Philadelphia’s Caged will debut the bands full length release ‘From Roving About The Earth’ on September 29, 2023 via Translation Loss Records. The album shows the band intertwining pitch-black sludge, tortured and charred vocals alongside cavernous and excruciating grooves. This five song release offers something similar to what you might hear if the pits of hell opened up and spewed its reign of chaos on earth. Each track is laced with nightmarishly anxious sounds of savage distortion and experimental noise. Chaos is met with moments of meditative heaviness that force the listener up for air only to be dragged back down to hell once again.

Today, the band have unleashed the album in full, ahead of its official release date. The album is streaming at Invisible Oranges.

About the release of ‘From Roving About The Earth,’ Caged vocalist John Jones shares:

“Musically, I feel we started to really come into our own as a unit with ‘From Roving About the Earth’. With our EP, ‘Stricken by Continuance’, some of those songs were remnants of songs from Ryan (Manly – guitar) and I’s old band, Black Urn, where those tracks were too dark/slow for that band at the time. With our debut album, we got to dive into our original ideas and visions further – doom, death, and experimenting. Challenging ourselves while being in the pocket with our process. This is also the first release where our noise guy Joe was with the band from the ground up of the writing process of the album, whereas with the EP he joined the band and contributed once that record was tracked. He was with us side-by-side while we were writing, matching our ideas with samples and noise from places not normally pulled from with instruments not typically used for doom bands. And with our guitarist Ryan who writes the bulk of the material, he really dove into his role as tone-scientist, laying the groundwork for our debut.”

LISTEN TO THE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT INVISIBLE ORANGES HERE

Caged will release “From Roving About The Earth” on September 29, 2023 (digital) via Translation Loss Records. Physical vinyl variants will be released November 3, 2023 via Translation Loss Records and cassettes will be released via Knife Hits Records. 

Album artwork by Mark McCoy.
Promo photos by Katt Wilkins.