Five days ahead of its September 25th release, Mantric, the Norwegian progressive metal trio comprised of former members of Extol, are streaming their new album Sin in it’s entirety (listen below).

Sin will be released on vinyl and digital download through Loyal Blood Records. The follow-up to the band’s debut album The Descent, released in 2010 by Prosthetic Records, was recorded between Subsonic Society Studio with Tommy Akerholdt (Turbonegro) overseeing the drums/guitars tracking and Cipralexed Studio with Tor Magne Glidje handling bass, guitars, synths and vocals recordings. The nine-track album was later mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley at The Atomic Garden in San Francisco.

Pre-orders for "Sin" are available at this location.

The cover artwork was designed by Linda B Rønning.

Tracklisting:

“FaithFaker”
“On The Horizon”
“Give Me Eyes”
“Arrogance vs. Anxiety”
“Die Old”
“Maranatha”
“Anhedoniac”
“In The Shadow Of My Soul”
“Black Eyes”
 

Mantric is an experimental prog trio from Oslo, Norway comprised of three-fifths of underrated metal innovators Extol, vocalist/guitarist Ole Sveen, guitarist/vocalist Tor Glidje and bassist/vocalist John Mjåland. The three have been playing together for more than 20 years now, first in progressive black-metal group Lengsel, then in prog-metal innovators Extol, having contributed to the band’s classic and final album “The Blueprint Dives”, before disbanding in 2007.

Formed in that same year, Mantric pick up where they left off on The Blueprint Dives, determined to push boundaries and avoid easy categorization. The band’s debut album under the name Mantric, The Descent, was released in 2010 and clearly reflects such unbreakable artistic vision, fusing a unique, experimental metal and post-punk sound with some challenging and powerful proggy tones, though this new incarnation sounds more refined and cultivated than before.

Now five years later, Mantric are set to return with their second full-length titled Sin, a defining step forward in their evolution as a band that have always followed their own path and as individual artists that have always aimed higher than the vast majority of their peers.

(Photo - Fred Arne Wergeland)