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Vale of Pnath

Denver, Colorado's Vale of Pnath is named after a vast bone-strewn region of H.P. Lovecraft's underworld. Emerging in the late 2000s, the band serves up a lethal cocktail of blackened technical death metal with hints of melody and dark, symphonic grandeur, as heard on caustic and uncompromising studio albums like 2011's Prodigal Empire, 2019's Accursed, and 2024's Between the Worlds of Life and Death. Founded in 2006 by guitarist Vance Valenzuela, bassist Alan Paredes, drummer Jeremy Portz, and vocalist David Lercher, the band added virtuosic six-stringer Mikey Reeves-Juarez to the lineup ahead of the release of their debut EP. The four-song set caught the attention of Tribunal Records, which reissued the eponymous release in 2009. Ken Sarafin replaced Lercher on vocals shortly after that and made his studio debut on 2011's Prodigal Empire, the group's first full-length effort and maiden outing for Willowtip Records. Vale of Pnath toured relentlessly to support the record, building a loyal fan base and rising to the fore of the tech-death scene. A flurry of personnel changes preceded the arrival of the group's sophomore long-player, the aptly named II, which marked the debuts of guitarist Eloy Montes and vocalist Reece Deeter. With 2019's Accursed and 2024's Between the Worlds of Life and Death, the band added more black and symphonic metal elements to their sonic oeuvre, eliciting comparisons to world-building extreme metal forebearers like Dimmu Borgir, Vader, and Emperor.
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