Release Date July 24th, 2026
Format CD/12” Vinyl
Genre Death/Doom Metal
Origin Australia
Reekmind formed in Sydney in 2024 around vocalist Dane Ottesen and guitarist Nick Cruz, later joined by bassist Lem and drummer Brayden. The band emerged from the Australian underground with a mix of death metal, doom and sludge, shaped through low tuning, extended compositions and themes of grief, death and bodily decay. Debut album "Mired In The Reek Of Grief" arrived in March 2025 through Night Terrors Records, with Memento Mori Records handling the CD edition. Its five compositions introduced a suffocating style built around drawn out riffs, cavernous vocals and sudden
changes in pace. Ned has since replaced Brayden on drums, completing the lineup heard on "Glints From The Crematorium". Reekmind’s history is brief, though the amount of material issued since 2024 shows an active band developing its sound at an unusually fast rate.
Daniel Butler is an American death metal vocalist with years of activity across several underground bands. His deep register and diseased vocal character add another layer of anguish to "Flesh Draped On A Pitiful Frame". The physical edition also includes "Rehearsal In A Body Of Death", captured live at Black Lodge Studios and excluded from the digital release.
Sessions took place at Black Lodge Studios during August and October 2025, with Lewis Noke Edwards handling the tracking and mixing before Dan Lowndes completed the mastering at Resonance Sound Studios. The production retains a raw, organic surface, leaving the guitars broad and suffocating while the bass churns beneath them and the drums strike in blunt, heavy bursts.
Tempo changes arrive more often than on the debut, moving from drawn out doom into faster death metal attacks with little warning, and the experimental textures give the transitions an uneasy, unstable character. Dane’s vocals remain buried deep in the mix, sounding less like a frontman leading the music and more like another source of decay inside it. The lyrics deal with accumulated trauma, physical deterioration and minds collapsing under their own damage, using cysts, rotting flesh and ruined bodies as literal images for psychological decline.
That imagery is effective, although the emotional register remains narrow, causing similar lyrical ideas to merge across the EP. The faster material breaks the prolonged crawl and adds urgency, while the slower sections retain the oppressive dread that defined the debut. "Glints From The Crematorium" is compact, bleak and merciless, extending Reekmind’s death-doom into darker territory through stronger contrasts, tighter movement and a far more hostile atmosphere.
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