LAMENT CITYSCAPE: Wyoming-based industrial-metal powerhouse explores trauma and vengeance in unsettling "The Under Dark" music video
Industrial-metal powerhouse Lament Cityscape has revealed the official music video for its new single, "The Under Dark." The song appears on the band's new album, A Darker Discharge, out April 29th on Lifeforce Records.
The unsettling video, directed by Neil Corbin, explores the complexities of trauma and vengeance. In Corbin's words: "The video concept came out of the idea of trauma and what we do with it; how we construct worlds, both real and imagined, in order to function through the everyday. By the end, the project takes on the idea of failed catharsis and how outward rage offers temporary relief, but ultimately feels hollow."
Stream "The Under Dark" video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj-spaMP_LI
Pre-order the album, here: https://orcd.co/lcs_adarkerdischarge
With a slew of recordings released over the past decade, the prolific Lament Cityscape project is the brainchild of Mike McClatchey. Past releases were hailed as “a mid-paced industrial/doom miasma” (Decibel Magazine), “simply devastating” (No Clean Singing), and "sledgehammer-level impact” (Invisible Oranges). The Wire Magazine warned: “Best jack your headphones up to their highest leakage levels.”
Incorporating elements of industrial-metal, sludge, noise, post-punk, and more, Lament Cityscape has evolved over the years to its present state. New album A Darker Discharge blazes forward like an electronics-heavy mix of Code Orange's merciless rhythms, Uniform's unhinged angst, and Jesu's melancholic grandeur.
McClatchey (who has since moved back to the West Coast) credits his relocation from Oakland, California to rural Wyoming, for the new album's aggression: "We moved from Oakland to Wyoming to stay as safe as possible regarding COVID. I instantly felt pushback from everyone here. Almost daily we would see 'Keep Your California Out of My Wyoming' shirts or bumper stickers. Trump flags being flown far after him losing. Homophobic and racist garbage everywhere. It set a tone for the album to be a lot angrier, faster, and more confrontational."
A Darker Discharge was written, recorded and mixed by Mike McClatchey at Underland Studio in Buffalo, WY. It was mastered by Zach Weeks at GodCity Recording Studio in Salem, MA.
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