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LYCHGATE premiere "Precipice"
"LYCHGATE saved a dark, emotional gem for damn near the end of the year with "Precipice," an album that proves the band's ambition knows no satisfaction." (Meat Mead Metal)
Ahead of its December 19h release, UK avant-Death/Black Metal band LYCHGATE premiere their labyrinthian new album "Precipice" on our YouTube channel. In a little under 50 minutes, the band layer fusion riffs, leads and rhythms into skewed melodic entanglements which erupt into strident bludgeon - balefully contrasted with spacious, keyboard-led, classical/jazz-inflected passages rich with tension-heavy dynamics. The players bursting forth in a rush of devastatingly claustrophobic vocals and finely-honed avant-Black Metal mastery.
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The aesthetic universe of "Precipice" is influenced by various works of literature and film, as main composer Vortigern elucidated in a recent interview with Rock Hard Italy:
"I wanted the theme of "Precipice" to be a logical progression from previous themes (the Panopticon, surveillance, loss of the individual, crowd/"swarm" psychology etc.), without repeating ourselves. I also wanted the source – E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" (1909) – to be from the early twentieth century. And while the theme is arguably a simplistic one, it's also powerful. It was chosen roughly halfway through the writing of the music. I found there was a good structure to work from and a means of linking its themes to other sources. For example, 'Mausoleum of Steel' literally refers to the hexagonal cells people live in in the novella, but it's also themed on Plato's allegory of the cave, where prisoners are chained in a cave, and their reality consists of shadows: second-hand copies of reality, rather than direct sources. Even more importantly, the prisoners do not wish to leave, since they know no better life, or other version of this reality. Other literary influences included H. G. Wells' "A Story of the Days to Come" and "The Sleeper Awakes", T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland", and Nietzsche's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"."
"Precipice" will be released on CD, vinyl - including an exclusive DMP variant - and digital on December 19th. A special t-shirt design will accompany the launch. Pre-orders are possible via our EU, US and Bandcamp shops.
