Some bands write songs about monsters. Complexant remind you that the real horror has always been sitting at the kitchen table, staring at unpaid bills.
Their latest single, “Afterlife,” is the second glimpse into the band’s upcoming debut album Apex, and it’s less about death itself than the crushing weight that can drag people towards it. Wrapped in the band’s signature avalanche of savage riffs, relentless percussion and inhuman vocals is a story that’s painfully grounded in reality.
Vocalist Dan Greigsy explains the devastating concept behind the track:
“A married couple struggling to make ends meet yet completely devoted to one another, make a suicide pact to escape their growing debt problems. The lyrics are almost like the final conversation of them convincing themselves to end it all, echoing out with the realization, ‘Nobody wants to live forever when you’re living the hard life and dying on the inside.'”
It’s heavy in every sense of the word.
The accompanying video, created by Adam Davis-Powell of Demon Race Productions, leans into a surreal silent-film aesthetic, with Beverley Moisey and Daniel Jagger delivering haunting performances that let the story breathe without ever pulling punches. It’s uncomfortable viewing—and that’s exactly the point.
If “Afterlife” is anything to judge by, Apex isn’t interested in giving listeners a moment to catch their breath. Across ten tracks, Complexant unleash a barrage of bone-crushing riffs, machine-like precision and monstrous vocals that hit with all the subtlety of a freight train through a cemetery.
The album has been mixed and mastered by Christian Donaldson (Cryptopsy), whose fingerprints are all over landmark releases from Suffocation, Despised Icon, Shadow of Intent and Ingested. After a string of acclaimed singles and 2023’s A Rite of Passage EP, Complexant look primed to kick the front door off the international death metal scene.
Apex lands July 31 via Bleeding Art Collective, in partnership with Blood Blast Distribution.
If this is what the afterlife sounds like… maybe hell really does have the better soundtrack.
