Normally, high up in the top floor of Maim Towers, I put together
my reviews with wit, wisdom and the knowledge that I am right
and you are wrong. But the band have put forward their own manifesto
that says everything that needs to be said.
Combining abrasive and gritty black metal with hallucinatory
ambience and spiralling postrock intricacy, Kassad’s name is
synonymous with misery, futility, and madness of modern urban life.
"London Orbital", the new album, centers around modern
urban living and looks to a near future of megacities where
the city itself is a personified, malevolent being where human
empathy and culture have been replaced by artificial intelligence.
The artist adds: "I wanted to create music for an imagined,
future London - one where the city’s monoliths of glass and
concrete have come alive to assert their malevolent control
over the millions of people that live and toil amongst them.
Workers travel in the vast shadows of these buildings, in the
tunnels and transport systems that snake below or in the
briefest snatches of sun that are yet to be blacked out.
If you tilt your head and look at the city just right, you can
already see the light starting to turn to darkness."
This is the good shit.
