Boson
From:
Minneapolis,
MN,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
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Boson Details Debut Release, Streams New Single
Minneapolis bred sludge-metal band Boson will release the debut full-length album "Domain of Ember" on November 3rd via Anxious & Angry Records. Today, the band has partnered with DecibelMagazine.com to premiere the album’s first new track, “Mass of the Phoenix,” which you can check out at this location, or simply follow the article down to its climax and explode to the new song in the player there.
Guitarist/Vocalist, Jim Adolphson talks about the new song: "This song was one of the last tracks that we worked on before entering into the studio and by far had some of the most intense energy when writing it. It took a few months to come to what became the final draft of “Mass of the Phoenix” because we kept running into roadblocks in matching the vibe of the main riff. Once the final version came to be, it seemed like the lyrical content just kind of presented itself in a weird way to me. I have always been pulled in by occultism, especially occult rituals that required death and mutilation.
"I was reading 'The Book of Lies' at the time and came across this ritual that involved the participant eating what was called 'The Cake of Light.' The cake included bodily fluids and required the participant to cut their chest and use their own blood as one of the ingredients. From a lyrical standpoint, I used the ritual as sort of a meditation of releasing negative emotions in the darkest and most vile way possible. This particular ritual seemed to be the most appropriate vessel. More...