Temple Of Void – The Crawl [Custom Blue Marble]

Critically acclaimed Death Metal force TEMPLE OF VOID return with their new album, The Crawl. The caveman brawn of previous albums, namely Summoning the Slayer (2022), remains, but theres a wider dynamic on the groups fifth full-length album at play. Now a quartetfeaturing guitarist Alex Awn, drummer Jason Pearce, vocalist/guitarist Mike Erdody, and bassist Justin Malekthe Michiganders arent shying away from their non-metal influences, seeking greater integration of grunge and post-punk with their brutish signature. Singles The Crawl and Soulburn demonstrate the proficiency of TEMPLE OF VOID’s death-cloaked, spearheaded attack. From the high intensity of opener Poison Icon to the granite wall of The Twin Stranger, The Crawl isnt just TEMPLE OF VOID evolved, its a harbinger of death metal to come. The biggest shift for me on this record was not feeling like we had to fly the death-doom banner as part of our identity, says Alex Awn. Death-doom, as a gen