Graveborn Metempsychosis Review

Graveborn

Metempsychosis

Self-Release

2026

What happens with Dani Filth sings for Trivium or even TesseracT? You get Graveborn! 

Boston-based progressive death metal band GRAVEBORN are set to return this spring with the release of their fifth full-length album Metempsychosis.

There is so much to unpack with this band and this album. Per usual, I went in blind. I was met with so many unique time signatures, gutturals and this other worldly embrace of lyrics. 

Some highlights for me. I love that the music will be doing on thing and the singers sorta doing another. It adds this fun weaving of a song. You don’t know what to expect. The music is incredibly technical. Prog music and even Djent falls into those super technical time signatures that can sometimes be hard to follow. The vocalist is something special too from a technical aspect. It’s not easy to have the range and power that they have without throwing out your voice. I am also so fond of the reverb on the BLEGH. 

A couple of low lights. The mix felt a little off. I did listen to this the same way I always do, via sound cancelling headphones. For me the vocals were so pushed forward that sometimes I lost the music. This actually improves as the album goes on, but the first handful of songs were a bit distracting. 

A highlight track for me is Epistatic Drift. I’m so big into impactful lyrics that I was absolutely caught off guard with “we’re not who we pretend to be.” This was delivered in a more raw way. I don’t have adequate words for it. It was a punch to my soul.  

If you like Prog, djent, screaming, and heavy impactful lyrics. I’d say give Graveborn a listen! 

~Rook