Metal
Profound Lore Records · 13 November 2026
Profound Lore Records puts out “Antillia” today, 13 November. It’s Artificial Brain’s fourth LP and the first since the band, after a spell as a six-piece international collective, has been based in Richmond, Virginia. The move brought both new members: singer Mike Paparo, of Inter Arma, and drummer Alex Tomlin, of Battlemaster. Founders Dan Gargiulo on guitar and Samuel Smith on bass complete the line-up alongside guitarist Oleg Zalman. The previous album, the self-titled “Artificial Brain”, came out on 3 June 2022.
According to the album’s notes, the nine tales revolve around invasion and contamination: diseases falling from the sky, poisoned water and soil, medical nanobots triggering plagues and alien agents undermining Earth’s governments. It runs from “The Wandering Star Prion” to “Antillia (In Chromatic Aberration)” across nine tracks and around forty-two minutes, and the same notes call it the band’s shortest album.
Dan-O Deckelman recorded the drums and additional guitars at Sound of Music Studios; Gargiulo and Ian Jacyszyn recorded guitars and bass, and David Waltenbaugh the vocals. Jacyszyn mixed it and Colin Marston mastered it at The Thousand Caves. Guest vocalists are Doug Moore on the opener, Paulo Paguntalan on tracks two and seven and Andrea Collaro on “Planet: Carrion”; Kevin Hufnagel plays a guest solo on “Deciphering the Anachronistic Tongues of the Relic Satellites”, which opens with an intro by Ryan Parrish. The cover art is by Fleshflies.
Text by Roger Estivill