Necroverse by HERAKLEION

Thousands of metal albums will be released, worldwide, in 2024.
Herakleion’s Necroverse sounds like none of them.

With an obsessive dedication to a bygone era, New Orleans’ death-thrash trio, Herakleion, set out to make their second record the hard way. “We didn’t use any digital or computer assistance at all”, cites drummer, Speed Wilson. “It was important that we did it the way bands used to do it; live and without a click. The record needed to sound like a band, not a collection of perfectly placed blocks”.

To accomplish this, they enlisted producer Pete deBoer (Blood Incantation, Devil Master, Spectral Voice) to oversee an entirely analog production. For six days in October of 2023, deBoer tracked the band live at Sonic Ranch Studios in Tornillo, TX, like it was 1989. “The goal was to make a recording that sounds closer to what’s in our record collections, than to what records sound like now.”

The result is a record that achieves what Herakleion intended. Necroverse is five tracks of living, seething death-thrash that become the listener’s vessel from the world of mortality into the realm of the dead. It is wholly out-of-step with the current trends in metal, and with the way most metal has been recorded for decades.

Available on 180-gram LP, limited edition cassette, and compact disc.

HERAKLEION. Ripping Death- Thrash from New Orleans, LA.

Formed in 2021, Herakleion is:

Apollo: Guitars & Vocals
Christian: Bass
Speed: Drums

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