Release Date July 17th, 2026
Format Digital
Genre Metalcore
Origin United States
Under Auburn Skies emerged from Denver, Colorado, bringing together Sebastian Gorklo on vocals, Oscar Morales and Zach Morgan on guitars, Jose Morales on bass, and Martin Pasillas on drums. The band introduced itself through “Afterimage” in 2018, returned with “Depths Of Me” in 2019, then issued “Invention Of Reason” in 2021. That release history established a mixture of low tuned metalcore riffing, elevated guitar melody, and emotionally bruised writing, placing the band inside the modern melodic end of the style.
Onstage, Under Auburn Skies built experience through Denver area dates, Thank You Fest V, hometown headliners, and support slots for international touring bands across metalcore, deathcore, progressive metal, and melodic death metal. Denver remained central to that activity, with local festival billing and a hometown release show surrounding the new EP. Those years matter here because “Diminisher Of Hope” arrives as the band’s first multi song release in five years and documents a lineup with extensive live mileage, even if its studio output has remained relatively small. With this EP, the band moves from the reflective title of “Invention Of Reason” toward images of despair, burial, emotional ruin, and hope stripped away.
“Diminisher Of Hope” contains six songs, pressing low tuned riffs, rapid drum work, rising guitar melodies, breakdowns, urgent vocals, and melodic hooks into a compact metalcore release. Nick Nordurft tracked the drums at Rusty Sun Audio, Emilio Lujan handled guitars and bass, and Jaxon Stunden handled vocals plus additional guitars; Chris Wiseman completed the mix and master. That division of work produces an aggressive mix led by kick drum, snare, rhythm guitar, and layered vocals, with melodic leads placed high enough to separate choruses from the chugging.
Depression, abandonment, damaged intimacy, social division, resentment, and self blame dominate the lyrics, and the language is often blunt enough to communicate distress without burying it beneath metaphor; most lines remain in the first person, adding immediacy while narrowing the emotional palette. Rising melody across the chugging and changes in vocal intensity break the EP’s steady downward pull, briefly loosening arrangements built around similar breakdown mechanics.
Several breakdown cues and riff shapes arrive on schedule, making some turns predictable and leaving the six songs closer to one another than their themes suggest. At around nineteen minutes, the narrow range does not become tedious, though the EP ends before any broader dynamic arc can develop. The result is respectable and competently made; broader variation in riffs, pacing, and vocal arrangement would have moved it above the genre’s busy middle tier.
|6.5
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