Texas-based DEAD TO A DYING WORLD has created an album of monstrous proportions with the follow-up to their 2011 self-titled debut album, as Litany delivers over an hour and thirteen minutes of apocalyptic metal through six massive tracks which thrive somewhere between doom, blackened crust, and dark post-rock. Litany was recorded at The Echo Lab, produced, engineered, and mixed by Billy Anderson with additional engineering by Matt Pence and Justin Collins, pre-production by Chris Williams at Tidepool Studios, with mastering duties handled by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

The seven-member lineup includes vocalists Heidi Moore and Mike Yeager, viola player Eva Vonne, guitarists Sean Mehl and Gregg Prickett, James Magruder on bass, multiple types of guitars and piano, and Cyrus Meyers on drums, concert bass, and orchestra bells. Also invited into the collaborative fold for guest appearances on this album are some of the creative minds behind Pallbearer, Sabbath Assembly, and Pinkish Black, whose contributions bring the entrancing narrative within Litany an unapologetic authenticity. The band’s sound reaches brilliant new heights on Litany; the record is a statement, a mantra, an epilogue, yet it gives just a hint to the musical manuscript underwritten by DEAD TO A DYING WORLD.

The 2xLP version of Litany is for those who truly appreciate the aesthetic value of deluxe packaging and heavyweight color vinyl, pressed on two slabs of gold and black splatter 200-gram vinyl, with heavyweight spot-varnish printed jackets with foil-embossed graphics. [Tofu Carnage Records / Gilead Media / Alerta Antifascista Records]