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India based sludge/doom metal outfit Dirge will release their debut album, Ah Puch, on 19th October and have now unleashed "La Malinche", as the first taster from the album. The band comments about the track: "The song explores the mindset of La Malinche, a woman who played a key role in orchestrating the genocide of the Aztec civilisation. The evil in her psyche is imagined as a physical manifestation of the ancient Mayan goddess of suicide, Ixtab."
Dirge's debut offering Ah Puch is a concept album based on Mayan, Aztec Mythology mixed with historical events. The story revolves around the resurgence of the ancient Mayan God of Death - Ah Puch - during the conquest of Yucatan peninsula by Hernan Cortez. The music has been written to accentuate this theme, sending the listener through this fantastical world accompanied by a thick wall of sludge, and clouds of bong-smoke. Though this is the band's debut album, with an ambitious concept behind it, the band are no strangers to the world of metal.
Formed in 2014, Dirge started out as a band in Pune, a city then brimming with several acts in the local metal scene. They were unique from their peers, marked by a sheer dark, moving intensity and gritty heaviness in their music. The band soon found itself a full line-up and trudged forward ever since, winning fans, supporters and accolades over the next four years as a band and releasing a single along the way in 2015. They have played shows in the Indian underground circuit alongside contemporary acts in similar styles, like Primitiv, Shepherd, Djinn & Miskatonic and have opened for international acts such as CHU (Kazakhstan), Defiled (Japan) and performed at festivals like Bangalore Open Air (2015).
With Candlemass, Eyehategod, Neurosis, Sleep, Crowbar and Acid Bath as their primary influences, the band naturally found itself crafting a sludgy, grim and morose sound that channeled equal parts death-doom, New Orleans sludge, atmospheric post-metal and the melodic sensibilities of contemporary bands like Paradise Lost, YOB and Pallbearer - literally an amalgamation of sounds spanning three decades of slow and heavy music. Listen for yourself! Link
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