A perfected human race brought down by its own need to innovate and improve. Meats Meier adds “This image represents the construction of the future and its ultimate demise. We are all so proud to have him design our sleeve”. The spectacular artwork for The Future In Whose Eyes? has been created by 3D animator and artist Meats Meier – “ Meats has been a friend for years and he came out to see the show in LA and loved it. We wanted something really special and we got it, he is an absolute genius, a visionary and a pioneer. He knows his and mind well and so we nailed the song really quicky”. I really like Periphery and especially love Spencer’s voice, he’s not your usual djent singer, and he’s very much a spiritual man. In late summer 2016 SikTh made their first foray into the US live arena after being invited to join Periphery on tour “ They’re really nice people, everyone on that US tour felt it was the best one they’d been on,” smiles Mikee, it was over those weeks that a plan was hatched “ We actually got him down to R&R Studios in Uxbridge where we made the album. I think we’ve done something special here.” The band have made incredible music, brutal, technically warped mixed with some psychedelic moments. Also swimming into fictional worlds and dreamscapes. I have taken myself to some very dark places, commentated on this world as I see it. From my point I have written all vocals and lyrics. SikTh vocalist & lyricist Mikee W Goodman adds “Personally I feel this is our best album yet. I don’t care how over ambitious it sounds – we want this record to be heard by every metal fan on the planet.” Opacities was the rebirth of SikTh but ‘The Future…’ is our statement – I want this album to define us. We spent over a year writing it and pushed ourselves extremely hard – sometimes too hard. This record feels like the one we’ve always wanted to make. Dan Weller, SikTh’s guitarist and producer proudly states “Ever since SikTh was formed way back at the turn of the century we’ve tried to self improve as musicians and as song writers.
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SikTh, one of the Great British pioneers that have shaped heavy music over the years reveal their first full length studio album since 2006’s classic Death Of A Dead Day. The simpler but more effective style of _Death Of A Dead Day _shows that these Brits are ready to hit the big time.Out now on Millennium Night, the newly created label imprint from Snapper Music, home of Peaceville Records & Kscope.
Thus far, the obvious genius of SikTh has borne fruit that has been both ridiculous and amazing in equal measure. The haunting, mournful ‘In This Light’ _politely declines the obvious option of exploding into a massive wall of sound in favour of a colossal chorus which follows through to the end meanwhile, the exceptionally massive-sounding _‘Where Do We Fall’ has delightfully radio-friendly tinges of country and grunge mixed in with its nu-metal overtones.
Considering these reference points, it’s no surprise that the US market has been put in charge of selling these Watford natives to the world.Ī new side can be seen with SikTh’s version of AOR stadium music with slower, more expansive numbers. This new characteristic found in DOADD _sees the band come across like a heady America-friendly mix of Dillinger Escape Plan’s feather-fingered guitar contorting melded with Korn’s manipulated rhythms, thundering through the bizarre nuances of System of a Down, especially during the rumbling climax of _‘Part Of Your Friction’. Though their trademark abstract melodies, frequent time and genre changes are still more than apparent in songs like ‘Sanguine Seas of Bigotry’, there is a definite shift with this record towards a more straightforward experi-metal style. The artistic, experimental, near self-indulgent style of their debut was a massive feature and is thankfully slightly subdued here, as the sextet seems to attempt a more commercial, or at least more accessible, attempt. This feature is noticeable immediately as the two vocalists, so different in style, screech and stutter then yell and croon over and through each other alongside disgustingly complicated guitar lines in opening track ‘Bland Street Bloom’. Many bands struggle with two singers but Mikee Goodman and Justin Hill have always been deployed equally and have complemented and duelled with each other so perfectly over the past few years. While *SikTh *have returned with the same, often overbearing technical proficiency, with _Death Of A Dead Day _they have created an album that you might actually feel comfortable listening to. Following 2003’s magical display of mathcore complexity, The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild, was always going to be tough.
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