Blackend Sludge Metal band Blood Brain Barrier have dropped a new single, Seek Nothing Destroy Everything, ahead of their forthcoming EP, Windows Drenched In Red, due out July 29th.
You can stream the video via Apple Music and Amazon Music as well as YouTube:
And you can pre-order Windows Drenched In Red from here.
Tracklist:
- 1. Testing The Waters
- 2. Windows Drenched In Red
- 3. Seek Nothing Destroy Everything
- 4. Desire To Be Thoughtless
“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.
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.
Drawing inspiration from genre-defying pioneers like Wolves in the Throne Room, Opeth, Thou, Sub Rosa and Krallice, the band fuses the atmospheric expanse of black metal with the oppressive density of sludge, creating music that is as meditative as it is punishing. 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.
Blood Brain Barrier isn’t just a band – it’s a descent, a meditation, a confrontation with the void. In their music, catharsis is both a weapon and a wound.”
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