PYROCLAST

                                                                                            Title:Fractured State

                                                                                            Label:Independent

                                                                                            Release Date: 4th September 2026

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"Fractured State" is heavy metal  with teeth, claws, and a brain full of mythology, psychology, and human collapse

PYROCLAST don’t just write songs they write stories that stalk and haunt you!

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The opener, the bands name funnily enough "Pyroclast" is a volcanic punch to the sternum. Double‑kick fury, riffs that feel like tectonic plates grinding, and a chorus that rises like molten rock. My personal favourite "Slaughterhouse" We get Three minutes fifty of pure, merciless sprinting. It’s a murder story, but not the one you expect it’s about deception, masks, and the horror hiding behind a smile. Short, sharp, savage.

Defiance wrapped in melody the moment where the album stops screaming and starts staring you down as "Break The Tide" washes over you .

A crushing groove that feels like standing chest deep in a storm surge.

Every riff feels like a command you didn’t agree to follow as "Prisoner Game" rocks up as we explore The Stanford Prison Experiment turned into a metal track but smarter, darker, more human.

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Theres a fire in your soul as "Brought By Flame" delivers a wildfire of emotions as we delve into memory, ambition, and the cost of progress.  The next track sees PYROCLAST at their most cinematic: A journey into forgotten worlds, driven not by fantasy but by human stubbornness and hope as "Beneath the Beyond" weaves its magic.  Ah Shelley's poem is reborn with "Ozymandias" A slow, regal collapse  empires crumbling, pride dissolving, monuments swallowed by time. It’s heavy metal archaeology, digging through the ruins of ego.​

The nine‑minute epic "Erebus and Terror" brings this fine opus to it end. Its a  tribute to the doomed Franklin Expedition not sensationalised, not romanticised, but humanised. It shifts perspectives, builds tension, and ends with a quiet acoustic farewell that hits harder than any scream.

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"Fractured State" is a cracking album , furious, thoughtful, mythic, and unafraid to dig into the darkest corners of history and the human mind. It’s heavy metal with a writers brain and a fighter’s heart. Every track stands alone, but together they form a mosaic of pressure, consequence, and transformation

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Review:Seb Di Gatto     Score: 8.5/10

Reviewed: 14/08/2026

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Tracks:

1.Pyroclast

2.Slaughterhouse

3.Break the Tide

4.Prisoner Game​

5.Brought By Flame 

6.Beneath the Beyond

7.Ozymandias

8.Erebus and Terror

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Band:

Mark Reid Baz Fitzsimmons

Chris Horne

Liam Barrie

Mark Riches

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