{"id":113517,"date":"2024-07-30T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=113517"},"modified":"2024-07-30T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T19:45:56","slug":"mekigah-debut-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=113517","title":{"rendered":"MEKIGAH – Debut New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On\u00a0August 15th<\/strong>,\u00a0Australian doom entity\u00a0MEKIGAH\u00a0<\/strong>will release their new album,\u00a0“To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart”<\/strong>, through\u00a0Aesthetic Death<\/strong>.

Following the release of the single\u00a0“Broken Rhythm Pressure”<\/strong>, today the band has given a further insight into their forthcoming album with the track\u00a0“Away Drifting From”<\/strong>.\u00a0The song is now premiering at\u00a0Doomed & Stoned<\/strong>. Stream it\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/strong>.

The fifth\u00a0MEKIGAH<\/strong>\u00a0full length album is a purposely designed ugly, drawn out, raw, awkward journey.
There’s no attempt or desire to either embrace the slow slow doom, to aggressively technically impress or to build upon previous motifs. Everything is caught between worlds, as\u00a0MEKIGAH<\/strong>\u00a0itself is caught between worlds. Nothing is where it belongs as things are uncomfortably forced together through the sheer necessity of only gaining satisfaction via sonic self sabotage and harm, creating audial-mazes to which then have to delicately navigated through.

“I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved\u201d<\/em>\u00a0–\u00a0Ralph Steadman

<\/strong>Heavily driven by basslines along with industrial, sparse, neanderthal drums. Guitars are featured heavily, but infrequently as riffs, more as screeching, wailing, floating walls of high frequency pain that are meshed with discordant piano lines \u2013 all this amidst the brief, but demented, freestyle vocal stabs and incoherent mournful chants.

Neither the gothic metal, nor the noise doom of previous releases, yet having slight nods to both in fleeting moments.
\u201cTo Hold Onto A Heartless Heart\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>can feel immensely detached & cold but somehow personal & emotional too.\u00a0This is\u00a0MEKIGAH<\/strong>\u00a0evolving, following his own heart and creative vision.

More challenging than catchy or entertaining in any shape or form. Layers of sound to discover and uncover in detail on repeated listens. At other times there feels to be claustrophobic walls of noise that are impassable, impossible to make sense of but for the hope and glimpses of reason that are seen through the minimalist riffs and beats – simplistic, repetitive and drilled into your skull over and over again.

\u201cWhat it’s all about\u201d\u2026.. is far more dictated by however any individual interprets the music, or how it makes them feel.
With any lyrical content, words & voice serving far more as an instrument or sound than expressing a storyline or emotion. Words on this album are minimal yet the confusion & loss that inspired them were huge.

Once again featuring long time collaborator guitarist Richard Ziltch and this time joined by Tasmanian underground metal legends Leigh Ritson (Disseminate, Thrall, Ruins) & Alex Pope (Ruins, Evil Dead) along with local experimental noise-mates Sova Locus, Primal Regression Therapy, Sydney Punk\/Noise stalwart Con BCTW (Blurters, Milat, Impact Statement) and local arborist Sammy.
Mastered by Greg Chandler and once again Aesthetic Death is honoured to be working together with\u00a0MEKIGAH<\/strong>\u00a0to release this on digi CD.

Tracklist:
01. Collapsing Under
02. Broken Rhythm Pressure
03. Away Drifting From
04. An infinitesimal Difference
05.\u00a0It Hisses So
06. Eyes Glazed Over

MEKIGAH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/mekigah.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Mekigah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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