PRESS RELEASE:
BLIGHTED EYE
Wretched
Self-Released
30 October 2020
Blighted Eye began as a simple creative outlet for guitarist Christopher Jones in 2018. Over the course of the subsequent year, Christopher further refined the direction and musical focus of the project, recruiting long time friend Kyle Chapman of Aethereus (The Artisan Era) to perform vocals and guitar. In 2020, the lineup was rounded out with the addition of drummer John Devos who plays in Mesmur (Solitude Productions), Comatose Vigil A. K (Non Serviam Records), etc. The group's debut four-song EP, Wretched was recently released on October 30th. Cover art for Wretched was created by Samuel Nelson (Stigma Art) known for his work with Allegaeon, Vale of Pnath, Virvum, First Fragment, and many more.
Hailing from Seattle, Washington, Blighted Eye serves up dense and mercurial progressive death metal driven by all things mournful and bleak. As founding member Christopher Jones states, "I’d say the overall sound is a death metal style that’s drawing from places like Opeth, Morbid Angel and Death while also striving for a dark/melancholy atmosphere."
The group's primary influences include Opeth, Dissection, Enslaved, Death, Megadeth, Katatonia, Slumber, and Agalloch. Slivers of which at a minimum are present throughout Wretched while the bulk of the group's style calls to mind Opeth, Death, and Dissection most of all. With their ambitious EP now released, the group is hard at work crafting what will become their first full-length album sometime in the future.
Blighted Eye - Wretched Band Statement
"The Blighted Eye experience is an introspective one that focuses on the perception of oneself, which in turn affects how one perceives the world. Even the band name is a reference to the mind’s eye so to speak. The lyrical themes on Wretched are very much about the destructive capacities of depression and feelings of isolation, anger, and nihility they create in spite of how much a person tries to fight against it. The music is meant to accompany the lyrical themes. Taking you through a range of emotions, but with a persistently dark undercurrent. So even a faster more upbeat track like Contempt has a certain melancholy to it. There are instances of riffs or motifs in songs that resurface, but shift in how they are played or are in a different context, which is keeping with the theme of perception and how that can change."
Blighted Eye is:
Christopher Jones - Guitars, Bass
Kyle Chapman - Guitars, Vocals (Aethereus)
John Devos - Drums and Percussion (Dalla Nebbia, Mesmur, Comatose Vigil A.K.)
Social Media Links
https://blightedeye.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/BlightedEye
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