Tomb Mold is back. The 4th album ‘The Enduring Spirit’ will be released on all streaming platforms this Friday 9/15 - no waiting. That same day we will start pre-orders for all physical formats at 11 a.m. EST with an actual release date of October 13th. More information about those will be posted in the coming days.
The band has previously announced two shows this weekend in Toronto and Montreal and yes, those are release shows to commemorate the new album.
9/15 - Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON w/ Undeath, Outer Heaven
9/16 - Foufounes Électriques – Montréal, QC w/ Outer Heaven, Serpent Corpse
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 its frenetic daring and audacious exploration, ‘The Enduring Spirit’ is never anything other than unmistakably Tomb Mold.
With 4 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.
1. The Perfect Memory (Phantasm of Aura)
2. Angelic Fabrications
3. Will Of Whispers
4. Fate’s Tangled Thread
5. Flesh As Armour
6. Servants Of Possibility
7. The Enduring Spirit Of Calamity
Recorded at @boxcarsound by Sean Pearson
Mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (@dehuman1zer)
Cover artwork by Jesse Jacobi (@pit_of_bones)
Additional artwork by Karmazid (@karmazid)
Layout and Design by Chimère Noire (@chimerenoire)
Band photography by Colin Medley (@colin.medley)

Man, I'm starting to feel bad for all the metal producers who aren't Arthur Rizk these days. It seems like he's the only person any bands of note care about. Is he really that much better than everyone else?

Man, I'm starting to feel bad for all the metal producers who aren't Arthur Rizk these days. It seems like he's the only person any bands of note care about. Is he really that much better than everyone else?

He's worked on innumerable awesome albums, but sometimes I find his choices a bit spotty. I don't love the way he mixes vocals for newer trad bands, that characteristic echoey, almost autotune-sounding effect he does for bands like Sumerlands, Eternal Champion, Blood Star, etc. You just don't get nearly as much grit as I think these bands should have. And the vocals on the new Smoulder album are so buried and muddy that it took me ages to get past it and still try to enjoy the record.

He's worked on innumerable awesome albums, but sometimes I find his choices a bit spotty. I don't love the way he mixes vocals for newer trad bands, that characteristic echoey, almost autotune-sounding effect he does for bands like Sumerlands, Eternal Champion, Blood Star, etc. You just don't get nearly as much grit as I think these bands should have. And the vocals on the new Smoulder album are so buried and muddy that it took me ages to get past it and still try to enjoy the record. It almost makes me think I'm taking crazy pills since I never hear anyone else mention this. It almost ruined the record for me when it came out, and I still vastly prefer the debut because of this.

Still, as I've said, he's worked on tons of albums I love (and I still love the above bands/albums I mentioned), and the number as well as the range of bands he works with is pretty crazy.

I just hope there's a bandcamp release as well this Friday and that it's not ONLY on streaming platforms.

He's worked on innumerable awesome albums, but sometimes I find his choices a bit spotty. I don't love the way he mixes vocals for newer trad bands, that characteristic echoey, almost autotune-sounding effect he does for bands like Sumerlands, Eternal Champion, Blood Star, etc. You just don't get nearly as much grit as I think these bands should have. And the vocals on the new Smoulder album are so buried and muddy that it took me ages to get past it and still try to enjoy the record. It almost makes me think I'm taking crazy pills since I never hear anyone else mention this. It almost ruined the record for me when it came out, and I still vastly prefer the debut because of this.

Still, as I've said, he's worked on tons of albums I love (and I still love the above bands/albums I mentioned), and the number as well as the range of bands he works with is pretty crazy.

Not sure I'm interested in a more technical/progressive Tomb Mold. Spinning PC now and its a crusher. I prefer more straight forward death metal like this or Necrot than something with more flash.

For me is no. Tomb Mold is one of the most obscure band ever. I expected the continuation of Aperture Of Body. R.I.P.

I'd say this album does sound like a continuation of Aperture of Body, at least to my ears. I'm kind of surprised neither of the metal tracks on that release ended up on The Enduring Spirit, they're both great songs and would fit in quite well.

Great album. I think the transition to a more progressive death metal style is very refreshing and definitely puts this new one over Planetary Clairvoyance in terms of quality. In fact, it might edge out Manor... by a hair in my Tomb Mold ranking (though the first few songs of that album are the high point of their discography, IMO). The last track is just so good, between that and Will of Whispers you can tell that Dream Unending has influenced Derrick's writing for Tomb Mold.



I'd say this album does sound like a continuation of Aperture of Body, at least to my ears. I'm kind of surprised neither of the metal tracks on that release ended up on The Enduring Spirit, they're both great songs and would fit in quite well.