ATRAE BILIS
APEXAPIEN (ORANGE VINYL + POSTER)

Although the greater bulge of Canadian soil can safely count sublime tech-death as one of few major cultural exports very little of it has historically come from the melting pot of southern British Colombia and, I suppose the provinces west of Ontario for that matter. Thus we shouldn’t necessarily consider any certain ingrained fealty to the upturned nostrils of the much-heralded Québécois lineage in approach of Atræ Bilis, a tightly wound yet broad spectrum-lit technical death metal quartet whom feature native Canadian musicians as well as folks imported from Serbia and Australia. The important point to make as we vibe check the band, who’d formed after a chance record shop meeting in 2018, isn’t where they are from but rather what headspace they present together in sync — The simpatico these fellowes bring to the creative process undoubtedly informs the nails-heavy and dissonant yet smoothly pulsed resonance on offer throughout this, their debut full-length ‘Apexapien‘. - grizzlybutts