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Embraced

by Surachai

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Tom Colquhoun
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Tom Colquhoun Surachai has a really micro approach to making harsh electronic metal. In the temporary guise of black metal, this album is instead an exploration of textures, creaks and grinds and drum hits are flattened and compressed to make an album that's difficult to picture as a whole, being more a collection of microscopic moments. It's like a long canvas in a narrow hallway, you can't take it all in but as you progress you find yourself pressed up against each fresh wave of sound. Favorite track: Sentinel.
Deryn L.
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Deryn L. One of the most emotional black metal albums I've come across, as well as one of the most ambitious, with tracks going well beyond 8 minutes. It's refreshing to hear an album that isn't afraid of being well produced instead of going for a more lo-fi sound like most black metal albums. The mix of traditional instrumentation and sections of experimental electronic noise keeps the album (in a black metal sense) refreshingly varied, if you can look past the length. Favorite track: Ancestral.
Clark
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Clark Great concept executed beautifully. Not quite like anything else, even if comparisons to artists like Wolves in the Throne Room can be made. Favorite track: Sentinel.
james mcnulty
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james mcnulty pulsating hypnotic mastery of atmosphere. Favorite track: Sentinel.
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1.
Ancestral 15:08
Ancestral, Transient, Formless, Infinite As The Void Traced By Darkness, Lensing, Subtraction A Prism Of Impossible Malignant Purpose Free To Move Without Hindrance Prying Its Tendrils In Luring Life From It's Depth Of Persistence Calculating, Indifferent, Magnificent Perfect Alignment Pristine Orientation The Void Between The Stars Easing Across Parallels, Reigning all Fueled By Decimation Staring Endlessly Prowling Openly, Leaving Trails Of Decay Suffocating Atmospheres Blinding Heat Oceans Of Ash Bowing To Certainty Faltering Nebulae Scheming Gravity Imploding Planets Lakes Of Fire The Light That Will Never Come Back
2.
Sentinel 10:16
An Invisible Web Its Countless Threads Untouched By Limitation Clawing At The Gates Of The Sky A Soft Balance A Controlled Desperation Twisting Iron Winds Worlds Of Deafening Ghosts Spilling It's Womb In A Vibrating Silence
3.
Surrender 08:24
The Promise The Chance A Whisper A Glance A Secret Of Hope Balance unhinges From The Cycle's Clutch Folding Upon Itself Expanding It's Depths Taking To The Void Amongst New Skies Flickering Out Amongst The Dust Inwards Towards Salvation Defiantly, Life Grasped To Hope A Kiss, A Tear, A Final Embrace

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released April 23, 2013

Charlie Werber - Drums
Shane Prendiville - Soprano & Alto Guitars
Andrew Markuszewski - Tenor Guitar
Tom Kelly - Acoustic Bass
Alessandro Cortini - Buchla Easel
Richard Devine - Sound Design
Surachai - Tenor Guitars, Programming, Vocals, Synths, DSP

Drums Recorded with Greg Panciera
Mastered By Shawn Hatfield
Artwork by Caspar Newbolt

Written by Surachai Sutthisasanakul

Lyrics
1. Ancestral
Ancestral, Transient, Formless, Infinite As The Void
Traced By Darkness, Lensing, Subtraction
A Prism Of Impossible Malignant Purpose

Free To Move Without Hindrance
Prying Its Tendrils In
Luring Life From It's Depth Of Persistence
Calculating, Indifferent, Magnificent

Perfect Alignment Pristine Orientation
The Void Between The Stars
Easing Across Parallels, Reigning all
Fueled By Decimation
Staring Endlessly
Prowling Openly, Leaving Trails Of Decay

Suffocating Atmospheres
Blinding Heat
Oceans Of Ash
Bowing To Certainty

Faltering Nebulae
Scheming Gravity
Imploding Planets
Lakes Of Fire

The Light That Will Never Come Back

2. Sentinel
An Invisible Web
Its Countless Threads

Untouched By Limitation
Clawing At The Gates Of The Sky

A Soft Balance
A Controlled Desperation
Twisting Iron Winds
Worlds Of Deafening Ghosts
Spilling It's Womb
In A Vibrating Silence

3. Surrender
The Promise
The Chance
A Whisper
A Glance

A Secret Of Hope

Balance unhinges
From The Cycle's Clutch
Folding Upon Itself
Expanding It's Depths

Taking To The Void Amongst New Skies
Flickering Out Amongst The Dust
Inwards Towards Salvation
Defiantly, Life Grasped To Hope

A Kiss, A Tear, A Final Embrace

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Surachai Chicago, Illinois

Surachai’s repertoire pivots from full ensemble black metal outfits to solo synthesizer explorations that have an avant garde fearlessness. A professional sound designer, mixer, and location audio engineer, the Chicago-based musician and producer brings a technical expertise to a curious artistic output that makes every upcoming release unpredictable. ... more

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