell left the band and joined Cobalt, who released the great Slow Forever with him fronting the band. Charlie ended up rejoining Lord Mantis last year, and now they’re back with their first album in five years, Universal Death Church, due November 22 via Profound Lore. Charlie and longtime guitarist/vocalist Andrew Markuszewski are once again joined by Ken Sorceron, who also played guitar on Death Mask (and leads Abigail Williams, who also just announced a new album this week), plus new drummer Bryce Butler. (Original Lord Mantis drummer Bill Bumgardner passed away in 2016, and his passing is partially what brought the band back together to release this new album in his honor.) The album also features appearances by honorary vocalist/member Dylan O’Toole of Indian (who Bill Bumgardner also drummed for), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), and Dallas Thomas (Pelican). It was produced, recorded, and mixed by Sanford Parker.

The first song released from the album is the absolutely punishing “Damocles Falls,” which is enough to make this album seem very promising. Listen and check out the tracklist below.

Tracklist
1. Santa Muerte
2. God’s Animal
3. Qliphotic Alpha
4. Consciousness.exe
5. Low Entropy Narcosis
6. Damocles Falls
7. Fleshworld
8. Hole