SCARCITY

 

Origen: E.E.U.U., New York.

Formados: 2020

Estilo: Black exeprimental

Temática: Dolor

Enlaces: Bandcamp, facebook, instagram y spotify

Miembros:

• Brendon Randall-Myers Guitarra
• Doug Moore Voces
• Dylan DiLella Guitarra
• Lev Weinstein Batería
• Tristan Kasten-Krause Bajo

Discografía:

• Aveilut CD 2022  
• The Promise of Rain CD 2024

THE PROMISE OF RAIN (2024)

Sólo un par de años después de su álbum de debut los neoyorquinos Scarcity le dan continuidad en este "The Promise of Rain" un  nuevo trabajo que sigue la senda marcada con "Aveilut" adentrándose una vez más por esos terrenos nada accesibles que mucha veces es el black experimental. Digamos que el dolor y el sufrimiento se encuentran perfectamente representados en todas la canciones, en cierta secciones casi que se trona asfixiante, convirtiéndose en un forma extraña que nos va doblegando. Manteniendo un entramado de guitarras que ni por asomo se despliegan en un tono melódico, haciendo gala de secciones llenas de disonancias que muchas veces se vuelven totalmente desconcertante en terrenos llenos de patrones repetitivos que nos llevan casi a una estado de trance. Como una experiencia vital llena de sufrimiento y dolor, presente tanto en la música como en las voces de Doug que sabe atraparnos en su estado de dolor desde una perspectiva de rabia y desazón. El álbum va trascurriendo hasta llegar a determinadas secciones donde parece querer aflorar influencias de estilos como el death, o el doom, dejando también un regusto a hardcore trillado en el fondo de la mezcla, sobre todo si nos centramos en facetas como la intensidad. Un álbum que en definitiva se muestra repleto de giros y secciones diversas, encaminadas a crear una textura rugosa y por momentos compleja, con unas guitarras afilada que se fagocitan entre si para crear un sonido que aún siendo complejo se nutre de disonancias para sembrar la discordia en el oyente, para logar sumergirlos en ese paisaje de dolor que quieren trasmitir (7,6).

The Flenser

1. In the Basin of Alkaline Grief 06:02

   Weightless in the arid wind

I plummet, wild and livid

Towards your sere terrain

Cruel and perfect

It burns, unconquered

Scarred and crenelated

Where the waters went extinct

Echoes from epochs of violence

That left its bones flayed

And though I am afraid

I rush towards your embrace

Here, in the basin of alkaline grief

Loom the wounds in your soul, arrayed

Beneath the heavens’ desiccant gaze

I will make this waste our home

Beloved, you will never be alone

2. Scorched Vision 11:25

Rigors and strictures In the house of devotion To trespass with care and grace To conserve strength To consume salt, to shed dead weight Below a baleful sky, to seek my place I cast out for the parched ways I become what you need me to be Kneeling seared in the sand In blistered tones, I plead For the ghost of this fleshless land To alight in the shattered trees I am touched by exhaustion’s hand Sweat-beads bejewel my face I abjure the strength to stand And persist in attitudes of faith Drained in delirium’s canyon In awe of the mystery Vision, reveal yourself to me In the red My wretched crest Unwinds, cracks open Ashen, gasping The distal blade of hemotoxin Cleaves the horizon Cleansed by dust, at last I see That tender flower Scorched but lovely In mourning, secure From forgotten enemies In this abyss of rock and sun In this erased inland sea  

3. Subduction 03:44

Slow time still flows

By night

The patient stars align

Their sigils constant, their patterns known

They draw ripples ‘cross the stone

Fifty million years wide

A molten tide

Hills rise up, hills erode

I see your face made strange

Pain accrued in substrate waves

That on your brow broke

Like subduction; like undertow

Your world quakes, your world erodes

And as the dawn breaks

In shadow I wait

For your shape to be exposed

4. Undertow 04:05  

5. Venom & Cadmium 07:27

The mesa dreams its grueling dream Caustic and fragile And poisons paint its sleeping streams Venom and cadmium What souls would roam your suffering slopes Shall stand transformed; their other course Is strewn with spines, cords bleached and tanned By brilliance, beast, or ferrous storm My worn pride bruised the dust before My stricken weight, my burden spilled And picked apart by omnivores Who slithered forth in armored plate From dens that pierce your scarp-swelled silt Your cursеd earth collects its tithe In fеvers ‘tween the anticlines Where fools presumed to understand What waits for them in this drained land   

6. The Promise of Rain 07:26

Should I die among your sage My essence shall burst free and drain Through roots of those same droughted plants Who clasp your past; they understand That I once knew you, light and shade, And fell in peace like promised rain But should I live, let me remain O draw me near; in pools I’ll stand And from your heat, draw shining strength While nestled in your sandstone hands Where we may watch your seasons rage And, graceless, dance along your strands For I, too, am marred and strange By sun and wind and stars deplored A vagrant flood, a moth to flame, Adoring your unearthly forms So wrap me in your fierce embrace And by our joining faults abide Forgive me what mistakes I’ve made And sing to me through vanished tides For quick or still, I shall hold true And ‘til, in time, my torrent breaks, Will judge your madness beautiful And linger by your slender sage

  40:09

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