CABAL by Palace of Worms

Operating since 2007, California-based Avant Metal project Palace of
Worms has a diverse and accomplished oeuvre that reflects its
creator’s eccentric and often bizarre tastes and sensibilities. From the
project’s early origins as a raging and misanthropic Black Metal band
to its more recent releases which incorporate influences such as
Doom, Death, Progressive, Ambient, and Electronica, each POW
release is a completely different beast. Sole member Nicholas “Balan” Katich sees no point in marinating in the stagnant pools of orthodoxy and believes evolution to be the true path.

“Cabal” is the latest and final full-length statement from the project.
Keeping with past tendencies towards unpredictability “Cabal”
presents a wholly different approach than the mostly Post-Black Metal
sound of the previous full-length “The Ladder”. Where “The Ladder”
flirted with Progressive Rock and Doom sounds “Cabal” fully
embraces these influences and throws elements of Deathrock,
Electronica, Folk, and Death Metal into the quagmire. What results is
the most personal and accomplished work the project has ever
produced and its themes reflect its creator’s worldview after 4
decades of life. It casts the past in darkness but also looks cautiously
forward, ever searching for the light to guide its narrator into a
hopeful future.

Originally POW was solely the work of Balan, but on “Cabal” he is
joined by an accomplished cast of co-conspirators including Trevor
Deschryver (Lycus, Silence in the Snow, Deafheaven), Sammy Fielding
(Noctooa), Roberto Martinelli (Botanist), Dylan Neal (Thief), Shelby
Lermo (Vastum, Ulthar) Hunter Burgan (AFI), Andy Way (Thoabath,
Sutekh Hexen), Elizabeth Gladding (Lotus Thief, Forlesen), Meghan
Wood (Crown of Asteria) and more.

“Cabal” presents kaleidoscopic visions of subterranean carnival
netherworlds, pale winter skies dotted with Ravens a flight, moonlit
necropolises which play host to clandestine, and diabolical rituals,
and the metaphorical immolation of the ego from which the Phoenix
of transcendence and ecstatic freedom will arise. Light and dark
refracting through the broken prism of the mind’s eye over 8 tracks.
Descend into the depths of the subterranean lair of the “Cabal”: the
place where the monsters live.

A Bay Area based label dedicated primarily to the release of unique and original black metal with the occasional experimental or ambient release thrown in for good measure.

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