Denver, Colorado's Vale of Pnath is named after a vast bone-strewn region of H.P. Lovecraft's underworld. Emerging in the late 2000s, the band serves up a lethal cocktail of blackened technical death metal with hints of melody and dark, symphonic grandeur, as heard on caustic and uncompromising studio albums like 2011's Prodigal Empire, 2019's Accursed, and 2024's Between the Worlds of Life and Death.
Founded in 2006 by guitarist Vance Valenzuela, bassist Alan Paredes, drummer Jeremy Portz, and vocalist David Lercher, the band added virtuosic six-stringer Mikey Reeves-Juarez...