Kabbalah Premiere “Dead Eyes” from Grados. Minutos. Segundos. Compilation
Pamplona harvesters of cultish melody Kabbalah release their new single ‘Dead Eyes’ as part of Spinda Records‘ comprehensive celebration of the Spanish heavy underground, Grados. Minutos. Segundos., which for the past year now has been pairing acts from the label’s home country/scene across a series of 7″ releases offered in installment batches of three and building toward a box set ultimately featuring 24 bands. Kabbalah join together with Híbrido on their split, which is a not insignificant pairing whether we’re talking on terms of common geography or not.
“Dead Eyes” is a sub-three-and-a-half-minute, hook-laden riffer following the philosophy that anything worth saying is worth saying in harmony. Its verses speak with mystic urgency and its chugging chorus effectively burrows hole in your brain as a place to dwell. There’s some atmosphere thrown in, clearly Kabbalah are keeping the texture in line structurally, and doing so in a manner consistent with early-2021’s The Omen (review here), which came out through Ripple Music offshoot Rebel Waves Records 
while also all the more suitable for the format that Grados. Minutos. Segundos. puts it on. It’s a single, after all. It should make an impression.
It speaks as well to the classic-heavy ideology on which Kabbalah build their aesthetic foundation, though even in their most ’70s-ish moments, their sound remains wholly modern. If you didn’t hear the last record, “Dead Eyes” — paired in the lyric video below with a still from John Carpenter’s ultra-classic They Live — gives a sampling as only a standalone track could. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself clicking play again when it’s over.
I have been doing my darnedest to keep up with Grados. Minutos. Segundos. as each chapter of the box set has been unveiled, with premieres like this one as well as track-by-tracks from the bands involved, and I’ve professed before that my reason for doing so is I believe deeply in Spinda‘s obvious passion, as well as the sheer scope and ambition in making it happen — never mind coordinating and releasing across 2020-2022. This is — and I’m sure I’ll say again before the series is done — something special to behold.
Enjoy “Dead Eyes”:
Kabbalah, “Dead Eyes” track premiere
Kabbalah on “Dead Eyes”:
The song ‘Dead eyes’ guides the listener through the dimly illuminated world of a passing soul.
Close to the moment of death and at the gates of the underworld, dead eyes can only assume an approaching darkness and sense what may lie afterwards.
Even if we don’t know for sure the fate of the song’s particular soul, the ominous bridge before the last chorus points towards a gloomy afterlife where there’s no possible Requiescat In Pace.
BOXSET FOR SALE AT:
https://spindarecords.bandcamp.com/album/grados-minutos-segundos
“Dead Eyes”, track extracted from ‘Grados. Minutos. Segundos.’, a compilation boxset by Spinda Records.
This track is part of a split vinyl record together with Spanish band Híbrido.
Music & Lyrics by Kabbalah
Recorded and mixed by Guillermo Fernández Mutiloa at MOTU Estudios (Spain)
Mastered at Vacuum Mastering (Spain)
Artwork by The Braves Church.
