Indian prog metal/mathcore powerhouse Maneating Orchid will release their third full-length album, Cold Logic, on June 5th, 2026. The album will be available internationally via Subcontinental Records.
Maneating Orchid’s third full-length album, Cold Logic, continues the evolution of the band’s manic soundscape. Abrupt left turns, uneven song forms, and caustic harmonic passages shape a suffocating 34-minute experience. Jagged, angular riffs collide with violently dynamic blast beats, warped and syncopated low-end patterns, and hellish screams, forming a shifting wall of sound that feels perpetually on the brink of collapse.
With the addition of new drummer Vishnu Reddy, the band’s already volatile sound is pushed even further, amplifying its feral intensity just when it appears to have reached its limits. The result is a relentless collision of dissonant death metal, aggressive punk urgency, and math-leaning progressive passages, assembled in deliberately uneven proportions.
Lyrically and thematically, Cold Logic grapples with cosmic dread, deep space isolation, and the psychological horror of confronting a reality stripped of narrative and intention. Across the album, perception fractures, identity dissolves, and the self mutates beyond recognition. Post-human transformation and body horror emerge not as spectacle, but as symptoms of existential decay. Time, meaning, and consciousness begin to fold under an indifferent universe’s cold scrutiny. This marks a decisive shift away from the more socio-political themes of the band’s previous releases.
Track list:
01 Dimension Exile
02 Cosmic Shroud
03 Ionized Green
04 Void Engine
05 Hollow World
06 Arcological Horror
07 Binary Contagion
08 Dreaming
09 Neon Static
10 Malformed Horizon
11 Astral Codex
Formed in 2011, Maneating Orchid has spent over a decade carving out a distinct space in extreme music. Previously known as “Orchid,” the band has forged a sound that twists progressive metal and mathcore into something volatile and unhinged. With dense, dissonant riffing, abrasive vocals, and song structures that collapse and mutate in real time, they have consistently pushed the boundaries of heavy music while developing a voice that is unmistakably their own.
Their 2016 self-titled EP introduced them as true outliers, earning cult status and critical praise. The debut full-length, Miasma (2019), sharpened that chaotic edge further, cementing their reputation for crafting unpredictable music that defies easy categorisation. By the time Hive Mind (2022) arrived, Maneating Orchid had fully evolved into one of contemporary extreme metal’s most singular and uncompromising voices, with no intention of sounding comfortable or familiar.
Now, with their third album on the horizon, the band is diving even deeper into sonically mercurial territory.
For fans of: Voivod, Watchtower, Dysrhythmia, Gorguts, Spastik Ink, Converge, Cardiacs, Blotted Science, Botch, Discordance Axis, Mico, Behold… The Arctopus
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