The Famine: Architects Of Guilt – new album / Ad Mortem – new video

Second album by Texas metal outfit, THE FAMINE, entitled ‘Architects Of Guilt’ is being released today, February 15th, 2011 (15. 2. 2011) via Solid State Records. The album was produced by D. Braxton Henry and mixed by Jason Suecof. The video, available below, was directed by Michael Dalton.

THE FAMINE, featuring ex-members of now defunct band EMBODYMENT - vocalist Chris McCaddon, drummer Mark Garza, and guitarist Andy Godwin, formed in 2007 and released their first record for Solid State Records in 2008. ‘The Raven And The Reaping’ was recorded with Andreas Magnusson. “If SUFFOCATION was covering PANTERA songs, that’s how THE FAMINE sounds,” explained vocalist McCaddon. In January 2010 the band announced the departure of lead singer and co-founder Chris McCaddon and bassist Nick Nowell has since taken over vocal duties. The group recruited a new bassist, Jon Richardson. THE FAMINE promises the new album to be “faster, more technical, even abrasive and discomforting, trading shear aggression and energy for the lifeless sweeps and mechanized beats that have come to dominate and dilute the genre.” According to a press release, the lyrics “forego empty threats and skip the subtleties, calling out the deceit and duplicity of our leaders, and the decay next door masked by a flaking white picket fence and a familiar chemical scent.” Furthermore: “The band traces the fractures in stone pillars and cracks along the marble walls, sets their tools down after 11 tracks and walks away as if saying, ‘Don't come to us when the temple falls.’”