12/12/2025
BYGONE’s space travel debut album out today via Svart Records
⚫️ Boston based heavy metal act Bygone’s debut album is here to soundtrack your cosmic explorations of an imagined past. Filled with Mainline Riders, Air Dancers, and Psychic Warriors, you could call it hard rock or heavy metal, but the album is probably closest to Métal Hurlant. This is hardly the first slab of molten black and silver forged by the members of the band, who have previously traveled the Iommic byways of configurations like Magic Circle, Blazon Rite, Concilium, Witchtrial, and Missionary Work. Here, they join together to forge new routes through the whirlpool where matter vanishes.
Through the album, the group journeys out-of-body with cuts like Lightspeed Nights, Into the Gleam, and Take Me Home drifting through degenerate stars and iron suns. Hear throughout taut Pete Way-inspired underpinnings, keyboard flourishes reminiscent of Don Airy’s late ’70s work, and vocals that recall the emotion and grit of Buffalo’s Dave Tice. Bygone is an infinite cosmos in a 12” jacket, a heavy metal that feels not so much of the historical past as it does the never-quite-was.
