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Following their latest EP Haganvelt (2019), 23 June will see the release of Eis, the debut full-length by blackened doom metallers Loather, which will be coming out on Vendetta Records. Hailing from Vienna, Austria, Loather has been continuously blurring the lines of European underground metal since 2016, releasing a demo and two EPs and sharing the stage with acts such as Gggolddd, Ultha, Wiegedood, Windhand and more. Being their first proper full-length, Eis sees the band taking its unique blackened narcotic metal to new, at times unexpected territories - rest assured that the result will ignite your heart while chilling you to the bone at the same time.
"Themes of loss and longing run through the DNA of 'Holler Your Name'. The first single of upcoming album Eis (out on Vendetta Records on June 23rd) by Austrian post-'post-metal' band Loather starts out as a blackened mid-tempo dirge, all yearning guitar lines, soaring vocals and cavernous screams - which makes the melancholic ending passage of mournful, almost ecclesial bass and ethereal sighing even more effective", comments the band.
As the name suggests, Eis (German for ice) is a rather chilling affair, and while it is not a concept album at heart, themes of loss and interpersonal struggle can be heard in the soothing voices and desperate screams strewn across the icy landscape. Rooted in the group's signature narcotic approach to metal music, reducing the record's atmosphere to mere genre tags would do their versatile worldbuilding through sound wrong: it's not the direct influence of blackened or doomed metal that renders the nebulous haze of tracks like "Holler Your Name" so eerily effective - the key to this darkness lies in its successful blending of honest feelings with a lack of restraint when it comes to passionate delivery of good old heaviness.
Now, Eis' first offering: "Holler Your Name"... Link
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