White Ward Set June 17 Release for False Light
Ukrainian progressive black metallers White Ward announce the June release of their third album, False Light, through Debemur Morti Productions. The record is the follow-up to 2019’s righteous Love Exchange Failure (listed here), and the 13-minute opener and first single “Leviathan” has more scope than most bands’ careers. And no, I’m not just saying that because there’s sax and clean singing.
At what is no doubt the beginning of a longer journey, the Odessa five-piece pair squibblies, screams and angular turns with atmospherics more in line with post-metal than charred rippers. Then they have charred rippers too. It is extreme in its purpose but no less driven toward individualism than ferocity. I haven’t heard the full thing yet, but if the rest of the record follows suit — or maybe better, if it doesn’t — it will be a noteworthy realization of who they are as a group. In any case, heads up.
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From socials and the PR wire:
WHITE WARD – NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT
We are excited to announce our new album called “False Light” which will be released on June 17!
This full-length record is our most important release at this point. It took more than two years to complete this solid piece. And despite everything that is happening now in our country and beyond, we decided to share it with the world. We believe that music helps people in difficult times. We know how powerful its healing abilities are. That’s why we can wait no longer. “False Light” will be released via Debemur Morti Productions on various formats, including CD, Vinyl, Tape, and Digital.
You can already listen to the first single named “Leviathan” on Youtube and Bandcamp!
You can find it here: https://linktr.ee/whiteward
The album is already available for preorders!
Bandcamp: https://whiteward.bandcamp.com/
EU Webstore: bit.ly/whitewardEU
US Webstore: bit.ly/whitewardUS
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.
Tracklist:
1. Leviathan
2. Salt Paradise
3. Phoenix
4. Silence Circles
5. Echoes In Eternity
6. Cronus
7. False Light
8. Downfall
– 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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