Latter Day Exploits, hailing from Roseburg, Oregon, returns with a striking new single, “Within Consumed (Ft. Kristina McKillop)” — a piece that marries industrial abrasion with black, death and doom hues. The result is a sound that’s sometimes beautiful and often ugly, always honest. As a preview of an upcoming release, the track distills LDE’s core ethos: radical candor, emotional realism, and a faith-driven lens that refuses to trivialize either darkness or hope.
Texture and tension — an alloy of industrial, black, death and doom
The band’s sonic architecture feels like a petri dish of living noise — layers of synth grit and clanging machinery push the industrial heartbeat forward while ice-bladed guitars and pummeling drums pull from black/death traditions. Doom’s gravity then widens the frame, giving space for meaning to settle. This isn’t aesthetic garnish; it’s narrative technique — a vehicle for witness. Noise becomes confession; weight becomes meditation.
“I was overtaken by fear…” — testimony and message
Frontman Aaron Wilmot speaks with rare directness about the origins of the song. Following his Marine service, he wrestled with anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. He names the spiritual lie at the heart of it — that despair is inevitable and damnation inescapable. “Within Consumed” exposes that lie and charts a turn toward an entirely different end: to be consumed by Yahweh — surrendering to the love of God that drives out fear.
“After my enlistment in the Marines I struggled with anxiety, depression, and suicide. These lyrics are a way of expressing fear and the temptation to end it all. They refer to the demonic influence of suicide. The lie is this: ‘it doesn't matter if you kill yourself now or later, you are damned in the afterlife either way.’ ‘Within Consumed’ is about being overtaken with fear, then replacing that fear with God's love and embracing Him... in the end being consumed by Yahweh.”
— Aaron Wilmot
Featuring Kristina McKillop — a vocal counterpoint of prayer
Kristina McKillop serves as a luminous counter-voice. Her lines don’t soften the edges so much as reframe them — turning the jagged movement into prayer. It feels like a dialogic psalm: lament first, then the stubborn, deliberate reach toward Light. The interplay elevates the chorus beyond catharsis; it becomes invitation.
Form and flow: rupture, pressure, release
The song’s arc moves through three distinct phases. The opening is a rupture — industrial pulse and metallic texture sounding like insomnia. The middle ratchets pressure — riffs and drums mounting stakes as melody discloses the soul’s nerve. The close allows release — doom’s widening gravity slowing the minutes until words and tones etch themselves into recall. The track works less like a “single” and more like a rite; it leaves an afterimage.
Christian metal without euphemism
Within the Christian heavy-music scene, an essential discussion continues: how to speak of darkness without aestheticizing it, and how to proclaim hope without cliche. LDE’s method is the hard discipline of truthful speech. Name the dark as dark, without romance, and only then does grace ring true — not as erasure but as transformation. Thus the coexistence of extremes: brutality and tenderness, dissonance and consonance, lament and prayer.
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Where to listen and follow
“Within Consumed (Ft. Kristina McKillop)” is available on major streaming platforms and for purchase. LDE maintains official social channels (Facebook, Instagram). You can also find more about LDE and other projects via The Charon Collective.
Official visualizer / video
The official visualizer underscores the contrast between sonic abrasion and meditative resolve. We’ll add the direct video link here upon publication.
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