NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – June 18, 2026
Streaming Now! Canadian Prog Death CONFLUX COLLECTIVE’s 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
After years of dormancy, reinvention, and sheer determination, Conflux Collective unleashes its long‑anticipated debut full‑length album, “In the Wake of Saturn”, available digitally and on CD and Vinyl on June 19th, 2026.
And before it officially releases, check out its full stream premiere on BraveWords HERE.
Born from a chance reunion between drummer Tommy McKinnon (Derelict, Akurion, ex‑Neuraxis, ex‑Augury) and guitarist Chase Fraser (Continuum, ex‑Decrepit Birth, ex‑Animosity) after a King Diamond show in Montreal, Conflux Collective has always been something different, a project built on spontaneity, collaboration, and the collision of extreme voices.
What began as an unexpected jam session years ago has now evolved into a fully realized underground force.
“In the Wake of Saturn” is the culmination of a long creative journey marked by setbacks, reinvention, and unwavering resolve. After the project fell dormant, McKinnon resurrected it from the ground up, writing new material, reconstructing old tracks, recording all bass parts by ear, and crafting lyrics drawn from deeply personal experiences.
To bring the album to life, he assembled a powerhouse lineup of vocalists whose performances define the record’s emotional and sonic assault: Jesse Brint (Gross Misconduct), Mallika Sundaramurthy (Emasculator, ex‑Abnormality), Jeffrey Mott (The Monster Factory, Growlers Choir), Eric Burnet (Derelict, Samskaras), Max (Derelict), who also contributes a blistering guitar solo. Each vocalist adds a distinct identity, turning the album into a multi‑dimensional narrative rather than a traditional death‑metal record.
Across its eight tracks, “In the Wake of Saturn” channels the raw ferocity of ’90s death metal through the precision and ambition of modern technical death metal, forging a sound McKinnon defines as “progressive, brutal, technical, melodic, uncompromising.” The album moves through themes of loss, fear, survival, and rebirth, unfolding as a transformative listening experience where each song feels like a chapter in a larger narrative. Shifting vocal perspectives, intricate drum work, and a balance of atonal violence and melodic clarity guide the listener through its evolving landscape. As vocalist Jesse Brint put it, “…it’s a journey.”
That journey begins with the ferocious opener “The Antidote”, a blast of brutal energy featuring some of McKinnon’s most demanding drum performances and a searing vocal delivery from Eric Burnet. From there, the album descends into the doom‑leaning weight of “Devouring Light”, a groove‑driven, darkly atmospheric piece crowned by one of Fraser’s most expressive solos. “Reincarnation” follows as a technical, emotionally charged centerpiece that mirrors the rebirth of the project itself. The title track, “In the Wake of Saturn”, delivers the album’s fastest and most direct assault, embodying the transformative force at the heart of the record. Finally, the journey closes with “Desperate Post‑Humanist”, the album’s most layered composition, an expansive and unsettling dialogue between man and machine that ends the record with haunting finality.
Mixed by Jeanne Comateuse, the album stands as a testament to perseverance and artistic integrity. Despite setbacks, lineup changes, and years of uncertainty, “In the Wake of Saturn” exists because the collective refused to let the vision die.
“This album is a journey through pain, fear, defeat, survival and finally rebirth… a true underground monster, made for those who appreciate and seek the unusual,” adds McKinnon.
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 pre-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”
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