Bay Area death metallers OBLIVION has released the orchestral track ‘Shred’ for streaming. Watch the video below.

Vocalist Nick Vasallo commented: “As a band, Oblivion doesn't want to just fit into the typical death metal category. Sure, we come from primarily a death metal background and we fulfill all the stylistic criteria associated with it. But we want our music to have broad conceptions and extreme depth. I composed a piece called ‘Multiverse’ that exists within two universes: metal and classical. The notes are identical and the music functions both as modern art music and modern extreme metal. We hired some of the top string players in the Bay Area to perform the work and recorded video of the sessions. One of the aspects that I want to bring from the metal world into the classical is the physical embodiment of the music. Notice how the musicians are almost obligated to move their bodies and headbang to the music in order to rhythmically play it. Shred is very rhythmic and, like a metal musician, requires total physical involvement with the music. The second movement ‘Long Deaf Hate’ is a tribute to a band that every metalhead knows and by the end of the piece they should recognize the quotation from which I draw all the musical material from. Shred is just one example of the classical music aspects that encompass our structural composition. There is also a lot of counterpoint in our music, like the Canon in E minor, which maybe we'll save for a later video.”

The track is one of three bonus tracks off the band’s new album Called To Rise which was released on January 1st.

Tracklisting is as follows:

‘Oblivion part 1: The Chant of Tyrants’

‘Black Veils Of Justice’

‘Between Suns Of Light’

‘Binary Souls’

‘Reclamation’

‘Canon 1 in E minor’

‘Annunaki’

‘Reigns In Fire’

‘Cancer Of Wraiths’

‘Multiverse’

‘Oblivion part 2: Infinite Descent’