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GRAVEBORN Unleashes Title Track Playthrough From Forthcoming Album Metempsychosis

Boston-based progressive death metal outfit GRAVEBORN is giving fans a first taste of their highly anticipated fifth full-length, Metempsychosis , with a playthrough video of the title track. The album is set to drop April 3, and this latest preview showcases guitarist Chris Ramusiewicz in full shred mode. Watch the video:

Vocalist John Leblanc describes the song as the "core statement of the album."

“It’s the track where everything shifts from what is happening to me to what is happening through me,” Leblanc explains. “ Metempsychosis is not a cute spiritual idea here. It’s a brutal, continuous process. The soul persists across lifetimes, but not in a sentimental way. It persists through reconstruction, through collapse, through the repeated loss of form. It’s endurance through transformation.”

Leblanc continues, emphasizing the philosophical underpinning of the album:

“Ideas move the way souls move. They don’t just appear. They transfer. They are inherited. They go dormant. They reawaken. They show up inside someone like a realization, but they may have been traveling through bloodlines, culture, trauma, resilience, and repetition for generations. This is not passive. It’s evolutionary. Each cycle reshapes what it carries forward. The self is not a fixed object. It’s a changing vessel. The essential nature persists, but the expression changes, sometimes violently.”

The track’s chorus mirrors this complexity, fragmenting as language itself struggles to capture the concept of continuity and transformation:

“Ego fades. Boundaries dissolve. Self becomes pattern. Awareness becomes primary. I’m not the origin of who I am. I’m part of a continuum. My life is not a standalone story. It’s one iteration in a larger transmission.”

Metempsychosis spans 11 tracks and sees GRAVEBORN confronting both personal and societal collapse, exploring the mechanisms of continuity amidst destruction.

Since 2021’s Transmigrator , GRAVEBORN has spent five years crafting this magnum opus, challenging listeners to stare into both the internal and external abyss. Metempsychosis does not offer easy answers; instead, it confronts destruction as an essential part of continuity, asking a single relentless question: what remains when everything else is gone?

Pre-orders for the album are available now at gravebornma.bandcamp.com, and the title track, along with previous singles, are streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.