CAST THE STONE
EMPYREAN ATROPHY

Cast The Stone is composed of current and ex-members of Misery Index, Cattle Decapitation and Scour (feat. Philip Anselmo). The membership has varying tastes, as represented by their other projects, but they seem to convene in an appetite for American and Swedish Death Metal. One can distinctly hear sounds similar to Dismember, Grave, At The Gates and other proponents of the genre. But there are also artisan elements one could liken to to more dark and progressive Swedish acts such as Opeth, Edge Of Sanity and Dissection. Perhaps this reason alone, Dan Swanö was a clear choice for production (having produced or had been a member of some of the aforementioned bands). Cast The Stone emerge not as some metal supergroup, but as a project of the original and purest intent of its membership. Hybridizing the dark ferocity of Swedish death metal through a lens of American brutality, the band hits a creative stride with "Empyrean Atrophy".