The Last Eon Fuses Hard Techno and Industrial Black Metal On New Single (New Track Debut)

November 1, 2023

Industrial black metal's legacy is a bit tainted. "No drum machines!" said so many bands, to the point where they're verboten to a majority of the scene, but what if they were used in a cooler way? Bands like Mysticum and Thorns made excessively mechanized music which expressed extremity in near-hardstyle blasting and techno-inspired passages, and new act The Last Eon follows in their footsteps with an intense record of hard techno black metal. Helmed by the enigmatic Ødemark, otherwise known as The 3rd Attempt's frontman (a band he shares with Green Carnation's Tchort), The Last Eon's head-bobbing, incredibly hardened music is both black metal and blasting techno at the same time–an oddity to some, but those who remember The Last Eon's sonic lineage know it is a mark of respect to those who came before him. This is energizing music, using kinetic movement to wake up its listeners as opposed to black metal's static blasts of sound, and Ødemark's rekindling of this underrated and mostly forgotten sound is refreshing (and exciting, given the prospect of a new Thorns album on the horizon).

Listen to "DMT - Infernal Fractaltiy" below, and don't break your neck trying to keep up. Drum machines are cool, after all, and though the majority of the heavily mechanical-sounding drums on this album were performed by Jarle Byberg, a specific passage with clean-sung vocals heavily features machine-gun programmed drums.

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