For those unaware, Ten Billion Years chronicles a water molecule’s entire existence, reimagined through Kilter’s dense jazz-metal textures.

It was composed collectively from 50-measure sketches at 50 BPM written by each band member. The piece was built from a 10-minute recording that was slowed down by four times to create a 40-minute album, inspired by John Cage’s As Slow As Possible.

The album is a grand, instrumental deep dive into the birth, life, and inevitable death of our solar system. Described as a true labor of love that took over two years to create, it features heavy dynamic contrasts and spontaneous avant-garde compositions.

Side A:
1. Built & Broken [3:38]
2. Falling & Vaporizing [4:42]
3. Raining & Raining [3:40]
4. Rivers & Ocean [4:29]
5. Depth & Darkness [4:11]

Side B:
1. Living & Rising [4:50]
2. Weather Cycle [3:46]
3. Awakening & Living [3:16]
4. Darkness Again [3:12]
5. Escaping To Infinity [3:25]

Releasing the beautiful new vinyl LP from its sleeve, smelling that new-vinyl-smell, smiling, placing it onto the turntable and gently dropping the needle, inspired by artists as diverse as John Coltrane, Sunn O))) and Meshuggah, Kilter open on a heavy distortion that pulses through Built & Broken and the film-noir styling of Falling & Vaporizing and then they bring us the goth metal-stanced Raining & Raining, the atmospherically-charged Rivers & Ocean and the slow-to-mid tempo’d aesthetics of Depth & Darkness rounds out the first side.

Flipping the vinyl over, and the second side opens on the evocatively impassioned Living & Rising and the strident, engaging fare of Weather Cycle and then we are gifted some darkly melodious cadences that course throughout the brilliant affecting Awakening & Living and the key moods coupled with syncopated rhythms of Darkness Again, the new set coming to an all-too-soon close on a niche, moody cross-pollination of horror-film atmosphere and complex musicianship within Escaping To Infinity.

Musicians:
Laurent David — bass
Ed Rosenberg III — saxophone
Kenny Grohowski — drums

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