Obsolete Mankind

Influenced by early New York death metal, and accentuated by grooving grindcore rhythms, Montréal’s OBSOLETE MANKIND serves up its first full length studio album, entitled “False Awakening”, and is ready to unleash guttural depravity upon the world. In a world of illusory delusion, where post-industrialism meets the waters of humanity’s discontents and failures, “False Awakening” is the first chapter of potentially many brutal death metal tales of mankind’s soulful desires colliding with its catastrophic whims. All lifelong friends, this is far from this heavy-hitting quintet’s first venture into the professional metal arena. OBSOLETE MANKIND is made up of former NEURAXIS bassist Yan Thiel, and is fronted by vocalist Marie-Hélène Landry, notably of early DESPISED ICON acclaim, and also of Quebec death metal act BORBORYGME. Newly signed to Dark Descent Records, PHOBOCOSM shares drummer Jean-Sébastien Gagnon, as well as Samuel Dufour on guitar. The role of bassist is filled by former PAROXYSM. Jean-Philippe Sigouin, The idea for OBSOLETE MANKIND came about rather organically through casual discussions in August 2011, when the fivesome were mainly in between projects and curious how a collaboration might turn out between good friends with a similar passion for 90s death metal. The quintet decided to turn their ideas into jam sessions in November of the same year. After a successful bout of Montreal support shows for respective acclaimed touring acts DEHUMANIZED, INTERNAL BLEEDING, NERVOUS IMPULSE, BEYOND CREATION and MALIGNANCY, OBSOLETE MANKIND headlined its own Québec shows in the metropolises of Sherbrooke, Rouyn-Noranda, Gatineau, Trois-Rivières and Québec city. The band also appeared on notable festivals such as OBSCENE EXTREME AMERICA, GRIND YOUR MIND OPEN AIR AND QCDM festival “False Awakening” was mastered at FUCK THE FACTS guitarist Topon Das’ Apartment 2 Recording in Ottawa, Ontario. The album was mixed by Xavier Berthiaume in Studio Tehom in Montréal, where recording of guitars and bass also got accomplished in due course. Vocals were recorded at Montréal's Goruna Projects by owner-operator Mat Sclasss. Upon drum recording, album artwork was completed by esteemed graphic designer Filipe Quinzanos, who is well-known for his graphic work on HEAVEN’S CRY’s 2012 album cover, “Wheels of Impermanence”. FALSE AWAKENING caught the attention of Mathieu Tremblay, founder of Quebec city label unleash the undergroud, who released the album in April 2015. At present time, the band continue to play shows, with intent to potentially make festival appearance Death Metal from Montreal