Lucidity
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This week we have been honored with another superb premiere from our friends over at Zegema Beach Records. New Music Monday is excited to bring you the latest single from Lucidity, the song “A Parting Word” is off their debut release “The Minsk Sea”.
Featuring ex-members of Smile To The Wind, this lush and heavy track combines massive drumming with intense riffs, creating a sonic landscape of gargantuan proportions. The song's crushing energy is a brilliant mixture of emotive hardcore, black metal and potent screamo. Beginning with moody, almost emo-esque twangs the temporary feeling of a Cars Get Crushed song fades away with the intense strumming of distorted guitars as an insidious basslines begins to writhe into cascades of spine-shattering drum fills. The sweeping grandiosity of all the instruments kicks into a delicious blend of discordance and breakneck playing before returning to ominous dueling guitar rhythms. Erupting once more the open-mouth-of-hell vocal delivery is layered with an even deeper and equally sinister growl behind it.
“The Minsk Sea” is easily going to rocket to a lot of year end lists with its excellent blend of melodies and disgustingly heavy moments. Out on all streaming next week and only 100 vinyl copies through Zegema Beach Records on March 27th, listen to their other brilliant single, “The Saga of A Belarusian Feast” available now via the the ZBR Bandcamp and pre-order the digitals to tide you over until release day.
