Dead In The Manger - Biography
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Biography
Very little information was provided to 20 Buck Spin regarding Dead In The Manger when the label was initially contacted about a release. Only that the band play a mix of depressive black metal and grind (which seemed on paper an impossible combination) and that the intention is to leave a feeling of unease and despondency in the listener. Nonetheless a cursory listen to Transience leaves no doubt that on its debut MLP Dead In The Manger succeeds handily in creating music both brutally violent and coldly agonizing.
Transience begins with an atmospheric repetitive motive conjuring a bleak sadness that sets the stage for an urgent right turn to scalpel sharp high bpm aggression and multiple stab wounds of hate driven malcontent. Filled with ill will and revulsion, Dead In The Manger walk a fine line between all out sensory violence and post trauma exhaustion.
At just 6 songs in under 20 minutes, Transience destroys the listener with a calculated premeditation in just a short time, and is intended as a first glimpse at what Dead In The Manger are preparing for. A debut full-length album is in the works currently and will see release via 20 Buck Spin later in 2014.
On Cessation, Dead In The Manger follows up their Transience debut from 2014 with six new stages in the grief process, resolved in their adherence to dispiriting melodic atmosphere and frenzied black carnage, ever reaching upward yet inevitably pulled down into the mire. Whether grinding forth in a cascade of blinding black metal violence or cloaked in despondent post-rock gloom, Cessation leaves no space for hope, compelling the paradoxical embrace of suffering.
As before, song titles, production credits, individual personalities and origins remain trivial in service of the one true purpose for Dead In The Manger, internal disorder from external domination. The machinery of plutocratic slavery, churning and grinding the spirit of life until little remains but the last gasp of a doomed humanity, a cessation of the primal light in an absurdist nightmare.
Transience begins with an atmospheric repetitive motive conjuring a bleak sadness that sets the stage for an urgent right turn to scalpel sharp high bpm aggression and multiple stab wounds of hate driven malcontent. Filled with ill will and revulsion, Dead In The Manger walk a fine line between all out sensory violence and post trauma exhaustion.
At just 6 songs in under 20 minutes, Transience destroys the listener with a calculated premeditation in just a short time, and is intended as a first glimpse at what Dead In The Manger are preparing for. A debut full-length album is in the works currently and will see release via 20 Buck Spin later in 2014.
On Cessation, Dead In The Manger follows up their Transience debut from 2014 with six new stages in the grief process, resolved in their adherence to dispiriting melodic atmosphere and frenzied black carnage, ever reaching upward yet inevitably pulled down into the mire. Whether grinding forth in a cascade of blinding black metal violence or cloaked in despondent post-rock gloom, Cessation leaves no space for hope, compelling the paradoxical embrace of suffering.
As before, song titles, production credits, individual personalities and origins remain trivial in service of the one true purpose for Dead In The Manger, internal disorder from external domination. The machinery of plutocratic slavery, churning and grinding the spirit of life until little remains but the last gasp of a doomed humanity, a cessation of the primal light in an absurdist nightmare.