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TURBID NORTH announce the release of their long awaited third studio album The Decline on January 20th 2023. To celebrate this news they have dropped a new music video for the first single from The Decline "The Old Ones".

Turbid North's first new release in seven years, The Decline unites extremes of metal and rock in glorious ways. First single "The Old Ones" melds mournful guitar flourishes into its metallic assault, resulting in a track as lustrous and ominous as it is brutal. As the song charges forward, guitarist/vocalist Nick Forkel's deeply soulful playing bears equally the melodicism and weight of his three earliest guitar heroes: David Gilmour, Tony Iommi, and James Hetfield. Monster bassist Chris O'Toole, a member of Unearth, locks into machine-like harmony with drummer Jono Garrett who flows with power and grace at all tempos. 

Set within a sci-fi world, The Decline is nonetheless rooted in real life struggles. Forkel describes the concept: "It's all part of one story. It's a collection of songs that delves into the downfall and self-destruction of a person. I went through some personal things that spawned this idea. Real experiences influenced these songs, lyrically and musically. It's darker and more personal for me than any other Turbid North record."

On The Decline, layers of radiant space-rock, suffocating doom, and full-blast death-grind combine into a stunner of a comeback from this Alaska-born, Texas-based band. Owning the territory between Black Sabbath, Crowbar, and Napalm Death, The Decline is one of the first crucial metal albums of 2023 and a must for music fans of all stripes.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely by Forkel, The Decline is a transcendent experience – its unique combination of aggressive and atmospheric elements strikes a balance of sheer speed, earthquaking intensity, and rapturous beauty.