Metal Shock Finland (World Assault )

Upon signing with Season of Mist in 2022, after crawling through the Italian underground, Miscreance were likened to Death, Sadus, Voivod and other immortal beings who have shaped the alternate timeline that is the history of extreme metal. The band’s thrashing riffs and blistering tempo shifts recall death metal’s golden age, but their upcoming second album, Reminiscence, is quickly proving itself to be far from just another blast from the past.

“What we have here is innovation, classicism, power and talent unmatched”, MetalBites writes in a 9/10 review, “but above all else, Miscreance is a group of musicians who understand the importance of those good ole days and the impact that they are still and should always be having on today’s Scene”

“[…] a four-piece set to stun the world through their progressive thrash/death blend of technicality that continually pushes the parameters of the genre as well as the individuals composing/playing this music”, Dead Rhetoric writes in another 9/10 review.

“On Reminiscence, 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, who are premiering the full album stream today.  

Reminiscence comes out this Friday, August 28 on Season of Mist, but you can hear all nine mind-altering songs today by listening to the full album stream on Decibel Magazine’s website, HERE.

“After meandering through the sands of time, we are finally unearthing our new album Reminiscence”, Miscreance says. “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”, the band continues. “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!”

Pre-order & Pre-save: https://orcd.co/miscreancereminiscence

Reminiscence isn’t one band’s attempt to recall death metal’s glory days. Opener “Trait d’Union’ begins with funky, bouncing, tribal percussion that one associates with a time long before the dawn of Charvel guitars. “We still play old-school tech-thrash” Miscreance guitarist Andrea Granauro assures. But through a collective hallucination, on their new album, the band venture into dark territory that the genre has yet to travel. Lead single “Scalp Ceremony” shreds at a blood-thirsty pace before banging heads with a flurry of bongos.

“We are all very happy with how our first album turned out, but we wanted to go bigger by tying Reminiscence to a specific concept”, guitarist Tommaso Cappelletti explains. “Adding the tribal instruments to certain songs deepens the connection to the overall story that the album is telling”.

“What we’ve created is a ‘lost album’”, bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol continues. “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”.

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 didgeridoo, berimbau, telepathic surgeries, strange tongues and a burning celestial corpse. Climbing “The Moaning Hill” is not for the faint of heart, but the intricate twists along its perverse path lead to truly sacred pleasures.        

“You’ve never known the face of death / But now it becomes yours”, drummer Andrea Feltrin growls amidst the many peaks hidden within “Oracle’s Rift”. As the band tear through a torturous passage with ruthless precision, the last thing you see – or hear – is death metal’s future mutating right before our eyes.    

With Reminiscence, Miscreance unlock a mind-altering experience of old-school technical death metal.  

Tracklist

1. Trait d’Union (4:31)
2. Vision (3:59)
3. Scalp Ceremony (3:14) [WATCH]
4. Synaptic Cortex Dissection (5:02)
5. Oracle’s Rift (5:06) [LISTEN]
6. The Moaning Hill (2:45) [LISTEN]
7. Symbiosis (4:12)
8. Zenith of a Dying Sun (4:19)
9. Mirage (4:27)

As is the custom in Italy, even the most obscene artists are well-versed in the classics.  

Upon signing with Season of Mist in 2022, Northern Italia’s Miscreance were likened to Death, Sadus and other undying greats from the alternate timeline that is the history of extreme metal. Fashioned in high-top sneakers and sleeveless band shirts, bassist Jean-Claude Rossignol, guitarists Andrea Granauro and Tommaso Cappelletti, and drummer/vocalist Andrea Feltrin proudly reflect the genre’s old-school spirit. But while its tech-thrash riffs and proggy tempo shifts will remind battle-tested heshers of the golden years, their second album isn’t just another blast from the past.  

“Through a collective hallucination, a voyage through time led us to discover a moment in human history that was lost”, the band says about the far-out path they took to their new album. “Reminiscence is a testimony of what we have seen, heard, perceived and imagined, told through our own perspective on old-school, thrashy, technical death metal”.  

In 2018, Miscreance quickly emerged onto the metal scene as a welcome mutation. While their initial incubation period under prior name Atomic Massacre fit the mold of Slayer, Kreator and Sodom, the band turned their morbid fascination with classic horror films and late ‘80s to early ‘90s tech-thrash into a debut that, while faithful to both Atheist and Dark Angel, gave the OSDM revival a much-needed jump scare. Convergence not only drew the favor of France’s premiere metal label but also attention from Decibel, New Noise and other international press.  

“We’re left wondering how band members who look so young also seem so well-steeped in so many different genre influences, and how technically masterful and wildly inventive they are in their songwriting”, No Clean Singing wrote upon the album’s release in 2022. “They seem inherently resistant to taking the easy way forward, and equally resistant to just mimicking their most prominent thrash metal forebearers”.  

Reminiscence isn’t an attempt to recall metal’s glory days. Opener “Trait d’Union’ doesn’t begin with blast beats but funky, bouncing, tribal percussion one associates with a time long before the dawn of Charvel guitars. “We still play old-school tech-thrash”, assures Granauro. With its eerie handcam footage, the music video for the album’s lead single will give tape collectors warm and fuzzy memories. However, while the band shred at a blood-thirsty pace, “Scalp Ceremony” bangs the long-haired heads of their captive audience with a flurry of bongos.

“We are all very happy with how our first album turned out, but we wanted to go bigger by tying Reminiscence to a specific concept”, Cappelletti explains. “Adding the tribal instruments to certain songs deepens the connection to the overall story that the album is telling”.      

While recorded in Italy, Miscreance discovered the concept for Reminiscence by sifting through the sands of time. Along with splintering riffs and trippy tempo shifts, the band uncovered a hidden world where jungle-dwelling hunters and digeridoo coexist with strange tongues, telepathic surgeries and a burning celestial corpse. As imagined by Iranian artist Mona Shiraz, the album’s cover art is a modern interpretation of the kind of painting that was all the rage during the Stone Age. “What we’ve created is a ‘lost album’”, Rossignol says. “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.

“You’ve never known the face of death / But now it becomes yours”, Feltrin growls amidst the many peaks hidden within “Oracle’s Rift”. As the band tear through a torturous passage with ruthless precision, the last thing you see – or hear – is death metal’s future mutating right before our eyes.

With Reminiscence, Miscreance unlock a mind-altering experience of old-school technical death metal.

Lineup
Andrea Feltrin – Drums and Vocals
Jean-Claude Rossignol – Bass
Tommaso Cappelletti – Guitars
Andrea Granauro – Guitars

Guest musicians
Leo Di Angilla – Percussion, Digeridoo, Flute, Berimbau

Recording and Production Credits
Recording Studio – Bridge Produzioni Audio in Susegana, Italy
Mixing and Mastering Studio – Majestic Studio in Silea, Italy
Producer – Marino De Angeli
Mixing, Mastering and Sound Engineer – Marino De Angeli

Cover art
Mona Shiraz

Follow Miscreance
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/miscreance/1502815524
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2v4mzDLx1JSnxzq8CsYDzD
Bandcamp: https://miscreance.bandcamp.com/music
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC09Rq5Qo2p914wCf7PVFjqQ
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Miscreance/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miscreance_official