CIVEROUS - Maze Envy (Full Album) 20 Buck Spin

CIVEROUS
Maze Envy
Released March 22nd 2024
LP / CD / TAPE / DIGITAL
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1. The Azure Eye (Intro) (0:00)
2. Shrouded in Crystals (2:01)
3. Endless Symmetry (10:26)
4. Labyrinth Charm (featuring Derek Rydquist) (12:55)
5. Levitation Tomb (17:35)
6. Maze Envy (22:52)
7. Geryon (The Plummet) (32:17)
Upon hearing ‘Decrepit Flesh Relic’, the first album from Civerous, one was left with a feeling of intense suffocating weight and agonal prostration in the service of bone-breaking death hymns. With the towering new album, ‘Maze Envy’, LA’s most creatively destructive Death / Doom ensemble let loose a freshly evolved but no less brutal conflagration of immersive horror and morbid lamentation.
Where Death / Doom may often stay in safe and unadventerous realms of narrow focus, Maze Envy’ presents a more far-reaching breadth of ambition, where unusual technicality, progressive atmospheres, string flourishes and chaotic mysticism radiate a purple light of the soul’s ascension from the black oceans of dread Civerous inhabit. Chain-dragging dirge, blackened blasting, and the savage ferocity of Lord Foul’s hellish vocal exorcisms exalt ‘Mazy Envy’ with a hellish grandeur within its myriad paths to oblivion.
With a massively crushing sound, ‘Maze Envy’ is end times music for an age in which that reckoning feels unfathomably close. Civerous batter the senses into a state of labyrinthian turmoil from which emergence is ever more implausible.
Lord Foul - Vocals
Daniel Salinas - Guitars
Alonso Santana - Guitars
Drew Horton - Bass
Aidan Neuner - Drums
Recorded between Winter 2022 - Summer 2023
Engineered, mixed and produced by Andrew Solis at Deadstare Audio
Additional engineering by Kevin McCombs at The Steakhouse, North Hollywood
Mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Sound
Cover art by Juanjo Castellano
Photography by Juliet Guzman
Layout by Dan Fried

[@rockman22]

Maybe one day I can afford a maze like that 😢

[@Croc-eb6cf]

Tea kettles and violins to set the mood

[@theanti-hypemonitor9079]

yes the music sounds exactly how the artwork looks

[@typicalrick]

Can’t believe it’s taken this long for there to be a metal album about mazes (which are inherently metal as fuck)

[@evilbrian66]

after i listened to this there was a pile of meat on the floor in front of my speakers, it started to take shape so i quickly ate it

[@cassiopiea8438]

Damn, that's a nice maze. Wouldn't mind getting me a maze like that.

[@NolanChisholm]

This is probably the best metal album of the past 5 years in my opinion.

[@00Mindi00]

Man, HOW does 20 Buck Spin keep finding these bands. Their roster now is fucking INSANE

[@alpinestar6125]

This, Sovereign and the new Skeletal Remains are hard to beat so far this year.

[@calebbean1384]

This is really good when youre peaking on a quarter of mushrooms

[@jr.elwood9326]

This is so good. I'm aMAZEd!

[@narasimha7187]

Fascinating listen. The violins add a dimension of lamentation and beauty. Best metal I've heard this year.

[@UponThisAltar]

OK, I've now completed my third listen of the album, and I have some notes. -The dual vocals with Derek on Labyrinth Charm absolutely rip. -2nd half of Levitation Tomb blew my mind. Probably my favorite part of the whole album. -Maze Envy front to back is easily one of the best metal tracks I have heard in a half decade. I can't believe how good this album is. It hits almost all of my tastes, it's baffling how it flows together so well. Truly, a "Watershed" album in metal. 😏

[@junomuro]

Riffs got me torqued up like a missile

[@Suikevrije]

To see a great cover and to hear a great band

[@trve_devvotion]

never heard of these guys before. after a minute of listening to this I can safely say that I'm a fan now. this absolutely rips!!🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@MrRetrogamingBard]

Early 2024 AOTY contender to my ears. Surprised the hell out of me.

[@bmwookie]

I really wish that maze was mine...

[@k-vn-7]

🤘🤘🤘This album is bad ass. 20 Buck Spin keeps 'em coming!

[@paulbglaubly]

16:28 has turned me into a gargoyle. I am now channeling fetid runoff through my body entire and belching it onto the streets below. Thanks Maze!

[@neinstein-says]

Well.. this album slaps! The perfect mix of psychedelic, cavernous, doomy death to pull me into the abyss. The production slays too.. I love the bass, especially on the title track.

[@xnflg3074]

i love death metal that commits to a very specific album-wide feeling and/or loose conceptual vibe. this has that in spades. really freaking cool. special stuff.

[@xJOHNNYxRUMBLEx]

Proud of you boys. Album is fuckin killer🔥🔥Love from the Bionic Records crew 🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾

[@ninerfan9077]

This absolutely slays ass. Well done gentlemen

[@benjaminvullers2359]

Purple Reign. Mourning Beloveth on steroids. Friggin masterpiece.

[@Ihateclerics]

I’m so envious of this maze!

[@davidmain1198]

The drummer is a STUD

[@Jason-lz8pt]

20 Buck Spin literally puts out nothing but fire wtf!?

[@Ch4roon]

End of my first full listen: Very good blacken Death with a psyche side while remaining very groovy. I liked the atmospheres, the progressions, the rhythms, the dissonances, the volumes, the calms before the storm to breathe, a very warm sound like I love (death must burn damn!) the production and the mixing in general. I loved the trip, they took me by the hand and took me far away . It is one of the most original and accomplished albums that I have heard this year. Thank you to everyone who participated in this cake, very good job! Bravo. I recommend l,,/

[@rudijoris9555]

20 Buck Spin comes through again!! So good!!

[@nicholasromig5506]

Endless Symmetry feels so haunting. Both beautiful and inescapable.

[@krankinthehog4984]

20BuckSpin is giving us bangers! preordered!!

[@nivrothvalachus7969]

disgustingly good!!

[@ChristMetalMayhem]

Here I am 2 months later, still stuck in this devious maze.

[@stevenwestfall7638]

Listening to this band for the first time. Trying get my mind in order. This orders my thoughts. Love this.

Very awesome atmospheric, doom vibes. Loved it!

[@dante666jt]

Now this is the production i like! Dirging, suffocating, murky!

[@leerobbo92]

Holy fuck this is an experience

[@JamesParatiiArts]

looking forward to seeing these guys at Austin Death Fest in a month!

[@shaansiton7884]

I was gonna say this sounds like The Faceless' Planetary Duality then I realized they actually have a song featuring Derek Rydquist lol

[@francof2732]

do they play in weddings?

[@chromegnats]

Driving in the pouring rain listening to this is a real treat. Thanks 20BS, for all the absolute heat! Love this band, love this label. ❤👍

[@helga496]

DAMN

[@nahlzahran]

What a closer!!!

[@extrememind100]

Wow the Production is back to 99s

[@patient666zero]

twenty is my new favorite number!

[@TedCruzMissile331]

Super underrated band, shit is nuts. These mfers got riffs

[@nathanhyde2079]

This is an a-maze-ing album \m/\m/

[@patrickpira1527]

Tremendous! 🤘💀🤘

[@TheJonathanDale]

Just ordered the traditional black lp.

[@burakgulguler]

crushing tones!

[@nodtveidt6663]

Really innovative stuff, very serious aura

[@eversosleight]

Beasty 🍾

[@michaell3105]

saw these guys last year at a tiny venue and they slayed. this album is a masterpiece for sure

[@eskoriakiebraqeyo7942]

ooowweeee imagine getting lost in that thang...

[@sonny1968]

Man you guys are awesome every release via 20bs is always sick

[@WearmobGaming]

Needed this today 🙌

[@realjohnlithium]

Have had this on repeat for a while now. Absolute banger.

[@Lilmacmcmo]

2024's AOTY is going to be hard to choose. So many bangers have already come out and it's only May 🤘🏼

[@ashleybrown4754]

I could tell by the album cover this was going to be amazing. Atmospheric as fuucckk.

[@RoryLynott]

Mandatory Heavy Listening.

[@motherofgraves]

Hell yea, y'all! Good stuff!

[@Nagumo-sc3pv]

Yeaaaaaah, thank u 😅

[@Dems-fk8sh]

It's great ! And I can't wait for the next Witch Vomit either!

[@nervous_habits]

Great tones on the gits

[@deathnecrobutcher3215]

i can here autopsy Mental funeral vibes

[@concussion2757]

Amazing album

[@f4rz102]

This is gooooood

[@eugenetkachev]

top tier metal

[@johnnydarter]

Great album 4/5. Geryon is the BEST track 🤘

[@bastiii6514]

Fantastic Intro🦇 Perfekt Album👍

[@vommir.]

Nice touch the strings. Amazing album!

[@nahlzahran]

AOTY

[@dambo8822]

Great stuff 🔥

[@jamesangel4366]

Yay

[@Grindermetalhead]

This is a pretty fucking good album. One of the better ones I heard so far this year.

[@josedias1387]

Very good 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@sixstringmetal8559]

The violins gave an insidious (movie) vibe

[@KevinTarrant-by3fi]

Great album!🔥😈🤘🖤☕

[@anthonyjordan830]

fuck yeah. Decrepit Flesh Relic was killer.

[@Enkifer]

Keep it brutal! Cheerz from Brazil! Favorite track: Geryon (The plummet)

[@ThinKwiQ]

I've been looking so forward to this!!!🤘🤘🤘

[@levioftelie9405]

Heavyweight Champions 2024

[@channaliba]

Oh staaahhp with the Edgard Varèse, foos 🪱

[@overthoughtmusik772]

Maybe I'm A Maze

[@annihilation777]

Bass tone

[@soulslot5369]

death by maze, brutal! 🔥💀🤘

[@Metalslime420]

🐐🐐🐐

[@vxxiii4160]

I heard this album slaps

[@adammmtee]

When will more vinyl be in stock?!

[@20buckspinlabel]

Check the website. Cheaper than BC and you still get the Bandcamp DL

[@noise_avocation]

Anyone interested checkout our interview with Alonso & Daniel from Civerous on Noise Avocation Podcast (Streaming everywhere)

[@JazzyJay716]

My new addiction

[@jonhopp]

Just me or do I hear some Demigod influence? Either way this is fire.

[@hexxFemme]

the band's font/logo gave me an orgasm

[@tunafish648]

I was listening to this while walking to go get some pho and I saw a mutilated cat.

[@sdp7x7]

Mazecore

[@calderonugaldesalvador1662]

Disgusting 🤓