Sounds | Changeling - Changeling

Hoe meer borden wij als voorgerecht voorgeschoven krijgen, hoe harder wij uitkijken naar de hoofdschotel. Het volledige debuutalbum van Changeling dat de titel Changeling meekrijgt, verschijnt op 25 april via Season of Mist.

Dit titelnummer is echt een bommetje van 7 minuten heerlijke progressive death metal met nog een heleboel andere invloeden erin verwerkt en een heerlijke razernij naar het einde toe. Smullen maar!

Luister ook naar Abyss en Falling in Circles

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Together with core-band members Morean (Alkaloid, Dark Fortress), Arran McSporran (Virvum, Vipassi) & Mike Heller (ex-Fear Factory, Malignancy), CHANGELING are at the forefront of a new era of progressive death metal. Following the release of the debut album’s first two singles Abyss & Falling in Circles, today Season of Mist is releasing the almost 7” title track.

The newly released piece serves as the turning point in the album’s psychedelic concept narrative, chronicling the protagonist’s journey to the outer realms of the psychedelic experience. Inspired by Lovecraftian horror, existential philosophy, and the bizarre hallucinations of a consciousness torn apart, the song’s progressive structure mirrors the chaotic beauty of its lyrical themes, pulling the listener into an unsettling yet mesmerizing new dimension, though the use of microtonal synthesizers, ritualistic vocals, oriental percussion and a full choir.

“Void and vengeance shall beget

A child from below

A changeling of clandestine soul

Comes usurping the holiest of hearts

And no one shall know”

Morean sings, as the intricate but catchy fusion of progressive death metal, avant-garde jazz, and world music influences creates a surreal and immersive listening experience. The dissonant harmonies distort reality, producing an eerie and unsettling atmosphere.

Geldschläger explains:

“This song came from a few musical themes that I had written on the oud.

From those few humble notes, it turned into quite the monster - a monster where I think everybody in the core-band shines equally. At that point in the album's story, we're beginning to take the frame-work of tech/prog death metal into uncharted territory, so it seemed appropriate to give this song a unique, winding structure where a shorter pumping mid-tempo banger is book-ended by intensely psychedelic blast-beat driven parts that are building towards a quasi-black metal frenzy at the end. It also has some of my favorite Morean-lyrics of all time. Not only does he paint a vivid picture of a strange, unfamiliar dimension through his signature wordplay - he also quite literally takes us there in the song's mid-section breakdown, were we envisioned a strange jungle-ritual evoking some dark cosmic entity, somewhere between Lovecraft and Peter Jackson's "King Kong".

And, as usual, the man took it to another level by adding a multitude of eery, slithering voices, which are making the song feel almost like it's breathing. Oh, and this piece also has some of my favorite RIFFS (in capital letters) that I've ever written, as well as some quite extreme guitar shenanigans that I called "layers of cosmic horror" during production. Get out your best headphones for this one!”