False Light
by White Ward
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Everything comes together extremely well in this album. Probably my all time favorite black metal album now. The mix of atmospheric almost shoegaze playing leads extremely well into the intensity black metal normally has. The saxophone they use on almost all the songs really puts it above others in the genre for me.
Favorite track: Leviathan.
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Incredible sound, ideas. It´s a masterpiece.
Favorite track: Phoenix.
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The transitions from classic black metal riffs into sweeping melodic jazz sections and back into clean vocal driven post-metal atmosphere is where this beauty of this album truly lies. Perfectly crafted, and topped off with amazing use of the saxophone. Sublime.
Favorite track: Silence Circles.
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Leviathan
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Salt Paradise
05:21
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Phoenix
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Silence Circles
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Echoes In Eternity
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Cronus
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False Light
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Downfall
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about
The ever-inventive Ukrainian Black Metal band WHITE WARD unleash their defining third full-length "False Light", a grand work of exploratory depth and a remarkable expansion upon all that made 2019's acclaimed "Love Exchange Failure" such a triumph.
Always surprising and never less than captivating, from a base of rhythmically creative, furiously melodic Black and Death Metal the band shape-shift through a vivid suite of songs-as-journeys: seamlessly utilising hues of brass-led darkjazz and stately post-rock, foregrounding the evocative contributions of guesting clean vocalists in passages redolent of gothic Americana/post-punk and integrating virtuosic guitar leads, textural electronics and atmospheric sample-work.
Heavily conceptual and rich with meaning, the 8 dystopian tracks use overarching inspiration from "Intermezzo", a 1908 impressionistic novel by the Ukrainian author Mykhailo Kotsubinsky - in addition to works by Beat-writer Jack Kerouac and psychoanalyst Carl Jung – to explore government-sanctioned murders, imminent environmental catastrophes, police brutality, domestic abuse, the psychic emptiness of cities, falsity of modern mainstream culture and ill-effects of overconsumption.
"False Light" is a multi-layered success story – perfectly balancing tension and traction, restraint and resurgence, fatalism and focus into an indispensable record from a stunning band at the top of their game.
Always surprising and never less than captivating, from a base of rhythmically creative, furiously melodic Black and Death Metal the band shape-shift through a vivid suite of songs-as-journeys: seamlessly utilising hues of brass-led darkjazz and stately post-rock, foregrounding the evocative contributions of guesting clean vocalists in passages redolent of gothic Americana/post-punk and integrating virtuosic guitar leads, textural electronics and atmospheric sample-work.
Heavily conceptual and rich with meaning, the 8 dystopian tracks use overarching inspiration from "Intermezzo", a 1908 impressionistic novel by the Ukrainian author Mykhailo Kotsubinsky - in addition to works by Beat-writer Jack Kerouac and psychoanalyst Carl Jung – to explore government-sanctioned murders, imminent environmental catastrophes, police brutality, domestic abuse, the psychic emptiness of cities, falsity of modern mainstream culture and ill-effects of overconsumption.
"False Light" is a multi-layered success story – perfectly balancing tension and traction, restraint and resurgence, fatalism and focus into an indispensable record from a stunning band at the top of their game.
credits
released June 17, 2022
- Core Line Up -
Yurii Kazarian : Guitars, Vocals
Andrii Pechatkin : Vocals, Bass, Lyrics
Mykola Previr : Guitars
Ievgen Karamushko : Drums
Dima Dudko : Saxophone
- Guest musicians -
Vitaliy Havrilenko : Clean Vocals on Leviathan, Phoenix, Silence Circles & Cronus
Jay Gambit : Clean Vocals on Salt Paradise
Adam Symonds : Clean Vocals on False Light
Jerome Burns : Trumpet
Yaroslav Tovarianskyi : Doublebass
Mykola Lebed : Piano, Rhodes Piano
"False Light" was recorded at Jenny Records, LipkyZvukoZapys, and our homes.
Mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin (Ghostalgy Prods).
Artwork Photography by Lucas DeShazer.
Layout concept by El Chulito.
- Core Line Up -
Yurii Kazarian : Guitars, Vocals
Andrii Pechatkin : Vocals, Bass, Lyrics
Mykola Previr : Guitars
Ievgen Karamushko : Drums
Dima Dudko : Saxophone
- Guest musicians -
Vitaliy Havrilenko : Clean Vocals on Leviathan, Phoenix, Silence Circles & Cronus
Jay Gambit : Clean Vocals on Salt Paradise
Adam Symonds : Clean Vocals on False Light
Jerome Burns : Trumpet
Yaroslav Tovarianskyi : Doublebass
Mykola Lebed : Piano, Rhodes Piano
"False Light" was recorded at Jenny Records, LipkyZvukoZapys, and our homes.
Mixed and mastered by Alex Sedin (Ghostalgy Prods).
Artwork Photography by Lucas DeShazer.
Layout concept by El Chulito.
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