Falling Forever

by Chassm

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pinkytheent What a twisty stew of different moods and sounds! As the promo says, this is a "love letter" to heavy music by people who want to emulate the spirit of their favorite music while still adding their own sauce to the mix (no stale copycatting). That is the source of all good music: people who love a sound/mood and want to make the kind of music they love, the kind of music they want to hear, without just aping styles. This record was truly unexpected, and is thus good music. Favorite track: Relmless.

Pingouin at the crossroads between doom, heavy and sludge. the happy place

violator13 I like everything about the album. The mix of styles is just perfect and it brings back memories of so many other bands. I can't decide what my favorite song is, but if I had to choose, it would be "Drowning".

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1.	Dawn Gaia 04:23	buy track
2.	Absentia Terra 08:34	buy track
3.	Dolores 2.0 05:22	buy track
4.	Pariah 05:16	buy track
5.	OT VIII 08:02	buy track
6.	Drowning 05:58	buy track
7.	Relmless 09:53	buy track

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Art As Catharsis is proud to announce the release of Falling Forever, the bone-crushing debut from Brisbane doom/sludge/post outfit CHASSM.

CHASSM are a forward thinking post-metal duo, who balance progressive compositions with bleak, creative riff work drawing from post-rock, sludge, doom, and black metal. At times, the crust-ridden tone draws similarities to Fall of Efrafa and His Hero Is Gone. Yet in the same breath, listeners are hurled into blasting segments in a style akin to a gruesome, sludgier version Deafheaven or Russian Circles. Some might even detect an echo of early Mastodon’s progressive murk.

“This might sound ridiculous but CHASSM is me trying to invent a new emo music that isn’t fucking lame,” begins Guitarist/vocalist Elijah Lee. “It’s inspired by everything in my life or the world that is too heavy. Things that I struggle to grasp or understand, things that make me depressed, things that I wish wouldn’t happen because of the overbearing negativity said thing can cause in people’s lives. Sonically – we are a post everything band. ‘Doom meets black and post metal meets 2000s metalcore’ according to the online reviews - that kind of sums it up.”

As the first single from Falling Forever, Absentia Terror presents itself as a swamp of all things sinister. Fuzzed out tones, crusty, militant drumming and crushing low end stick in the ear like thick tar before the song rips into a blackened field of pulverising shredding. The transition from bleak to black is seamless – speaking volumes about the band’s talents, along with Lee’s ear for composition and flow.

“This song was one of the first written for the LP,” says Lee. “It’s nice and long - around 8 minutes and 30 seconds - which is very reflective of our roots. We’ve always strived to write and play long songs with complex structures and this song is Chassm to the core in that sense. Absentia Terror is about the past and present on our Earth. It represents the blooming periods of life and the chaotic periods of desolation and lifelessness. More specifically, this song is a pretty standard, juvenile, nihilistic dig at humanity and how we’ve gotten too big for our boots.”

In many ways, Falling Forever is a love-letter to some of the greatest metal of the past decade, scratching an itch that some might not have felt since picking up their first crust punk or black metal record many moons ago.

CHASSM successfully capture the fire and feeling of metal from the past three decades, adding a flicker of inventiveness which contemporary acts all too often fail to ignite. And others are taking note. Though the band is young, they’ve already supported a number of heavyweight international acts, including Sasquatch, Bongzilla, Yawning Man and Crowbar.

For us at Art As Catharsis, CHASSM represent nothing less than the most exciting heavy act to come out of the Australian underground in many years.

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released June 24, 2021

All songwriting/lyrics by Elijah Lee
All drum composition by Storm Mahan
Recorded and mixed @blackbloodaudio with Brendan Pip Auld
Mastered by Brad Boatright @ Audiosiege
Album Art and associated art by Elijah Lee
Vocal feature on track 7 ‘Relmless’ by Lucas Stevens (hurricane death, shitgrinder, skag, watch you die)

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