Metal Anarchy

God Complex have announced a new EP titled “He Watches In Silence.” The effort will be released on February 21 and it can be pre-ordered HERE.

“He Watches In Silence” Track Listing:

01. “Salt And Ash”
02. “Depraved Idol”
03. “Ba’al’s Trick”
04. “The Judge”
05. “Flooded Lungs”

The band commented:

“We’re incredibly proud of this EP and we’re thrilled for people to finally hear it. As a comeback effort, we felt it was important to do things differently, so we deliberately avoided lengthy pre-production and allowed small variations in the recordings to embrace the mess and chaos that sit at the heart of our sound. We wanted to create something more refined and savage than anything we’ve previously attempted.

The metaphor most people use to describe rebirth is the phoenix or a change of seasons but a more accurate image for this EP is a cornered animal. Something a bit feral with its drive to sustain itself untethered from restraint.”

A video for the first single, “Depraved Idol,“ can be found below. The group added the following about that:

“The title of the first single (‘Salt and Ash‘) evokes what is left behind when everything has been destroyed — but we were also interested in exploring rebirth imagery in the idol of The Green Man. He’s almost never depicted as a god demanding sacrifice, so our imagining is one where the renewal he symbolizes can only be attained through suffering and loss — a ‘Depraved Idol‘.”