Philippines’ POLYMERASE Explores Transcendence And Spiritual Awakening with New Album ‘Mindspace’!

The Metallist PR
Jun 25
2 min read

Philippines-based psychedelic doom metal band POLYMERASE has released its new full-length Mindspace on May 14th. The album, available digitally via POT Arrow Records, will make fans of Elder, Sleep, Om, Isis, Russian Circles and Hawkwind excited!

Order the album on Bandcamp: https://tinyurl.com/2d92epxk

The making of Mindspace began in late 2023 and was just completed this year. It all started when Vincent Jose, the band’s main creative force, began coming up with riffs that sounded quite different from their previous album. From the beginning, the band knew this project would require a new kind of sound, something more layered, deeper, and bigger.

Mindspace explores themes like transcendence, altered states of mind, and spiritual awakening. It’s about pushing past physical limits, confronting inner struggles, and hopefully discovering a deeper potential. The album’s sound is rooted in stoner rock but also blends influences from krautrock, doom, sludge, and post-metal. The result is heavy, spacey, and meditative music meant to stretch and fill the listener’s mind.

Mindspace tracklist:

1. 93 Billion Light Years

2. Divine Reefer

3. Incense For The Beast

4. Space Child

5. Crows And Doves

6. Cosmic Wanderlust

7. Interplanetary Echoes

8. Downward Spiral

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Vincent Jose, logo by Vincent Jose. Artwork by Vincent Jose and Ilham Maulana. Photo by Berbong Pitik.

Drums on Space Child, Cosmic Wanderlust, Interplanetery Echoes, and Downward Spiral were recorded by Francis Ilagan in the UK, Bass on Cosmic Wanderlust were recorded by Allan Galiga in Pasig City, Philippines, Vox/ Guitars / Bass/ Drums on the rest of the tracks were recorded by Vincent Jose; The tracks were mixed and mastered at POT Arrow Records/Studio in Quezon City, Philippines.