Name: New Heaven
Brand: Inter Arma

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RR75602

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2024-04-26

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The Orchard

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Inter Arma

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Metal

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Relapse

Inter Arma is a US sludge/black/death metal band hailing from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 2006, the band has made a name for themselves with their unique blend of heavy and aggressive music.
The line-up consists of Andrew LaCour on bass, T.J. Childers on drums, Trey Dalton and Steven Russell on guitars, and Mike Paparo providing powerful vocals. Together, they create a sound that is both intense and captivating.
With influences ranging from Lord Mantis to Primitive Man, Inter Arma has carved out their own space in the metal scene. Their music resonates with fans who appreciate the raw energy and dark atmosphere that defines the genre. If you're a fan of heavy music that pushes boundaries, *Inter Arma* is definitely an artist worth checking out.

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The label has a rich history with previous sublabels such as Release Entertainment and Desolation House that focused on ambient/dark ambient genres. They also have exciting series like Cult Classic and Relapse Singles Series that showcase exceptional talent from our roster.

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New Heaven, INTER ARMA’s latest album, is a compelling testament to perseverance, top to bottom. Its thicket of ever-dense layers of doom, death, and black metal occasionally let bits of light slip in, fleeting reminders to keep going amid the tumult. New Heaven marks a sharp turn for the band, showcasing some of the most extreme and angular songwriting INTER ARMA has ever laid bare. Known for their cinematic take on sludgy, extremely cavernous, and borderline psychedelic Metal, the Richmond band broadens their dynamics by seesawing between piledriving momentum and swirling oblivion. New Heaven crushers and conquers, and illustrates what INTER ARMA can truly be. Take the title track, with its hair-raising lead riff stemming from drummer/songwriter TJ Childers’ challenge to himself to write a nonsensically dissonant part that he ended up loving. The song spirals upward into a punishing Death-Metal march, Meanwhile, vocalist Mike Paparo’s stentorian bellows the bludgeon, above an impossibly complicated web of riffs and rhythms. From the get go, New Heaven and the opening title track eschews any restraint - INTER ARMA is completely unchained. Paparo’s keen and empathetic lyrics about innocent victims of war, addiction, and social apathy affirm that feeling, as a survivor grimaces at the carnage behind him and presses ahead best he can. “You stared into the brutish jaws of strife’s heartless device,” he growls into a chthonic blitz during “The Children the Bombs Overlooked,” a late-album powerhouse. “And you turned your back to hell.” That forward march out of madness is New Heaven in an armor-plated nutshell. Though this is indeed another INTER ARMA triumph, it is not a triumphant album, meant to offer some glib or naïve assurance that everything will be fine. What evidence is there for that, really, either on a record where friends are forced into submission, addiction, suicide, or retreat to a world where suffering remains the lingua franca? No, INTER ARMA and New Heaven are too realistic and experienced for that. This is, instead, a record about enduring brambles and curses and lasting long enough to make something profound, honest, and even affirming about it all every now and again—exactly as INTER ARMA has on New Heaven. FFO: Amenra, Neurosis, Full of Hell, Cult of Luna, Yob, Primitive Man, Thou, Ulcerate, Mastodon, The Body, Panopticon

New Heaven

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Discover New Heaven by Inter Arma on Relapse. A compelling testament to perseverance in doom, death, and black metal. Vinyl records available.