We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Face the Truth

by X.KERNEL

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $5 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    4-panel digipak with 12-page booklet.
    Limited to 500.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Face the Truth via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 14 days
    edition of 500 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD or more 

     

  • T-Shirt/Apparel

    Fruit of the Loom and Rockaway t-shirts with colorful front print and big X.Kernel logo on the back.
    ships out within 30 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • 10 x 10 cm
    ships out within 71 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10 USD or more 

     

1.
Intro 01:07
2.
Exhausted 04:15
3.
4.
5.
In the Void 04:28
6.
Dying Gods 03:51
7.
Stay Alive 04:16
8.
The Last War 04:13
9.
Interludium 01:19
To pause there would be to confirm the hopeless finality of a belief that two atomic colossi are doomed malevolently to eye each other indefinitely across a trembling world. To stop there would be to accept helplessly the probability of civilization destroyed, the annihilation of the irreplaceable heritage of mankind handed down to us from generation to generation, and the condemnation of mankind to begin all over again the age-old struggle upward from savagery towards decency, and right, and justice. Surely no sane member of the human race could discover victory in such desolation. Could anyone wish his name to be coupled by history with such human degradation and destruction?Occasional pages of history do record the faces of the "great destroyers", but the whole book of history reveals mankind's never-ending quest for peace and mankind's God-given capacity to build.
10.
No Fate 03:54
11.
Dream of Sun 04:13

about

‘Face the Truth’ is X.Kernel’s debut long-play, telling stories of mental and social diseases able to break and tear apart any single individual as well as the humanity as a whole.
It is symbolically divided to two parts.
The first part is ‘personal’, telling about fatigue and devastation leading a soul to madness. Starting from full soul's exhaustion, twisted mind is brought through pain to absolute emptiness, indistinguishable from mental death.
The second, ‘martial’ part is dedicated to mankind’s fight with extraneous forces for ghostly future and survival. Soul, passed through fire and death, faces no fate and can't find rest even in the grave.

The quality of Face The Truth was recognised by US label Cimmerian Shade Recordings who were quick to welcome X.Kernel to their roster. Now, on April 7th, the rest of the world will be able to hear the results of this metallic alliance. X.Kernel have combined a mastery of established forms with a fresh and expansive outlook, married depth and emotion to technical skill and forged an album that will capture hearts, minds and souls with its arrival on the field of battle.

"Techy grooving melodic death metal. Keyboard stuff, cool guitars, growly vox. Catchy and proggy too." WORT-FM Mosh Pit

"It’s a bumpy adventure that is full of twists and turns and although mostly smooth does contain a few cobbles along the way that throw you into the path of an oncoming train!" 9.5/10 paganhelrevies.blogspot.com

credits

released April 7, 2017

X.Kernel:
Nikita Larionov - guitar, back vocals
Alina Borodkina - keys
Oleksandr Malezhyk - bass

Guest Members:
Andrii Tkachenko - vocals

Special thanks to: Dmytro Kruhlyk - drums

Arrangements by Nikita Larionov
Music, Lyrics by X.Kernel
Mixed and mastered by Anton Vorozhtsov at TA Production, Ukraine
Artwork by Iurii Tass
Booklet design by Stanislav Govorukha
Photography by Andriy Korotych
Logo designed by Dmytro Iurchenko (Di-Studio)

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

X.KERNEL Kiev, Ukraine

X.Kernel is modern metal band from Kyiv. Once switched from power metal, we started to play melodic death influenced heavily by Gothenburg MDM scene.
Inspired by vagueness of border between physical and virtual realities, we tell stories of mental and social diseases breaking apart both person and the whole humanity.
... more

contact / help

Contact X.KERNEL

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like X.KERNEL, you may also like: