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Atavist

by Cowardice

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    Pre-order of Atavist. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases June 7, 2024

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    "Atavist" DLP vinyl on gold/ultra clear smoke marble color way. This version is only available directly from the band.

    Comes with two 12" vinyl, inner insert lyric sheet and custom art by Robin Harris (Mystic Barbarism).

    Recorded by Scot Moriarty at Backroom Studios
    Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio
    Mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios

    Front and back covers created by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration
    Layout and design by Brendan Coughlin

    Includes digital pre-order of Atavist. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    "Atavist" double album on metallic gold 2-sided cassette. Limited to 100 copies.

    Inner multi-panel J-card with custom artwork by Robin Harris (Mystic Barbarism)

    Recorded by Scot Moriarty at Backroom Studios
    Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio
    Mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios

    Front and back covers created by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration
    Layout and design by Brendan Coughlin

    Includes digital pre-order of Atavist. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases June 7, 2024
    item ships out on or around June 30, 2024

      $10 USD or more 

     

  • Sweater/Hoodie + Digital Album

    "Atavist" double-album hoodie featuring artwork by Mystic Barbarism.

    Printed on GIldan DryBlend 50/50 "black" hoodies with light gray ink by Convex Printing

    This is a pre-order and will ship in late June.

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    digital album releases June 7, 2024
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  • T-Shirt/Shirt + Digital Album

    Suzerain, part I of the double-album "Atavist"

    Printed on Comfort Colors "sandstone" shirts with crimson/black ink by Convex Printing

    This is a pre-order and will ship late June.

    Includes digital pre-order of Atavist. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases June 7, 2024
    item ships out within 98 days

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    Sentinel, part II of the double-album "Atavist"

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    digital album releases June 7, 2024
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      $30 USD or more 

     

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    "A rush and a push... and the land that we stand on is ours"

    Printed on Comfort Colors "blue jean" shirts with silver ink by Convex Printing

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    Includes digital pre-order of Atavist. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases June 7, 2024
    item ships out on or around June 15, 2024

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1.
To the Hilt of Humanity 10:50
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The tumbril rocks ‘long to the scaffold And you still want To negotiate What will it take To demonstrate The poverty Of capitulation We’re all so drunk with the fallacy We’re all so fucking content To equivocate And throw up our hands So I refuse To cast my lot with you Traitorous Collaborator We only ever just contemplate Without producing results Believing we aren’t replaceable But never willing to fight Go on Bury Your head In hypotheticals We will Meet again With your Bodkin pressed against my throat The path that you’ve elected To travel always lies Between naive ambition And blood and betrayal Your empty musings And sophistry are like A conversation With the firing squad
2.
Cloisters 05:45
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Why Must we tolerate The asphyxiation The distance The restraints They bind us with And the cells we abide We pass by Without a word As we circumambulate It’s simple and quiet To shelter inside But it comes with a price We may humble our minds And conquer desire But we are alive no less They coldly spy With despotic eyes And scan for impieties When they moralize We internalize Their odious rhetoric And all the while These zealots and tyrants Sap their flocks of vitality Their empty lives Cheap and vulgarized By their condescension As we are deprived They privatize and deflect those who question Look deep inside you remember the lies you only suppress the memory It’s simple and quiet To shelter inside But it comes with a price We may humble our minds And conquer desire But we are alive no less They coldly spy With despotic eyes And scan for impieties When they moralize We internalize Their odious rhetoric And all the while These zealots and tyrants Sap their flocks of vitality Their empty lives Cheap and vulgarized By their condescension these are our lives these are our lives these are our lives in the cloisters
3.
Panicle of Lowliness (Hawley Bog Hymn)
4.
Unforgeable Key
5.
Eastern Woodland Reverie
6.
Moss Stone
7.
Clairvoyance Anxiety
8.
The Diminutive Principle
9.
Aphelion
10.
Annulment
11.
Hall of Mages

about

Since their inception, Cowardice have always leaned into teasing their individual boundary of metal. Slow and dirging, yet righteous and vigilant in its delivery. With every release, the evolution of Cowardice has never understated its ability to grow and branch into sensibilities that do not conform to the stalwart pillars of doom metal.

"Atavist" sees the band at their most daring of limits. Capitalizing on the dichotomy of melancholia and agonizing, churning, sludgy guitar work from the "Fealty" EP, "Atavist" pushes the basis further. A double-album in its entirety, "Atavist" challenges the listener to a one-and-a-half hour listen in its totality. In "Atavist's" first half, titled 'Suzerain,' Cowardice seeks a triumphant and glistening sonic bout of down-tuned metal. Through passages of gleaming slide guitar leads and hopeful clean vocalization dotted therein, 'Suzerain' slowly gives way to the darker latter half of the journey that is "Atavist." Transitioning out of 'Suzerain,' enters the second album comprised within "Atavist;" 'Sentinel." In its reigns of ultra-low tuned guitars, 'Sentinel' breaks the mold of 'Suzerain' and submerges the listener into the brutalizing woes of glacially slow paces of doom metal, intermingled with funereal harmonies meant only to deliver the listener deeper into the mire that is "Atavist." In cataclysmic fashion, 'Sentinel' finalizes the "Atavist" experience with its 17-minute closer, "Hall of Mages," which serves only to mangle those who take it on into despondency.

A challenge in itself, "Atavist" demands the willpower of its listener. It demands a sharpened attentiveness of those who refuse to tire. This record is for those who dare to challenge their understanding of hopefulness. To understand deceit, and blood, and betrayal, is to understand the statement "Atavist" strives to make. This is for the outcasts who reside on the fringes of society. For the frayed who have come to realize the bitter truth of it all; that these are our lives.

These are our lives.

credits

releases June 7, 2024

Music written and performed by:
Julian Cardazone
Nick Zwiren
Mark Guiliano
Chris Ward
Stephen Edwards

Recorded by Scot Moriarty at Backroom Studios
Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios

Front and back covers created by Adam Burke at Nightjar Illustration

"Atavist" is released in collaboration with Burning World Records (EU) and Riff Merchant Records (US)

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Knaves wielding the power of guile. The harlequins of sonic despair.

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