Certitude, the debut full-length from Portuguese post-black metallers Vulpus will be officially released on June 25th by the famous Pest Productions (Ghost Bath, Zuriaake, Avulsed, Unreqvited, Sol Sistere). The album was recorded and mastered by Daniel Valente of Chaos Armed Studios (Redemptus, Mist, Windbreak).

This release is centered on anthropocentrism, offering an approximately 40-minute journey through the confines of existentialist introspection through post-black elements, traditional black metal, noise / drone and ambient, combined with new and old-school elements of black metal.

You can find everything on this schizophrenic record: blast beats, noise interludes, sampling and a careful production. The concept of the album revolves around the notions of anomie, the absurd of Camus and anthropocentrism. Aires, from Casa Amarela Collective, is a special guest on the last track of the album.

1.Dysphoria

2.No More Shall I Seek Comfort Amidst These Piles of Rust

3.Like Troxler's Fading

4.Certitude I

5.Certitude II

6.Along Obsidian Shores

7.Hell is Truth Seen Too late

Today Baio unveiled the first single “Philosophy!” from his forthcoming sophomore solo album, Man of the World. Set for release on June 30th via Glassnote Records, the album was recorded in Brixton and co-produced by Chris Baio and John Foyle. Man Of The World is the follow-up to Baio’s 2015 full-length solo debut, The Names. The album’s single, ‘Sister of Pearl,‘ debuted on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers, was a hit at US alternative radio and has been streamed nearly 10 million times on Spotify. A resident of London, Chris Baio is also the bass player of the Grammy-winning band Vampire Weekend.

Built on an irresistible groove, first single “Philosophy!” is a deceptively buoyant breakup song chronicling a terminal failure of communication. Written amidst the false equivalencies, polarising fake news and gridlocked shouting matches that characterised political life in the last year, it’s about what we talk about when we are realising that philosophising is not powerful enough to change anyone’s mind. The song is a reflection of an album whose themes of alienation, paranoia, and political will to power are belied by airy melodies and a crystalline pop sheen.

Baio said: “Writing Man of the World was my way of processing 2016, a year that began with the death of my favorite artist, David Bowie, and ended with the greatest political disruption of my adult life – all while I was a nomad, an American living in London, touring two continents, never fully of either place. It’s partially about being trapped in my own head, obsessing about things it was too late to change, feeling afraid and guilty and alone. It’s also my attempt to document a certain sense of loss that felt both intensely personal and like part of a larger collective experience many were going through at once.”

Listen to ‘Philosophy!’ here

Track Listing:

1. Vin Mariani

2. The Key is Under the Mat

3. Out of Tune

4. PHILOSOPHY!

5. Exquisite Interlude

6. DANGEROUE ANAMAL

7. Man of the World

8. Sensitive Guy

9. I’m Not Curious

10. Shame in My Name 

11. Be Mine