NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – July 8, 2026
Album Download HERE (for media use only)
CONFLUX COLLECTIVE Unleashes A Ferocious Prog Death Odyssey w/ “The Antidote” from New Album “In the Wake of Saturn”
(ft. members of ex-Augury, ex‑Decrepit Birth, Derelict, Gross Misconduct, Continuum and more!)
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L-R – Max Lussier, Jesse Brint, Mallika Sundaramurthy, Tommy McKinnon, Eric Burnet, Jeffrey Mott
PHOTOGRAPHER CREDITS: Joe Diaz, Derek Carr of Visionsinpixels, Mat Barbeau, Tania Hébert
Montreal’s progressive death‑metal collective Conflux Collective has unleashed the official lyric video for “The Antidote,” premiering now on The Circle Pit. Serving as the opening track to their newly released full‑length album “In The Wake of Saturn”, the single delivers a ferocious blend of brutal technicality, melodic tension, and uncompromising intensity.
“The Antidote” showcases some of the most demanding drum work of drummer‑composer Tommy McKinnon’s career, paired with guitarist Chase Fraser’s signature brutal‑progressive riffing. Vocalist Eric Burnet (Derelict) brings the lyrics to life with a visceral performance that captures the song’s core message: resisting complacency in a world where ignorance thrives, and discipline is the true antidote.
Watch and listen to the lyric video for “The Antidote” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHR0TOQtcI
Released on June 19, 2026, “In The Wake of Saturn” marks the long‑awaited return of Conflux Collective after years of dormancy. The album is a multidimensional journey through pain, fear, defeat, survival, and rebirth, an extreme‑metal odyssey forged through perseverance and sheer will.
Musically, the record merges the raw ferocity of ’90s death metal with the precision and ambition of modern tech‑death. Across eight tracks, listeners are pulled through blast‑driven chaos, atmospheric tension, crushing grooves, and climactic melodic peaks. Lyrically, the album explores deeply personal themes: loss, addiction, ecological collapse, self‑reinvention, and existential transformation. The record also features a diverse roster of vocalists with Jesse Brint (Gross Misconduct), Mallika Sundaramurthy (Emasculator, ex‑Abnormality), Jeffrey Mott (The Monster Factory, Growlers Choir), Eric Burnet (Derelict, Samskaras), and Max (Derelict), who also contributes a blistering guitar solo
Conflux Collective was born from a chance reunion in a Montreal fast‑food joint after a King Diamond concert. Guitarist Chase Fraser (Continuum, ex‑Decrepit Birth, ex‑Animosity) and drummer Tommy McKinnon (Derelict, Akurion, ex‑Neuraxis, ex‑Augury) discovered they had once shared a stage years earlier in San Francisco. A spontaneous jam session soon followed, and within an hour, a full song had taken shape. Within six weeks, they had written and recorded their debut EP, “The Inception” (2016).
From the beginning, Conflux Collective was envisioned as a true assembly, a project built on collaboration, diversity, and the fusion of multiple extreme‑vocal styles. After years of setbacks, McKinnon resurrected the project, reconstructing the album from archived material, writing new songs, recording all bass tracks, and assembling a lineup of powerhouse vocalists.
The result is a unique, uncompromising, and emotionally charged extreme‑metal record, one that stands apart through its honesty, ambition, and collaborative spirit.
Conflux Collective currently has no plans for live performances, remaining a studio‑driven project focused on pushing creative boundaries.
Recommended for fans of Cryptopsy, Necrophagist, Decrepit Birth, Augury, and Beyond Creation, “In the Wake of Saturn” will be available at the following links:
Album pre-save – https://confluxcollective.bandcamp.com/
Vinyl and CD order – https://elasticstage.com/confluxcollective
Merch / Apparel available – https://confluxco-shop.fourthwall.com/
Lyric Video – Reincarnation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nce0-kz3nTk
Lyric Video – Devouring Light – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYaLYoVjX8
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Track Listing:
1. The Antidote – 3:02
2. Devoid of True Form – 2:39
3. Ethereal Executioner – 4:45
4. Devouring Light – 4:59
5. Blood from a Rock 4:18
6. Reincarnation – 3:20
7. In the Wake of Saturn – 2:29
8. Desperate Post-Humanist – 5:18
Album Length: 30:53
Album Band Line-up:
Guitar: Chase Fraser (Continuum)
Vocals: Eric Burnet (Derelict), Max Lussier (Derelict), Jesse Brint (Gross Misconduct), Mallika Sundaramurthy (Emasculator), Jeff Mott (Hollow, Monster Factory)
Additional guitar, bass, and drums: Tommy McKinnon
Track 1,2, 3, 6. Music: Chase Fraser. Lyrics: Tommy McKinnon
Track 4. Music: Chase Fraser. Lyrics: Jesse Brint
Track 5, 7. Music & Lyrics: Tommy McKinnon
Track 8. Music: Tommy McKinnon. Lyrics: Eric Burnet
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/confluxcollective
https://www.instagram.com/confluxco/
About: Formed in Montreal after a chance post‑show encounter, The Conflux Collective is a progressive technical death‑metal project built on collaboration, experimentation, and emotional depth. Featuring contributions from some of the genre’s most distinctive vocalists, the band blends the ferocity of old‑school death metal with the precision and ambition of modern tech‑death. In the Wake of Saturn marks their first full‑length album.
Album Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Conflux Collective
• All songs written by: Conflux Collective
• Produced by: Tommy McKinnon
• Mixed by: Jeanne Comateuse at Magma Art & Sound
• Mastered by: Jeanne Comateuse at Magma Art & Sound
• Album Artwork by: Filip Ivanovic
• Member of SOCAN
Affiliated links:
Mix engineer: https://magma-sound.com
Derelict: https://derelictmetal.bandcamp.com
Akurion: https://akurion-ca.bandcamp.com/album…
Emasculator: https://www.instagram.com/emasculator_bdm
Mallika: https://www.instagram.com/mallika_sun
Gross Misconduct: https://grossmisconduct.bandcamp.com
The Monster Factory: https://www.themonster-factory.com/en
Coma Cluster Void: https://comaclustervoid.com
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“The song’s (Devouring Light) opening moments create tension and are viscerally frightening. They combine wrenching howls, swaths of eerily ringing guitar, immense groaning bass tones, and methodically bludgeoning beats. As the growled words (also frightening) cut loose, the tension doesn’t really break but the music morphs. The dissonant notes miserably writhe and dart away in strange angles; the drums variably clatter and slug in ways that both exacerbate the music’s feeling of dementia and create a vivid rhythmic counterpoint to the increasingly hallucinatory effect of the fretwork. A shrill and swirling guitar solo rises up, creating its own kind of ecstatic counterpoint to the music’s chilling manifestations of confusion and despair. Yet those very same melodic motifs that make the music so unsettling also turn out to be hooks: as they surface and re-surface, strangely ringing and warping, they dig in — as the bass-and-drum performances continue landing body blows while creating their own mystifying attractions. Although this song, unlike the album’s first single, isn’t a high-speed cavalcade of technically eye-popping adventurousness, it’s still a technically impressive exercise, one that deploys the musician’s technical skills to create chilling hallucinatory effects.” – No Clean Singing
“Centered around guitarist Chase Fraser (Continuum, ex‑Decrepit Birth, ex‑Animosity) and drummer Tommy McKinnon (Derelict, Akurion, ex‑Neuraxis, ex‑Augury) and featuring guest appearance contributions from members of Gross Misconduct, Emasculator, Samskaras, Hollow and Monster Factory, the Conflux Collective is a true collective that puts ’90s lensed, technical death metal in its creative crosshairs.” – Decibel Magazine – Track Premiere: Getting Cosmic with The Conflux Collective’s “In the Wake of Saturn”
“Canada’s Conflux Collective return with IN THE WAKE OF SATURN – 8 crazed pieces of death metal infused with manic energy, prog and tech metal complexity and loaded with mean aggression! Totally insane!” – Loud Enough Magazine
“This release sits far outside ordinary death metal territory, travelling through unknown and uncharted musical ground. Structurally, the songs do not follow the traditional verse-bridge-chorus form. That same refusal is emphatic in the lyrics, which follow no fixed pattern and take a far more narrative shape, moving closely alongside musical sections that stubbornly break free of conventional forms. The intensely personal lyrics gain even more weight through the voices of Max, Jeffrey, Jesse, Mallika and Eric, whose performances add further emotional gravity to this narrative journey. The final result is a rough-hewn creation that defies familiar musical patterns and lyrical norms. It is indifferent to the world outside and makes that clear in every possible way. Yet, almost by accident, it points the way forward, leaving a wholly personal imprint for those who follow. 10/10” – Metal Ourgio
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