BEWILDERING TIMES SEEM to call for bewildering music, but while this shadowy collective are keen to splice and cross-pollinate as many styles and genres as possible, they’re also encouraging listeners to dig for a deeper truth. The band’s debut album – the frankly stunning Dark Triad: Bitter Psalms To A Sordid Species – spills ambition, ideas and songwriting wizardry from every orifice as it picks apart subjects like corruption, fake news and political demagoguery.
“A decade of austerity, the Brexit referendum, the election of right wing populist leaders around the world, Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, the Panama papers and Cambridge Analytica scandals are the main events that guided us,” explains the project’s anonymous mastermind. “There’s a concerted effort to delude people into believing there is no objective truth, that our worst aspects…
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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2021