Garry Brents is one of the busiest people in heavy music, writing, recording and issuing a few dozen releases since the Covid pandemic began (and plenty more before that). Brents’ latest ripper comes from Sallow Moth, a progressive death metal duo from Dallas. Their new album, Hydrophilous Brood, is out later this week and it’s one that every progressive, technical and brutal death metal fan needs in their life.
Coming just a year after Sallow Moth’s last album, Mossbane Lantern, the new album plays with a lot of the same musical and sci-fi ideas but with a more brutality-forward mentality. On Mossbane Lantern, Brents performed every instrument and was very open about his influences from bands like Ackercoke and maudlin of the Well. With Hydrophilous Brood, Sallow Moth zero in on the project’s more technical and heavy influences, citing bands like Wormed, Deeds of Flesh and Cephalic Carnage.
The album’s most notable change is the addition of drummer Allen Gingerich, who matches Brents’ creative approach to guitar with his own performance. From the time the drums hit on opener “Nebulous Appendages of Vacillant Seafoam,” Gingerich elevates Sallow Mouth to a higher level.
Other album highlights come in the form of the spacy “Arcane Benthic Umbilicus,” the title track, which combines dizzying guitar leads and raging drums, and album closer “Serene Aqueous Leech,” which shows off Sallow Moth’s love for jazz-inspired death metal.
“Hydrophilous Brood is a thematic sequel to Mossbane Lantern, but sonically extends the project’s signature of evolution (or mutation) into more brutal territory while not staying in a box,” Brents says about the album. “We are super proud of the end result and hope that it will resonate with the fans for a long time to come.”
Sallow Moth will release Hydrophilous Brood on Friday via Willowtip Records but they are streaming the album early tonight at 8:30pm EST via a Bandcamp listening party.
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