SO HIDEOUS: NYC post-metal visionaries reveal drum playthrough video for new 11-minute track "Motorik Visage"
Just days away from the release of its new album, None But a Pure Heart Can Sing, New York City post-metal visionaries So Hideous have revealed a new video showing drummer Michael Kadnar playing through "Motorik Visage,"an epic, 11-minute track from the album. The video was shot at Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ, by Sean Ageman and Washed Up Media.
So Hideous' first new album is six years, None But a Pure Heart Can Sing will be released December 3rd on Silent Pendulum Records, the label owned by Kadnar himself who, in addition to his role in So Hideous, also occupies the drum throne for The Number Twelve Looks Like You.
Stream the "Motorik Visage" drum playthrough, here:
None But a Pure Heart Can Sing is the band's first new album since 2015's acclaimed Laurestine, released on Prosthetic Records. Described with words like "stunning" and "haunting," 2015's Laurestine is an album of post-metal tempests, augmented by a 30-piece orchestra. BrooklynVegan hailed the album as "devastating, end-of-the-world type sh*t, putting screamo, post-rock, and atmospheric black metal in a blender and really letting those modern classical influences shine with the orchestral parts." Mass Appeal called it "metal heavily influenced by the sound of film scores... atmospheric bliss."
Still raging as hard as ever, still expressing the extremes of torment and beauty, None But a Pure Heart Can Sing sees So Hideous incorporate new sounds and rhythms into its approach. Composer/guitarist Brandon Cruz describes in detail the new direction the band has taken: "I think we still have the foundation of what we laid before, being influenced largely by Japanese post-metal bands Mono and Envy, and composers such as Arvo Part and Max Richter. We wanted more rhythm this time and we expanded outward to include influences from Fela Kuti and Tony Allen's Afrobeat percussion, James Brown's horn section, and the balladry of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. It was also nice to finally experiment a bit with more Penderecki-style tone clusters and glissando on the more dissonant sections."
Absolutely thrilling on a musical level, absolutely cathartic on an emotional level, None But a Pure Heart Can Sing is an example of the triumph of art created with open minds and open hearts.
None But a Pure Heart Can Sing was engineered, mixed and mastered by The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Kevin Antreassian at Backroom Studios.
Photos by Sean Ageman
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