Vancouver-based Metal band Spell has released their new LP, Wretched Heart, via Bad Omen Records. The album is a “journey through desperation and defiance.” Wretched Heart is the follow-up to the band’s 2022 LP, Tragic Magic.

Vocalist/guitarist/bassist Cam Mesmer says of their work:

Music is magic, and Spell is a spell. Fundamentally, it is a forum to make our dreams come true.

The band has also released a video for new song, “Exquisite Corpse”, which was created by Jamie Ward.

Cam Mesmer says of the song:

It’s so easy to idealize the past and remember things in a way that was never really true. Especially when we lose people, we can tend to think about them in a perfect way, and mourn the loss of an idealised imaginary person that never really existed in the first place.

Mesmer says about the band’s inspiration:

Heavy metal can often be a regressive genre, almost by definition. But it doesn’t have to be! I think that getting set in your ways is death. I consider SPELL to be a heavy metal band, and therefore whatever music we make, will therefore be heavy metal, rather than the other way around, where you try to make your band fit into whatever narrow niche you think heavy metal is supposed to sound like.