Earlier this month, Denver death metal three-piece Glacial Tomb returned with their new album, Lightless Expanse. Combining in-depth themes of mental illness and philosophical pessimism (inspired heavily by True Detective muses Thomas Ligotti and Peter Wessel Zapffe) with multi-layered melodicism and catastrophically heavy death-doom songwriting, the band, inspired by new bassist David Small, have created an unflinching examination of the horrors of existence, captured with authenticity and meticulous attention to detail. For this latest interview, V13 sat down with guitarist/vocalist Ben Hutcherson to discuss influential philosophers, the new album, and how Hutcherson found his role in producing the album. You describe yourselves as sludge-corrupted death metal; how would you explain your...