Night Beheaded "Enter Earth" And Uncover Strange Worlds Within (Early Album Stream)
Rising to meet the new dawn is Night Beheaded, an entity born from the ritualistic veils of the forest and one which lives in the transient glow of the coming day and the starlit pathways of the night. Originally from Oakland and now living in Berlin, sole member B.S.s. (Common Eider, King Eider and Curse All Kings) showcases ambient soundscapes heard on their other projects as well as injecting the cold, swirling winds of black metal into Enter Earth and its five immersive tracks. Routing Night Beheaded through jarring guitars and vocals that echo from the otherworld, the band’s debut is a stark and self-reflective journey into the darkness that seeks the glimmers of hope that lie tantalizingly out of reach.
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“I” begins this voyage into the unknown through haunting gales and a voice distorted by time and energy. B.S.s. breathes life into Enter Earth via stirring guitars, rich organs and a spirited vocal delivery that encompasses heady screams and breathy incantations. As the album moves forward, we hear folkier elements in “II” and its gentle opening that belies the aggression soon to follow. Night Beheaded filter their pain through cyclic riffs that rise with potent grief, and where the album could tip over into wallowing, it turns to ambient textures to divine a new way of thinking. “III” and “IV” both use these structures to different but no less jolting effect, and as the tones of “VV” heed the coming end, Night Beheaded inhale the aura of magick and exhale the agony of the past, as if to change the future.
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The band comment:
“Born of darkness, but infused with the hope of renewal, Night Beheaded offer themselves as conduits for disruption, vessels for inversion.
Recorded in the darkness of the early morning night on Yule, five offerings are given as gifts to the returning sun warming the soil, and the seeds awakening to the light.”
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Enter Earth releases March 4th via Breath Sun Bone Blood.
