Tides Of Death With JASON EVANS From INGESTED

Interview by Kris Peters
Manchester death metal outfit Ingested are the gift that keeps on
giving.
Since their 2020 album Where Only God May Tread, the three-piece
masters of metal have released roughly one album per year,
culminating in The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams which will be
unleashed via Metal Blade Records on April 5.
Following the bleak firestorm that was Ashes Lie Still, Ingested
have produced a more upbeat body of work that more reflects where
the band are at personally in their lives.
Never afraid to experiment within and beyond their genre, Ingested
thread a myriad of subtleties through each new release, allowing
themselves to explore different sonic plains while still remaining
true to their core. It is an approach that has seen the band rise
rapidly through the ranks and should see them ascend even further
with The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams.
The band produced the album themselves with the guidance of
recording engineer Nico Beninato, further expanding their musical
horizons, with guest appearances from Chimaira's Mark Hunter and
Sylosis' Josh Middleton enhancing the finished product.
Vocalist Jason Evans joined HEAVY to tell us more.
"We've been sitting on this album for well over a year now," he
began. "We released our last album Ashes Lie Still in November 2022
and then four weeks after that album was released, in December
2022, we went into the studio and recorded The Tide Of Death And
Fractured Dreams, so we've had this album done and dusted for well
over a year. The way that we like to work is we like to work ahead,
because we're always writing. So when an album's done, it's done.
Let's just get in there, get in the studio, get it recorded, then
what we're doing then is we're giving ourselves time to really
prepare for the announcement and release of the album. So we've had
a year to make sure the artwork looks amazing, make sure the music
videos are all looking great, so that's how we like to work. We'd
rather give ourselves the time to make sure everything's exactly
how we want it to be for the presentation of the album so when it
does get announced and people know that it's coming, everything is
ready. We don't like rushing around. We like it done. I'm excited
to finally announce to everyone that it exists and that it's coming
out. We don't have to wait that long, but in the meantime we've
just released the first single, Paragon Of Purity, with a music
video. That's doing really well. All our fans seem to love it, and
then we've got more. We've got more coming out in the run-up to the
album's release and probably beyond the release as well. We've got
loads of stuff coming. We've just announced a headline tour through
the UK and Europe, which runs through April and May. We're taking
out Fallujah and Vulvodynia, so I'm excited. It's gonna be yet
another busy year for us."
In the full interview, Jason talks more about The Tide Of Death And
Fractured Dreams and what to expect, what Ingested were going for
musically, what things the band experimented with, the two guest
artists on the album and what they each brought to their song, the
process of producing and the benefits to the band of knowing how,
their release process and how the band harnesses its creativity,
fans reactions to such frequent releases, how much musical growth
Ingested have in them and more.
HEAVY would like to thank our sponsor RODE. Intro music and end
song 'Paragon Of Purity' by Ingested.