To coincide with the announcement of their second album “Daily Grind of the Medieval Age”, Gorotica is releasing their third single from the upcoming record, along with an accompanying video clip. Titled “Sage, Clove and Powdered Bone”, this song sees the band tone down the blasting snares and churning guitars and instead delve into a mid-paced, old school-inspired death metal number.
Rumbling kick drums and tremolo guitars kick off the proceedings before dropping into a groovy, doomy verse where Jon Von Cannibale’s bellowing, guttural vocals lead the song through a tale of necrocannibalistic rituals, questionable recipes and shoddy sorcery practices, in the hopes of raising a corpse back from the dead to become a grisly “fresh” meal.
Catchy choruses bookend a syncopated bridge section, head-nodding bass break and a memorable melodic guitar solo, before returning to a modified revisitation of the verse. The final chorus builds an atmosphere of creeping anticipation culminating in an outro of distant tortured howls and weeping guitar leads guiding the track to its eerie conclusion.
The video clip follows these grim lyrical and musical depictions, featuring the band performing in a black void, dressed in hooded medieval monk garb obscuring their identities. The B-roll footage provides a visual conjuring of the ritual, showing Jon Von Cannibale at his dimly lit alchemical work station, crafting and preparing a mixture in his trusty skull mortar and pestle. Pouring this vile concoction into the mouth of the prepared cadaver, he chants some supposed words of power, and after gesticulating with his wooden staff, the body begins to convulse with life. With a now living corpse before him, he begins his long awaited feast…
“Sage, Clove and Powdered Bone” releases on August 1st on all streaming platforms, and will officially appear on the second Gorotica full-length album “Daily Grind of the Medieval Age” releasing on October 3rd.
