SPECIES - Albumankündigung & Musikvideo Premiere
20 Buck Spin proudly announces the second full-length of Polish power trio SPECIES, entitled "Changelings", set for release on September 19th 2025 on all formats.
Following the debut "To Find Deliverance" and a step up in every regard, "Changelings" is astonishing in its accomplished precision and how much it manages to achieve within the scope of individual tracks and as a cohesive whole. The album features an overload of angular guitar warfare, traditional Euro-thrash aggression with a modern resonance, rhythmic percussive seizures, and intricate basslines that make their intention deeply felt, not just following the guitar but dialoguing with it in a way that offers a second melodic brain to the album. In combination these elements thread seamlessly to give "Changelings" its colorful and uncanny vision, as if John Carpenter had co-produced "Rust In Peace" behind the iron curtain. It’s bristling with sci-fi paranoia, alien terror and a hint of Cold War menace. The early convergence of Thrash Metal with Death Metal is also unmistakably present in the shape-shifting sound of SPECIES.
While there’s more than enough primitive and traditional Thrash bands to go around, SPECIES embraces the genre’s lesser-travelled road of forward-thinking virtuosity and inventive experimentation, showing there’s still plenty of fertile ground to seed new musical territory. Nowhere is it more apparent than on 10-minute album closer "Biological Masterpiece", where SPECIES displays all its weapons; hyperspeed assaults, dystopian lulls and instrumental mastery, in a climatic saga beyond space and time. "Changelings" is that rare album nowadays that still has the ability to surprise in the most triumphant and euphoric way possible.
A music video for the first single "The Essence" is available here: https://youtu.be/djS0vmtLcRM
Tracklist:
1. Inspirit Creation
2. The Essence
3. Waves of Time
4. Voyager
5. Born of Stitch and Flesh
6. Terror Unknown
7. Biological Masterpiece
Line-up:
Piotr Drobina - Bass & Vocals
Przemysław Hampelski - Drums, Percussion
Michał Kępka –- Guitars
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