Madrid’s AVERSIO HUMANITATIS follow-up 2020’s white-hot „Behold the Silent Dwellers“ with another stunning slice of unrelenting, modernist and oft-dissonant Black Metal. Third full-length „To Become the Endless Static“ finds the band teeth-clenched, razor-sharp, galvanised with self-belief and fortified by a characteristically immaculate production from the band’s own Simón Da Silva (CANCER, MARTRÖÐ, SELBST).
Tracklist:
01. Long Stretch the Shadows
02. To Become the Endless Static
03. Blackened Mold Marrow
04. Strange Angles
05. The White Noise is Calling
06. Collapsing into the Resonance
Guitarist, songwriter and producer Simón comments on „To Become the Endless Static„: „The songwriting process for this album was certainly arduous. I can’t say it was something fluid; so many riffs and almost full songs were thrown into the trash in the process. Some songs came out very naturally, while others were much harder to shape. I guess it’s always like that, but at some points I felt a bit lost and kind of hating the album, I may have become too obsessed with certain expectations or with an idea of what the album „had to“ be, instead of simply letting things take their own course, which is what finally happened in the end. Now I can say I fucking love it. Half of the songs were composed by me at home or in the studio. For the other half, I brought several structural riff ideas that we later developed together in the rehearsal space. The lyrics were also shaped there, as Alex has an amazing ability to write on the spot.“
Check the title track including a fitting video clip for a first glimpse into the forthcoming album on DMP’s YouTube channel – a relentless exploration of psychological erosion and collapsing identity, forged with crushing precision: Aversio Humanitatis – To Become the Endless Static (Official video)
Vocalist & bassist Alex states about song and video: „We chose this song because we feel it’s the most representative of both the lyrical concepts of the album and the compositional formulas you can find in it. This track, which gives the title to our new work, was the second one to be composed back in 2021 and though it has been a slow-burn process that evolved through the years we feel it is the most fitting one to be unveiled first. This album explores ideas of physical and mental degradation, of loss and grieving both from an external point of view and from a person going through it. Aesthetically I felt the analogue quality of a lost and degraded signal, the texture of an imperfect reproduction of something that has been remembered many times until it starts fluttering and fading perfectly encapsulates this concept. From the technical point of view this is also mirrored. I started with a perfect image captured with modern cameras and edited it as a regular music video. After having a clean version of said video I began an arduous process of running it through a signal chain of visual synthesizers, analogue glitch generators and CRT screens which then were recaptured and re-processed many more times, finally landing on what you can see as the final product. This way the signal, a collection of perfect memories, disintegrates and becomes the endless static around us.„
