Det Eviga Leendet Releases Third Album "Vehemence"

Swedish black metal collective Det Eviga Leendet has released its third album, "Vehemence", on November 13. The record marks the band's first release via Debemur Morti Productions, and the full album is now streaming.

Formed in Uppsala in 2015 and named after Pär Lagerkvist's 1920 existentialist novel, the band has built its sound around contrasts of beauty and suffocation, vastness and claustrophobia. "Vehemence" was recorded by Kristofer Jönson (Barrens, Jeniferever) and mixed and mastered by Magnus Lindberg (Cult of Luna, Ulcerate), with vocals from Jacob Buczarski (Mare Cognitum, Acathexis).

Lyrically, the album returns to the themes the band has explored since its inception: collapse as the only constant, and perception hardening into conviction and then detachment. In the band's own words:

"Vehemence" channels an indignant psychosis - the scrawling of divine madness twisted by irreverence, a fevered cacophony of inverted glossolalia.