“Seed Of The Night” is the latest single from progressive deathgaze alchemists, KARDASHEV. The emotional new track comes off the band’s Alunea full-length, set for release on April 25th on Metal Blade Records.
Alunea is a direct sequel to the events of The Almanac and picks up right where the song “Beyond Sun And Moon” leaves off. Vocalist Mark Garrett comments, “The first releases in The KARDASHEV Mythos were broad and conceptual, but they’ve morphed into something more granular and specific. Alunea tells the story of the main character from The Almanac album meeting a being created in the song ‘Continuum’ from the Excipio album. Their meeting is a philosophical examination of where responsibility and duty intersect. We don’t try to answer those questions, but we do examine them deeply in this album.”
Garrett further elaborates on their latest single, “‘Seed Of The Night” involves Sky-Brother telling the being of their destiny. He explains they were created to bring life to a planet that humanity could never be able to reach, and to continue mankind’s legacy. The being feels burdened by the responsibility and takes on the name ‘Atlas’ to represent the weight of their perceived destiny.
“Musically, this song was written as a progressive exploration in composition as it sees what the band refers to as ‘the funk-down’ when the traditional composition of a deathcore-style breakdown is enhanced into a melody throughout the rhythm section as opposed to the often-overused simplicity of ‘Chug Chug Chug.’”
Adds guitarist Nico Mirolla, “We (collectively) can find ourselves depending too much on the most powerful moments of music going so far as to make it into an entire composition of ‘that moment’ when in reality that approach can devalue the once powerful moment of something like an open chord breakdown. This song was an opportunity to break that mold, and hopefully people feel that.”
Stream KARDASHEV’s previously released single, “Reunion,”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40-IdJqXTm0
Alunea, which includes guest appearances by vocalist Erin from the band Genital Shame on “Speak Silence” and Pawel JJ Przybysz who played duduk, an Armenian woodwind instrument, on “We Could Fold The Stars,” and artwork by Karl E., was mixed and mastered by Zack Ohren (Entheos, Machine Head, Demon King, Fallujah).
Find preorders at
metalblade.com/kardashev