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After releasing three albums in three years and then spending the next four in the wilderness, Tomb Mold has been reborn on fourth album The Enduring Spirit, a thoroughly unabashed step into vast new territories. Yet for all it s frenetic daring and audacious exploration, it is never anything other than unmistakably Tomb Mold.

While the expanding Tomb Mold architecture could be heard on last year s self-released Aperture Of Body tape, it comes into clear focus throughout The Enduring Spirit. Certainly Derrick Vella s time creating within and expanding the doom genre in Dream Unending has seeped into the flesh of Tomb Mold, not to mention Payson Power and Max Klebanoff s explorations in their own Daydream Plus project. With album opener The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura) the band s angular dimension shifting riffing appears right out of the gate as the track travels through varying degrees of progressive death metal and some of the band s most extreme material yet. Will Of Whispers enters with a jazz-like fantasy sequence before careening into a blinding white light barrage, tasteful guitar leads and back to a dreamy serpentine pattern, encompassing whole universes in it s nearly seven minute run-time. The back half of the record continues the voyage into what s possible with the outward expansion of death metal norms, reaching the zenith of eleven plus minute album closer The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity, an otherworldly journey into a vortex where all things converge in space and time and generating the tree of life via luminous celestial composition. With four years away, a band with boundless creative energy, as Tomb Mold are, were certain to expand the scope of their vision, and on The Enduring Spirit they ve shaped a record with a cinematic environment that offers unlimited avenues of exploration, both for themselves and the listener.