July 4, 2024 - SOMEWHERE OVER CENTRAL FLORIDA

 

Fireworks rip through pregnant storm clouds, potassium nitrate feeding heat lightning. Smoke and fog settle into a blurry, choking miasma as the three brothers that compose ENDPYRE contemplate their relationship to the State on this high holy day of American excess and blind patriotism.

 

Eric (bass, sampling) has lived a life actively avoiding government controls. A master carpenter and tinkerer, his woodshop sings day and night with the hum of self-sufficiency and innovation. Endlessly selfless and with a healthy distaste for authority, Eric’s generous work has helped friends, family, and community in their times of need – a force of light and creation standing against a State that seeks to dissolve the simple bonds of humanity that bind us all together.

 

Calder (vocals) almost lost everything to the State in their struggle for autonomy. Caught in the same vicious cycle that plagues the poor, oppressed, and neurodivergent in every corner of this heartless country, a string of mental health and substance abuse emergencies in early adulthood were met with carceral force and control. Struggling to find a sense of self and stability in a deliberately cruel, for-profit system, it took almost a decade to climb out from under the thumb of the State. Now, Calder fights for the liberation of all whose necks bear bootprints.

 

MC (guitars, synths) spent the last decade of his life in service to the ideal of the shining city on the hill as a soldier in the US Army’s Special Operations Forces. Though he sought to be a protector, he found himself just another in a long line of idealistic fools turned into tools of State-sponsored imperialistic violence. Mustered out on disability, a trail of fallen comrades and moral injury stalk his shadow as MC seeks absolution for the acts of a decaying empire that sends all to the slaughter for the price of their soul.

 

With the incomparable Travis Orbin on drums and Jamie King at the helm, ENDPYRE’s debut EP is a genre-bending shot across the bow of American exceptionalism. Mirroring the four classical elements, Elemental bears the base components of ENDPYRE’s sound and story: groovy sludge and progressive soundscapes propel indignant, southern-fried vocals through themes of politics, mental health, and climate change in this sub-twenty-minute barnburner for fans of classic metalcore, alt rock, and progressive death metal alike. 

Join ENDPYRE at the funeral pyre for empire’s end with the release of Elemental, out October 4th.