With 'Blessing in Disgust,' New York tech-metal trio Behold the Arctopus release their wildest creation to date. See why it's a Song You Need to Know
due out in June. The album finds the band making a key evolutionary step, stemming from the classical-percussion expertise of current drummer Jason Bauers.
“The drum kit for the new album removes extreme metal’s constant harsh static wash by deleting all hi-hats, crashes, and ride cymbals, replacing them with, wooden plank, metal pipe, broken stacks, and bell/chimes,” explains the band. “Sticks are replaced by mallets, and, more importantly, the function of the drums is no longer to play ‘beats.’ Instead the drums take on a role more similar to the guitars, resulting in a sound closer to chamber music than rock.
Translation: If you’re the kind of metal fan who longs to subject your ears to utter disorientation and bafflement, you are going to be in heaven when you hit play on preview track “Blessing in Disgust.” The guitars chug and trill, sprint and clank, offset by Bauer’s dizzying percussion barrage, which sounds like an AI robot going haywire in the pipe aisle at Home Depot.
The great thing about metal, or any other style, is that you don’t have to pick a side. You can savor your meat and potatoeschase the latest trends in molecular gastronomy. We celebrate today’s leather-vested heshers, still shredding like it’s 1984, but at the same time, we’re happy that there’s a band like Behold out there, inspiring us to hit play over and over — in a futile-yet-rewarding effort to figure out what the hell it was we just heard.
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