Technical death metal
USA

Released 10th April, 2026

When one hears mention of Nashville, Tennessee, the mind will instantly bring up country music and the Grand Ole Opry House. As an outsider from the “red coat” side of the world, the most metal thing from the Buckle of the Bible Belt was Jack Daniel’s. Even though that is from down the road, the heritage stays.
Little did I realise that INFERI, the tech death outfit also call the Music City their home.

HEAVEN WEPT is the seventh album from Tennessee’s troubadours of technical tunes, with tenacity in the tracks available.
The four piece have hit the sweet spot of virtuosity, velocity and accessibility.

With an instant start, THE RAPTURE OF DEAD LIGHT charges straight in, all guns blazing. With a blend of blackened and melodic death metal, there is lots to pick from the one song. The riffs twist and contort around the ballistic fury of drums while the vocals are pin point accurate in timing. A trend that carries through the tracks FEED ME YOUR FEAR and ATONEMENT DENIED.

There are also callbacks to those days when Atheist and Cynic were coming up , like on MASTER OF NOTHING, especially in the guitar’s lead work.

Brutalists are catered for on ETERNALLY LIE and the title track, and they are as caveman as INVERI can get, the chunky onslaught is emboldened with some symphonic strings, making for a refreshing listen.
Things are brought back to INFERI levels of normal with the two final tracks.
OF ROTTED WOMBS and GODLESS SKY are terrifyingly terrific tomes of technical godlessness, laced with a symphonic, blackened deliverance.

If someone was to blind test this album, I would wager every pretext connected to death metal would emerge. The worst part is that everyone would be right, in the best way possible.
INVERI have not only adopted tech death, on HEAVEN WEPT, they have found it in themselves to foster the entire death family with open arms and given a healthy collective to call home.
Heaven may need to dry some eyes, because I may shed a few tears having to find a single album of the year come 2027.

HEAVEN WEPT is out now via The Artisan Era records on all major streaming sites, as well as on digital and physical format through the INFERI Bandamp.