Damnum: from the Latin for “harm” or “loss.” In a legal sense, damnum refers to a harm inflicted or loss incurred without bodily injury, but in a linguistic sense it goes much deeper. It represents an aching pain and sorrow, a cruel taking of something, an emotional harm that sits and stews deep and wide. It’s that kind of loss and pain that influenced Colorado’s Allegaeon on this, their sixth full length album. Fueled in equal measures by a renewed sense of creative drive and a profound sense of personal and existential grief, Damnum sees the outfit push against what is expected of them, both from within and without.
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