Bipolar Architecture - Depressionland (2022)

Bipolar Architecture are from Turkey but they live and create their music in Germany. Although the band is debuting now, some of its members have experience from a death metal band Heretic Soul and it's audible as Depressionland sounds like a complete work made by people who know what they want.

Although their album is said to be combining a variety of music flavours: "both post- and prog-metal, with flourishes of djent, black metal, and even spacey post-rock" into a complex and artsy blend, their music force comes from the deep aggressive feelings they need to release in the sonic way. It is very audible especially in the angry vocals. The pace is not really extreme, the compositions take their time to properly develop and so make me think more of post-metal genres with hints of blackgaze's synthy walls of sound. Their sound is simply too spacey and atmospheric to be regarded as "just" black metal and I love it.

Given the background of the band and the album's title, my first thoughts were that they aim to criticize their new homeland through the lenses of broken expectations or, perhaps, the old one from the perspective of the Western pointo of view. But in the end I feel like it's way more universal: depressionland is all over each of us with everything that is going on nowadays. It's good it was articulated in such a tangible and angry voice.

Depressionland costs 7 EUR.

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Country: Turkey/Germany

Genre: fierce post-metal

Label: Talheim Records

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