"Tribal Gaze are the absolute real deal.” - New Noise Magazine
"one of the best metal bands in North Texas” - Dallas Observer
“death metal that sounds like it’ll give you back sweat” - Revolver
Following their recent signing with Nuclear Blast Records, Texas death horde TRIBAL GAZE has announced their 2nd full-length album, Inveighing Brilliance, will be released on October 17th. Injecting a heavy dose of scorching old school death metal straight into the veins of the modern metal scene, TRIBAL GAZE hold nothing back on their massively anticipated followup to 2022’s highly praised The Nine Choirs
Today, the band has unleashed their furious first single, ‘Beyond Recognition,’ with an intense video directed by David Brodsky (CATTLE DECAPITATION, CANNIBAL CORPSE).<
Commenting on the impending record and new single, guitarist Quintin Stauts< says:
“I think this album, like our others, is us trying to create memorable parts in songs. Parts that make you have to rewind and hear it again. The aim is always to make songs that we love listening to. We’re just trying to add something of value to the death metal world. Our single Beyond Recognition is a good representation of where we’re at mentally. Pissed during the fast parts, pissed during the slow parts.
TRIBAL GAZE will tour North America in support of Inveighing Brilliance this fall, sharing the stage with THE ACACIA STRAIN, CATTLE DECAPITATION, ABORTED, FROZEN SOUL and more. Tickets are available HERE
Beyond Recognitionhttps://tribalgaze.bfan.link/beyond-recognition
Pre-OrderInveighing Brilliance: https://tribalgaze.bfan.link/inveighing-brilliance
“BEYOND RECOGNITION” MUSIC VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJXgpJwIBUY
Inveighing Brilliance Tracklist:
1. Smiling From Their Chariots
2. Beyond Recognition
3. Emptying the Nest
4. Guarding the Illusion
5. To the Spoils of Faith
6. Ruling in a Land with No God
7. The Irreversible Sequence
8. Inveighing Brilliance
9. Draped in Piercing Radiance
10. Lord of Blasphemy
About TRIBAL GAZE:
Arising from the scorched earth of Texas, Tribal Gaze return with “Inveighing Brilliance”, a death metal monolith shaped by ancient violence and unforgiving truth. Recently signed to Nuclear Blast Records, the band conjures visions of primal wrath and nihilistic clarity—a sound rooted in the rawness of old-school death metal but sharpened with modern intent. From their name, inspired by unseen forces watching from deep forests, to the crushing weight of their riffs, Tribal Gaze channels something ancient, unknown, and violently present.
“Inveighing Brilliance” is a meditation on the illusion of beauty in nature and existence, and how it pertains to both Mother Nature, and our wretched, human society. Even in moments of light, brutality lurks—eggs are stolen from nests, flesh is torn for survival. This album dissects this duality, revealing the suffering embedded in every living moment. With digital artwork by Dom Pabon (Final Resting Place) that evokes sci-fi decay and meditations of ancient ruin, the album looks and sounds like a lost realm where reality fractures under the pressure of its own contradictions.
Tracks like “Beyond Recognition” and “To the Spoils of Faith” expand on these apocalyptic themes. The former imagines an outside force annihilating humanity in judgment of its arrogance, built on some of the band’s most punishing riffs to date—swinging between chaos, groove, and sheer obliteration. The latter churns with mechanized fury and contempt for blind belief, echoing Meshuggah-like timing with lyrics that drag faith to its own ironic hell. Across the record, Tribal Gaze capture the violence of thought and sound in equal measure—uncompromising and vividly self-aware.
Their ascent to Nuclear Blast was anything but formulaic. After leveling stages on tour with Frozen Soul, the band caught the attention of legendary A&R Monte Conner, who waited outside a venue in New York just to share his admiration. That moment solidified a new chapter for Tribal Gaze—a label that values creative freedom and pushes bands to expand without dilution. With “Inveighing Brilliance”, they’ve done just that: stripped away illusion, stared into the abyss, and made it echo.
