Press launch –
Steel band Dystopica returns with its fourth launch, an EP entitled Semblance of Order, which is out now by Pavement Leisure. The EP is intense, quick, aggressive, melodic and the start of a brand new heavier chapter for the band. Semblance of Order transcends genres by fusing the uncooked driving power of conventional heavy metallic and thrash metallic with the complexity of progressive metallic and the punch of contemporary metallic.
Along with the EP’s launch, Dystopica has additionally dropped the music video for “A Semblance of Order.” The title monitor of the EP incorporates a killer efficiency by the band.
On the making of the music video, vocalist Becky Brideau says, “‘A Semblance of Order’ is about eager to really feel the best way you seem. Edited by two-time Emmy Award-Winner Eric Michael Schrader, the music video expresses this that means by visuals and an lively efficiency.”
The video was filmed at Space67studios, an outdated financial institution in Norwalk, CT, that was became a manufacturing studio. On the video’s setting, Brideau says, “We really feel that the situation suits the video completely. The band efficiency takes place in a room with financial institution vaults behind us which is totally different from something we now have accomplished earlier than. For the cutaways I’m in one other room singing in a mirror at my very own reflection. The vaults characterize issues locked away within the thoughts and my reflection represents my outward look.”
Produced by Nick Bellmore (Dee Snider, Corpsegrinder, Ripper, Hatebreed, Poisonous Holocaust, Many Eyes), Semblance of Order is heavier than Dystopica’s 2021 Notion, 2022 Deception and 2024 Infinite Reflection and incorporates extra fashionable metallic components whereas bringing again qualities basic heavy metallic to create an epic sound.
Every music on the EP could be very distinct from each other however as an entire it expresses varied themes and feelings that lie beneath the floor of what seems to be order.
With each chugging and harmonized twin guitar riffs, shredding solos, vigorous drumming, thunderous bass and highly effective feminine vocals that change effortlessly from robust, melodic singing and excessive operatic singing to fierce growling and piercing screams, Dystopica additional expands their core sound of mixing basic heavy metallic and fashionable metallic.
Dystopica is: Becky Brideau on vocals, Rob Muller on guitar, Lucas Dellaporta on bass, and Christian “HAM” Peragine on drums.