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The ever-inventive Ukrainian post-black-avant metal band White Ward will release their defining third full-length entitled False Light on the 17th of June via Debemur Morti Productions. White Ward's new album is a grand work of exploratory depth and a remarkable expansion upon all that made 2019's acclaimed Love Exchange Failure such a triumph.
Always surprising and never less than captivating, from a base of rhythmically creative, furiously melodic black and death metal the band shape-shift through a vivid suite of songs-as-journeys: seamlessly utilising hues of brass-led dark jazz and stately post-rock, foregrounding the evocative contributions of guesting clean vocalists in passages redolent of gothic Americana/post-punk and integrating virtuosic guitar leads, textural electronics and atmospheric sample-work.
Heavily conceptual and rich with meaning, the eight dystopian tracks use overarching inspiration from 'Intermezzo', a 1908 impressionistic novel by the Ukrainian author Mykhailo Kotsubinsky - in addition to works by Beat writer Jack Kerouac and psychoanalyst Carl Jung - to explore government-sanctioned murders, imminent environmental catastrophes, police brutality, domestic abuse, the psychic emptiness of cities, falsity of modern mainstream culture and ill-effects of overconsumption.
False Light is a multi-layered success story - perfectly balancing tension and traction, restraint and resurgence, fatalism and focus into an indispensable record from a stunning band at the top of their game. Two tracks are already available for streaming and you can hear them below. Link
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