ANTIMOZDEBEAST, the extreme industrial and electronic black metal project of multi instrumentalist and producer Gabriel Palacio, has released the new single “Torn Mentality”. The track stands as one of the core thematic works from the upcoming full length album The Vagrant Unkempt Grave, scheduled for release on May 15, 2026.
“Torn Mentality” explores a fevered psychological state shaped by spiritual contradiction, ideological pressure, and emotional fracture. The song moves through cycles of fatalism, distrust, devotion, and resentment, reflecting a consciousness pulled between belief and rejection. Repeated invocations of paradise, treachery, blasphemy, and religion function as confrontational signals rather than absolutes, mirroring the instability of faith and identity in a world governed by imposed meaning. Industrial electronics, ritual atmospheres, and blackened intensity collide to create a tense and immersive composition that reflects the album’s broader narrative.
ANTIMOZDEBEAST announces the release of its new full length album The Vagrant Unkempt Grave. The record will be self released on May 15, 2026 and represents the next stage in the project’s ongoing examination of spiritual conflict, psychological unrest, and the erosion of collective belief systems.
Listen on YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/lJ8u-8XKkDE?si=Rg8yCmsIZiuSsOl0
Pre-Order the album on Bandcamp HERE: https://antimozdebeast.bandcamp.com/album/the-vagrant-unkempt-grave
Active since 2019, ANTIMOZDEBEAST has developed a distinct sound built on harsh electronic structures, ritualistic pacing, and confrontational vocal expression. The Vagrant Unkempt Grave expands this approach into a cohesive meditation on the vagrant soul, the decay of creation, and the search for truth within systems shaped by myth, power, and distortion. The album spans seven tracks across fifty five minutes, including “Solitude”, “The Temple of Vindication”, and “Torn Mentality”, and presents a continuous descent through themes of isolation, belief, manipulation, and internal collapse.
All music on The Vagrant Unkempt Grave is written, performed, recorded, mixed, mastered, and visually conceptualized by Gabriel Palacio. The album reflects a fully autonomous creative process and continues the project’s focus on exposing fractures within religion, politics, and social structures while encouraging critical thought and personal awakening.
About ATIMOZDEBEAST:
ANTIMOZDEBEAST is the extreme industrial and electronic black metal project of American composer and multi instrumentalist Gabriel Palacio, an artist whose life and work are shaped by equal parts suffering, persistence, and spiritual inquiry. Born in Queens, New York in 1985 with congenital heart disease, Gabriel underwent his first open heart surgery at age three and spent his childhood navigating both medical fragility and the intense religious expectations of a massive family rooted in Catholic tradition. His mother, once bound for a life as a nun, left the convent path to immigrate to the United States, where she raised Gabriel and his brother within a home steeped in devotion, ritual, and the tension between faith and individuality. By age fifteen Gabriel had already committed himself to music, turning to instruments not only as creative outlets but as anchors in a life marked by psychological struggle and the early onset of mental health challenges that continued into adulthood.
In 2015, months before his second open heart surgery, Gabriel’s brother passed away in an accidental death. The loss altered the course of his life and transformed his artistic direction, sharpening his awareness of mortality, grief, and the fragile architecture of the human mind. ANTIMOZDEBEAST was born in 2019 as a direct response to this period of collapse and reinvention, a vehicle through which Gabriel could confront the corruption he perceived within religion, politics, and society while exploring the boundaries between divine and profane, creation and decay, salvation and despair. With each release he shapes a world that reflects his own spiritual reinterpretation of God, good and evil, and the afterlife, drawing from the extremity of black metal, the mechanical violence of industrial music, and the atmospheric tension of electronic composition.
Every ANTIMOZDEBEAST recording is entirely written, performed, produced, mixed, mastered, and visually conceptualized by Gabriel. The project’s extensive discography, which includes works such as ICRI, The Political Beast, The Beast of War, And the Antichrist, The Red River, Crepuscular, AntiMozdeBeast II, The Ritual, Mother Earth, Vision, Land of Nod, Lake of Fire, Vision II, Roman Catholic Prison System, The Alien Machine, and Dogs of Deity, documents a constant evolution in both sonic density and philosophical depth. Even as the catalog expands at a prolific pace, each album serves a unified purpose. ANTIMOZDEBEAST creates art that exposes spiritual and societal deception while encouraging the listener to confront the ideas and beliefs that shape their perception of truth.
With The Vagrant Unkempt Grave, Gabriel enters a new stage of refinement and emotional force. The album expands his industrial black metal fusion into a sweeping narrative about the vagrant soul, the decay of creation, and the awakening of consciousness within a world torn apart by myth and manipulation. ANTIMOZDEBEAST continues to stand as a singular and uncompromising presence within the extreme music landscape, a project born from tragedy, shaped by resilience, and driven by an unbreakable devotion to art as revelation.
Connect with ANTIMOZDEBEAST:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AntiMozdeBeast
Bandcamp: https://antimozdebeast.bandcamp.com/music
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Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/antimozdebeast
YouTube: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCo5gzPr_2GeRrDMFz7AH_Ww?feature=share
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6MMjxjSsLPZ4F2UubCxU7G?si=O6QJuZvRTaaxj0TsQIwLmQ
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/antimozdebeast/1457862655
Track Listing:
- Solitude
- The Temple of Vindication
- Torn Mentality
- Interlude
- Corridor of Admiration
- Conversion
- Conclave