Metal
Relapse Records · 13 November 2026
Temple of Bones make their Relapse Records debut with “Walk The Winds”, six tracks and around twenty-two minutes, out on 13 November digitally, on CD and on vinyl. Singer Scott Ruth and drummer Brandon Thomas both come from Ripping Corpse, the band behind “Dreaming With the Dead” (1991), and from Dim Mak. They’re joined by bassist Dennis Carroll, of Torture Krypt and also Dim Mak, and guitarist Mike Schweigert, of Lord Sterling and Full Speed Ahead.
According to Schweigert, it all started with a handful of riffs: “A couple years back I started coming up with some riffs and I really wanted to hammer them out with a drummer. So I sent Brandon a text asking if he’d want to work on them…” They then realised they needed a bassist and a singer, and with Carroll and Ruth on board the band came together. The lead single was “Black Horizon”; the other tracks are “Sky Is Like Ocean”, “Walk The Winds”, “Locust Thorns”, “Lowly Demon” and “Cut With Rusty Saws”.
Monster Magnet guitarist Phil Caivano produced it with the band. It was recorded with Joe DeMaio at Shorefire Recording Studios, with Caivano tracking vocals and additional guitars at his Studio 13; Bob Pantella mixed it at Freakshop Studios and John McBain mastered it. The cover art is by Timothy Hoyer.
Text by Roger Estivill