With their new album, The New Torment, Contracult feels they have reached their full potential since their formation in 2020. The record, released on November 4th through their own Hogwasche Music label, is their first since parting ways with their previous label Roadrunner Records. This album was made more on the own terms of the band members, without any obvious or implied pressure coming from higher-ups at a successful record label. Frontman and founder Travis Bacon, aka Svart, feels that what differentiates The New Torment from previous releases is that the band had the freedom to write songs in new and different ways rather than feeling constrained by old-fashioned writing formulas. The rule book was thrown down the well, in favour of a more organic sound, with each song having its fl...