Combining abrasive and gritty black metal with hallucinatory ambience and spiralling postrock intricacy, Kassad’s name is synonymous with misery, futility, and madness of modern urban life.
"London Orbital", the new album, centers around modern urban living and looks to a near future of megacities where the city itself is a personified, malevolent being where human empathy and culture have been replaced by artificial intelligence. The artist adds: "I wanted to create music for an imagined, future London - one where the city’s monoliths of glass and concrete have come alive to assert their malevolent control over the millions of people that live and toil amongst them. Workers travel in the vast shadows of these buildings, in the tunnels and transport systems that snake below or in the briefest snatches of sun that are yet to be blacked out. If you tilt your head and look at the city just right, you can already see the light starting to turn to darkness."
Tracklist:
1 The Boundary 7:27
2 The Concrete 5:26
3 The Hope 8:14
4 The Hopeless 8:52
5 The Hollow 8:42
Artist:
Kassad
Artist Country:
United Kingdom
Album Year:
2020
Title:
London Orbital
Genre:
black metal
Format:
CD
Type:
CD Album
Package:
Digipak
Label:
Hypnotic Dirge Records
Cat Num:
HDR-076
Release Year:
2020
Country Of Manufacture:
Canada
