CELESTIAL SANCTUARY - Puddles of You Reflect the Filth Within

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"Puddles of You Reflect the Filth Within" from the "Visions of Stagnant Blood" EP.

Filmed & Edited by Kiefer Passey
Camera operators - Jordan Noon & Steph Evans

"Live music videos, in my opinion are the best music videos. No matter the band - it really gives you a sense of what you’re in for when it comes to the most important aspect of metal… the live show.

"We’d done a more DIY one before, collecting footage people shot on their phones at shows. But we’d come a very long way and our confidence has grown massively and we had a bunch of important shows coming up, so knew we wanted to capture the insanity and brutality of our live experience.

"I’d met Kiefer at a Cattle Decapitation & 200 Stab Wounds show and we bonded over our mutual love of sick music videos, and I knew straight away we needed to work together - we had a tour with Incantation lined up, as well as Download Fesrival and a main support slot with Kerry King, all within a few weeks of each other, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to capture us in 3 different environments - The Underworld, a skanky sweatbox where the air con never works. Our favourite venue in the world. download festival - the biggest rock and metal fest in the U.K. and The Electric Ballroom - a big venue in London where we knew we were stepping into the next level of the band.

"For us - it’s not about staging a live show with just our fans. In our mind - these shows were going to be a real test for us and a step up onto a bigger stage… literally and figuratively. And it demonstrates that we can disrupt, cause chaos and violence wherever we go… be it 11am at a huge festival playing to people who’ve never heard us, supporting one of the most important groups of people in Metal (KK, Bostaph, Demmel etc) who’s fans probably had no expectations of the opening band, and of course sharing a stage with titans of death metal who we admire dearly."

Forged in 2019, CELESTIAL SANCTUARY burst onto the scene with their brutal blend of death metal pulling influence from the likes of Carcass, Dying Fetus, and Cannibal Corpse and injecting their own fetid flavor into the genre.

CELESTIAL SANCTUARY released their sophomore album, "Insatiable Thirst For Torment," on Church Road Records in August of 2023. Hailed by fans and critics alike, Distorted Sound awarded the band a 10/10 rating noting, "CELESTIAL SANCTUARY have absolutely nailed their second album release. For fans of death metal, there is a little element of everything neatly tied together and delivered with precision." Blabbermouth wrote, "Here we have a band with everything going for them. Insatiable Thirst For Torment is old-school death metal, fully rejuvenated, right down to James Bousema's magnificent cover art. Up there with the best that the genre has to offer in 2023, CELESTIAL SANCTUARY have birthed a monster." Kerrang gushed, "Death metal is meant to be disgusting. Brit sickos Celestial Sanctuary understand this better than most." Added Everything Is Noise, "Insatiable Thirst For Torment is an impressive gorepile of fuck, a rancid and bloodied foreskin tapestry, a fetid bloat of liquified unlife. It's one of those DOOM levels with the fleshy, living walls that make you feel uneasy before bisecting demons with the Super Shotgun. What I'm trying to say is, it's fun as hell… This band deserves all the love they get, and then some."

Comments the band on their signing, "We are chuffed to bits and extremely proud to have signed with Metal Blade Records. All of us have grown up listening to CDs and records that brandish the mark of The Blade, so to be a part of that history and stand on a roster alongside the best artists in the world of metal is an honor that isn't lost on us. We're well into the writing process for our next album, and having the backing of Metal Blade is inspiring us to write our most brutal, unhinged, and best shit yet. See you fucks on the road!"
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