Alt Metal duo Pathos & Logos have released “Let Me Go,” the first single off of their new EP, Gospel today, Friday February 14th, 2025. The single version features two alternate takes on the track (Hunter’s Moon Version and an Instrumental Version) and comes with a live play Radio Edit video. The new EP will arrive in full on June 27th, 2025.
Gospel marks the follow up to their 2022 EP of instrumentals, titled Cult. Gospel is a landmark album as it is the first Pathos & Logos release to feature vocals, with both member taking turns singing lyrics. It was mixed by Kyle Neeley (The Black Dahlia Murder, In This Moment) and Mastered by Ryan Williams (Slayer, Kardishev).
Regarding the addition of lyrics to their songs, the band has this to say:
“We have played in 20 states and Canada and communed with countless audiences as an instrumental duo, a medium we have grown accustomed to since the band’s inception in 2018. Following the release of our 2022 album Cult, our successful PR campaign and over a year of touring, we developed and recorded a new album, tentatively called Gospel. Pushing boundaries of concept, technique and energy, this new instrumental album was ready for release on-schedule for the summer of 2024, but in early 2024 it began to seem that a hidden hand was pushing us towards exciting but untested new possibilities.
A talented local singer became available, and we decided to reach out to ask about working together on a new project. They were eager to meet, and after a few sessions discussing their interest, intention and creative direction, we began collaborating. An entire separate album was written and recorded, lyrics were written and the logistics of being a band with vocals were established. Ultimately, this new band never came to life, but the message from the Universe was clear: it was time to reorder Pathos & Logos and become a vocal project.
The beginning of this endeavor held inspiring experiments and novel challenges in equal measure. It was exciting to recommission our dormant vocal capabilities and write lyrics, but neither of us had consistently performed vocals for many years. We were also tasked with acquiring new vocal skills that demanded protracted, careful and consistent effort; a daunting task all by itself, let alone following an unusually long interval of inactivity. Playing and singing also required certain modifications to our writing style to accommodate the new influx of energy and concept, resulting in a streamlining of our sound and a departure from the improvisational aspects of our process.
In the end, after many months of growing, learning, adjusting and interfacing with the new reality, the stars aligned, and a new version of Gospel was born. It is our greatest songwriting to date and has woven within it the richest and most potent Magick we have ever done. The original version of Gospel still sleeps, dreaming deep of its proximal timeline, but the new Gospel is ready, and the time has come to spread the good word. Thank you all for your kindness, support and love; the Gospel is coming, and in eager anticipation of its power and passion we once more invoke the unifying spell of our sect: GLORY TO THE ORDER.”
Formed in Denver, Colorado in 2018, Pathos & Logos features guitarist Kyle Neeley and drummer Paul Christiansen, who had worked together in numerous acts previously, “celebrating Art as a system of spirituality and Magick.” Their debut, Glory To The Order arrived in 2020, returning in 2022 with the EP of instrumentals Cult.
Christiansen says about their upcoming EP:
‘Gospel’ is laden with lots of ideas. There’s a recurring melodic theme that appears throughout the recording, while delving deeper into our Magickal concepts. The Magickal/spirituality work that we do is also recorded in books that we make. One of them, ‘The Libo Ordo’, has a section with sigils [symbols considered to have magical power] that we created, which we then assigned specific rhythms to. By incorporating these rhythms into the songs, they’re vested with the energy of our intentions. Even the keys of the songs carry certain meanings and energy for us. It’s safe to say that ‘Gospel’ has several layers of meaning for us, and that is absolutely by design.
