Photos: UMBRA VITAE (Braintree, MA) – 2023/04/23

UMBRA VITAE was conceived during Wear Your Wounds rehearsals. With all members having roots in heavy music, the band would often warm up playing aggressive riffs. Jacob Bannon (Converge, WYW, Blood From the Soul), Mike Mckenzie (The Red Chord, WYW, Stomach Earth), and Sean Martin (WYW, Twitching Tongues, ex-Hatebreed) soon recruited Greg Weeks (The Red Chord, Sexless Marriage, Labor Hex), and Jon Rice (Uncle Acid, ex-Job For a Cowboy) for the rhythm section and a new band was born. The name UMBRA VITAE (pronounced uhm’-bruh vee’-tie) is an homage to Georg Heym’s poem of the same name, originally published in 1912.

Their debut effort, the 2020 long play Shadow of Life, was released by Deathwish Inc. Recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios. Guitars and bass were recorded by Mike McKenzie at The Black Coast. The album was mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

UMBRA VITAE more recently have been in the studio tracking what will be their next album with an expected release later this year.

UMBRA VITAE live at Widowmaker Brewing for Hopsmoker Fest, Braintree, MA – the band fourth live performance. on April 23, 2023. Photographs by @bananamasher.

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