“The Devoratis full stream is here!” exclaims Dutch death dealers APOPHYS frontman Kevin Quilligan. “Together with BrutalFullAlbums we bring you the official full stream of our new album. This album is the start to a whole new chapter of the band and we are very happy we can share it with you. The response to our new music has been overwhelming, thank you all for taking this journey with us!”
Stream Devoratis in full here:
The sci-fi epic, “the story of an unlikely union of two forces against an intergalactic race”, is set for release January 22nd via Ultimate Massacre Productions, and is based on a science fiction story written by Quilligan. “We wanted to do a concept album but we couldn’t find a fitting concept, so we decided to write it ourselves. Together with all the members we fashioned our own tale to tell which has given a whole new meaning to our music.”
APOPHYS have been making waves since their surfacing in 2012, slowly carving their path in the modern death metal scene. Featuring members from God Dethroned and Toxocara this is a band with experience and a clear vision and approach to their writing, song structure above technicality. Their debut album was testament to that and seen the band tour internationally with acts such as Vader, Hate Eternal, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation and many others as well as several festival appearances including Eindhoven Metal Meeting and Deathfeast Open Air among others.
“‘What We Will Be’ is a song unlike any other on our new album Devoratis,” claims vocalist Kevin Quilligan of Dutch death dealers APOPHYS. “The way the song grows as it progresses and the fact that it’s not based on whirlwind blastbeats and riffs gives it something special. It is very welcome with the way we are growing as ourselves as well. It’s the start of new creativity in Apophys and one of my personal favourites on the album.”
Taken from their forthcoming sci-fi epic “Devoratis”, set for release January 22nd via Ultimate Massacre Productions, ‘What We Will Be’ is undoubtedly a departure from most of the album, more ethereal, but yet just as majestic and as crushingly heavy in its own right.
Listen To ‘What Will Be’ Here:
The album is based on a science fiction story written by Quilligan. “We wanted to do a concept album but we couldn’t find a fitting concept,” Quilligan shares. “So we decided to write it ourselves. Together with all the members we fashioned our own tale to tell which has given a whole new meaning to our music.”
Listen To The First Single ‘Retaliate’ Here!
Watch The Guitar Playthrough Of ‘Deadlock’ Here:
APOPHYS have been making waves since their surfacing in 2012, slowly carving their path in the modern death metal scene. Featuring members from God Dethroned and Toxocara this is a band with experience and a clear vision and approach to their writing, song structure above technicality. Their debut album was testament to that and seen the band tour internationally with acts such as Vader, Hate Eternal, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation and many others as well as several festival appearances including Eindhoven Metal Meeting and Deathfeast Open Air among others.
Dutch death metal bruisers APOPHYS have teamed up with Metal Shock Finland to premiere, for Finnish territory, their the most brutal single “Deadlock” from their second full length, a sci-fi epic entitled “Devoratis”, set to be released on January 22nd via Ultimate Massacre Productions.
Watch “Deadlock” (Guitar Playthrough) below:
or stream via Soundcloud, here:
Stated Kevin Quilligan: “Deadlock” is one of the most powerful songs on the album. This one definitely packs a punch! As you can see in the video there is some serious riffing going on in this one, they make it look easy but I can tell you it’s not. Story wise, Deadlock is the chapter where our two main characters meet face to face for the first time. Their embrace is like the embrace of a bear trap. Stuck, painful and possibly fatal..”
Dutch death metal bruisers Apophys have been making waves since their surfacing in 2012, slowly carving their path in the modern death metal scene. Featuring members from God Dethroned and Toxocara this is a band with experience and a clear vision and approach to their writing, song structure above technicality. Their debut album was testament to that and seen the band tour internationally with acts such as Vader, Hate Eternal, Dying Fetus, Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation and many others as well as several festival appearances including Eindhoven Metal Meeting and Deathfeast Open Air among others. Building on their growing reputation 2017 has seen Apophys complete their second full length, a sci-fi epic entitled Devoratis, set for release January 22nd via Ultimate Massacre Productions.
The album is based on a science fiction story written by vocalist Kevin Quilligan. “We wanted to do a concept album but we couldn’t find a fitting concept,” Quilligan shares. “So we decided to write it ourselves. Together with all the members we fashioned our own tale to tell which has given a whole new meaning to our music.”
“The story of an unlikely union of two forces against an intergalactic race led by a zealous leader known as Consul…
It all starts with an Operator called Zohm, an engineer with remarkable skills. His task is to demolish planets, entire galaxies of them, to cast out all the elements within. “To make sure the Universe keeps developing as it should.” At least, that’s what his superiors told him. Zohn could care less for the ideology and secret plans of his superiors. It was the technology behind the devices used that he was most interested in. As long as he could keep working on those, he would believe whatever Consul came up with.
One day, a day like any other, everything went wrong. A device failed to go off, a device operated by Zohm. He didn’t know why, there was nothing out of the ordinary. He knew he did everything right. He also knew he would be the one held accountable (which meant a trial before Consul and his peers). Everything went so fast that he could hardly remember it all, but he did remember the verdict:
You must return to right your wrong
To find a way
Cast down into solitude
An exile from this day
Ultimately you will meet your end
When your task is complete
Eternally alone you will stay
And now we will proceed.
Zohm was exiled to the planet he was supposed to destroy. To fix the device and let it carry out its task. This wasn’t just exile; this was a death sentence. While trying to find out what went wrong he comes across a creature called Xiux. Xiux is an ancient being unlike anything else, more a consciousness then an organism. He is the planet and the planet is him. He stopped the device, to some personal damage. Zohm, unaware of the vastness that is Xiux, tried to trap him. The two collide and instead of taking each other down they merge. The resourceful engineer and the living planet form an entity of unparalleled power.
Consul, outraged at the news that Zohm has not fulfilled his sentence, sends the entire fleet back to show everyone that disobedience will not be tolerated. He is met by Zohm and Xiux, eagerly awaiting them, hungry for a challenge.”
The stage has been set
All pieces in place
Their end is our beginning
The album was recorded by Yuma van Eekelen (Exivious) and Kevin Quilligan.
Mix and mastering by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance)
“Devoratis” Tracklist:
1. Children of the Stars
2. The Verdict
3. Xiux – The Parasite
4. Matters Unresolved
5. Deadlock
6. Respite (Interlude)
7. What We Will Be
8. Retaliate
9. Occasus
Also check out the first single from the album, entitled “Retaliate” which was released earlier this month:
Apophys is:
Kevin Quilligan – Vocals
Dave Meester (Melechesh) – Guitar
Sanne van Dijk – Guitar
Michiel van der Plicht (God Dethroned) – Drums
Sid van Kastel – Bass
Dutch Death Dealers APOPHYS will release their new album “Devoratis” on January 22nd 2018 via Ultimate Massacre Productions. The band has unleashed the first single from the album, entitled “Retaliate”, stream it below.
“Devoratis” Tracklist:
1. Children of the Stars
2. The Verdict
3. Xiux – The Parasite
4. Matters Unresolved
5. Deadlock
6. Respite (Interlude)
7. What We Will Be
8. Retaliate
9. Occasus
“Devoratis” (I Devour) is based on a science fiction story written by Kevin Quilligan. We wanted to do a concept album but we couldn’t find a fitting concept. So we decided to write it ourselves. Together with all the members we fashioned our own tale to tell which has given a whole new meaning to our music. An introduction to the story can be found on the next page.
See the album coverart below.
The album was recorded by Yuma van Eekelen (Exivious) and Kevin Quilligan. Mix and mastering by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance).
APOPHYS is:
Kevin Quilligan – Vocals
Dave Meester (Melechesh) – Guitar
Sanne van Dijk – Guitar
Michiel van der Plicht (God Dethroned) – Drums
Sid van Kastel – Bass
After a successful cycle of their acclaimed debut ‘Prime Incursion’, sharing the stage and tourbus with bands like Vader, Hate Eternal, Misery Index and Dying Fetus, the Dutch Death Dealers APOPHYS are ready to release their new album at the beginning of next year: January 22nd 2018 through Ultimate Massacre Productions.
The band has just released a teaser for their upcoming album, watch it below:
The album was recorded by Yuma van Eekelen (Exivious) and Kevin Quilligan. Mix and mastering by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance).
Apophys is:
Kevin Quilligan – Vocals
Dave Meester (Melechesh) – Guitar
Sanne van Dijk – Guitar
Michiel van der Plicht (God Dethroned) – Drums
Sid van Kastel – Bass
Dutch death metal newcomers APOPHYS have launched a new music video for “The Red Planet”. This track is taken from their debut album, “Prime Incursion”, which is available worldwide now, via Metal Blade Records. The video was shot and directed by Sebastiaan Spijker at Beyond the Digit, with makeup and effects by Timmermans at Horror Grime NL. As for the theme behind the visual, the band gives us the details in the following statement:
“The lyrical theme behind ‘The Red Planet’ is the idea of creation and transcending what has been done before. The main character in the song creates something so perfect he values it above anything else. We tried to weave this concept into the plot of our new video; you will witness an entity from a place unknown fashioning his own form of life, only to keep wanting more after the success of the first one. Things get chaotic, risky, and weird. In the end, his experiment results in five human-like organisms that will be the start of a completely new race.“
Apophys is comprised of musicians from God Dethroned, Prostitute Disfigurement, Detonation and Toxocara among others. Thrusting forth nine deviant hymns of grisly, sci-fi-tinged death metal centered on themes extending from transcendental travel, rapid evolutionary progression, and global epidemics, to artificial intelligence in all-out war with their maker, “Prime Incursion” recalls the repugnant charm of death metal legends like Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Immolation and Pyrexia.
A word derived from Apophis, an asteroid that, upon initial observations, indicated a probability that it would hit Earth on April 13th, 2029 causing a collision of immeasurable proportions, APOPHYS was spawned in 2012 and have since been surgically carving their path within the annals of the modern death metal scene. Prime Incursion was mixed by vocalist Kevin Quilligan and mastered by Stefano Morabito at 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour Of Penance etc.), and was released in North America on April 7th, 2015 via Metal Blade Records. CD’s are still available at metalblade.com/apophys where you can also test drive first single, “Requiem For The Absurd.”
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