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Keverra Premiere “Bathsheba” Video from Self-Titled Debut

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Like razorblades into the eardrums, so goes the scathe of our lives. Los Angeles-based Keverra waste not a moment in delivering same on their self-titled Seeing Red Records debut album, comprising 10 tracks of alternately atmospheric and churning, precision-doled aggro fury, taking the bounce of West Coast noise rock born of skate culture punk 40-ish years ago and digging into something meaner, harsher, and more thickly toned with it. “Albion” rolls, “Bathsheba” crunches with starts and stops, but the message and bite and disaffection remain consistent.

There’s no shortage of sludge underpinning either, and that they know what they’re doing is less of a surprise when one considers the band’s lineage: bassist Scott Renner tenuring in Goatsnake and playing live in Sourvein, drummer Mateo Pinkerton keverra keverraformerly in -(16)- and ahead-of-their-time victory-bringer metal traditionalists Crom, as well as Buzzov*en, and vocalist/guitarist Kurk Stevens in his noise outfit Mayan Bull, which accounts for the ambience strewn throughout and between the longer cuts in pieces like “Incendiare,” “Anasthetic,” the feedback-driven “Bitter Air of Exile” and “Funerary,” the low static drone of which which appears right ahead of punishing final duo “No God” and “Black Tie Affair,” marked by a great chugging and gnashing of teeth.

The character of Keverra as an album though isn’t necessarily limited to one or the other side. That is, while in a certain sense it trades between atmospheric interludes and pummeling noise-sludge metal, the lines aren’t so strictly drawn, and a song like “Bathsheba” or the later “Object to be Destroyed,” or even “No God”, has the room to flesh out as it needs to. I wouldn’t call anything so intense patient — it’s not trying to be patient, it’s trying to eat your face — but there is a method at work behind Keverra‘s songwriting and while their mission might be distinctly furious, they’re working to broaden the palette of noise in a way that doesn’t let go of the anger at its core but comes across as a little more contemplative; or at very least they’re aiming the flamethrower before they torch whatever’s in their path.

I’ll spare you the tie-in to the pandemic or the sociopolitical climate, or, you know, the climate climate — since all that stuff is overarching and relevant anyhow, and if you find your skin crawling with bitter restlessness, you’ll be glad to know that Keverra‘s Keverra is name-your-price at the band’s Bandcamp now.

A quote from the band follows the video and gives some background.

Please enjoy:

Keverra, “Bathsheba” official video premiere

Keverra on “Bathsheba”:

The song ‘Bathsheba’ is about suppression and the dynamic and vexing nature of its many manifestations.

The footage for the video was shot in March; eerily, just a few days before Los Angeles went into quarantine.

We originally met our friend (Photographer/DP) Todd Hickey that day to hammer out the live portion of a video that was intended to be edited in w/ other concept footage. Given the utter excising of live music from all of our lives we decided that it might be best to take a step toward filling that void by just showing us do our thing.

Hails, stay safe, hope to see everyone real soon!

KEVERRA is:
Kurk Stevens: Guitars, Vocals, Noise
Scott Renner: Bass
Mateo Pinkerton: Drums, Vocals, Samples

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