Canadian Black Metal/Sludge band Blood Brain Barrier have released a new single/video Testing The Waters, ahead of their debut EP Windows Drenched In Red, due out July 29th.
You can watch the vizualizer video for Testing The Waters here:
And stream the single via Bandcamp, Spotify, and Apple Music.
“Emerging from the liminal spaces between doom and transcendence, Blood Brain Barrier is a blackened doom sludge metal project that blends crushing sonic weight with cerebral exploration. The two-piece outfit is composed of Isabelle Tazbir on vocals and Mrudul Kamble, who commands guitar, drums, and bass with equal intensity. Together, they craft sprawling, dissonant compositions that channel raw emotion through a lens of conceptual abstraction.
Their sound is ritualistic, a slow-burning immolation built on textured riffs, layered rhythms, and visceral vocal incantations.Lyrically and thematically, Blood Brain Barrier navigates the fractured borderlands between the physical and the metaphysical – where inner turmoil mirrors societal collapse, and spiritual decay reflects in ecological ruin. The band delves into abstract concepts – identity dissolution, entropy, liminality, and psychic fragmentation – yet these themes often echo real-world anxieties and existential dread.
Windows Drenched In Red is a conceptual plunge into the psyche of a purposeless entity adrift between dimensions. Blending elements of black metal, ambient despair, and fractured melodies, the album chronicles the entity’s chaotic intrusion into the human realm. As it stirs unrest and distorts perception, it becomes a mirror to humanity’s own violent footprint across unseen, lesser realms.
Each track of Windows Drenched In Red is a window through which listeners glimpse the cycles of suffering we inflict and inherit. Yet, as the entity ascends beyond mortal comprehension, it too becomes trapped in the same existential void: a being without aim, reflecting the same chaos it once revealed. This is not just music – it’s a confrontation with the abstract, the unseen, and the inevitable loss of meaning in the search for higher ground. “
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