BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER: Stream The Title-Track Off Upcoming Debut EP “Windows Drenched In Red”!

The Metallist PR
Jun 24
2 min read

Canadian black metal/sludge duo BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER will release its debut EP Windows Drenched In Red on July 29th on the main digital streaming platforms. Today the band has revealed the title-track. You can stream it at the below links:

Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/54nrcnrw

Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/jd75zyh7

Apple Music: https://tinyurl.com/y2se7w5j

Dive into the vast oceans of the title track, where the black metal fury of the first part gives way to a second part full of pathos. In this song, the band does not give up on small progressive moments, demonstrating that their creative baggage is truly remarkable.

Windows Drenched In Red is a conceptual plunge into the psyche of a purposeless entity adrift between dimensions. Blending elements of black metal, ambient despair, and fractured melodies, the album chronicles the entity’s chaotic intrusion into the human realm. As it stirs unrest and distorts perception, it becomes a mirror to humanity’s own violent footprint across unseen, lesser realms.

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER: Stream The Title-Track Off Upcoming Debut EP “Windows Drenched In Red”! — Blood Brain Barrier

Emerging from the liminal spaces between doom and transcendence, BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER is a blackened doom sludge metal project that blends crushing sonic weight with cerebral exploration. The two-piece outfit is composed of Isabelle Tazbir on vocals and Mrudul Kamble, who commands guitar, drums, and bass with equal intensity. Together, they craft sprawling, dissonant compositions that channel raw emotion through a lens of conceptual abstraction.

Drawing inspiration from genre-defying pioneers like Wolves in the Throne Room, Opeth, Thou, Sub Rosa and Krallice, the band fuses the atmospheric expanse of black metal with the oppressive density of sludge, creating music that is as meditative as it is punishing. Their sound is ritualistic, a slow-burning immolation built on textured riffs, layered rhythms, and visceral vocal incantations.

Lyrically and thematically, BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER navigates the fractured borderlands between the physical and the metaphysical - where inner turmoil mirrors societal collapse, and spiritual decay reflects in ecological ruin. The band delves into abstract concepts - identity dissolution, entropy, liminality, and psychic fragmentation - yet these themes often echo real-world anxieties and existential dread.

Blood Brain Barrier isn’t just a band - it’s a descent, a meditation, a confrontation with the void. In their music, catharsis is both a weapon and a wound.