On April 24th, Indonesian Black Metal band PURE WRATH will unleash their fourth album „Bleak Days Ahead“. Building wonderfully upon the panoramic and poignant melodies of 2022’s wounded „Hymn to the Woeful Hearts“, mastermind Ryo and drummer Yurii Ciel (CAILLEACH CALLING, ex-WHITE WARD) have dialled back the cinematics and upped the dynamics – allowing a varied sound palette including organ, mellotron, throat singing, piano and saxophone to express the sadness in high-functioning depression and the suffocating routines of modern life.
To underscore this, PURE WRATH now unveil the album’s second single, ‚Haven of Echoes‘, accompanied by a haunting video: Pure Wrath – Haven Of Echoes (Official video)
Forewords sung by Dany Tee (LOS MALES DEL MUNDO, THE LEAVING, ACATHEXIS). Moving images by Jaka Sadewo, Yurii Ciel, Dimas Tirta Arwana, and Januaryo Hardy. Assembled by Dimas Tirta Arwana.
Ryo comments on the song and video: „I try portray the daily routine in a highly industrialized world, where humans become instruments of production, detached from their own earthly existence. Machine, human, and polluted nature intertwine, forming a symbolic chaos where life slowly dissolves. Even in moments of rest, surrounded by comfort and familiar sounds, there is no true pause, only the quiet weight of a system that consumes you and turns you into part of its output. To visualize this, Yurii and I recorded footage in an unusual way. Jaka captured my face as the message bearer, and everything was later manipulated and seamlessly combined with found footage by Dimas.
This particular song also has an unusual composition for PURE WRATH. I wrote the riffs differently, changed the way I approach certain chords, manufactured noises by scratching guitar strings, and it is probably the slowest song in our catalogue. Crafted during those flawless witching hours, when I ignored my body’s craving for rest. It serves as a perfect opening for the B-side of the album, where the forewords are violently delivered by Dany Tee over the calming ghost notes performed by Yurii. The song then builds into its main character and concludes with a heavy, low, down-below, sludge-like passage.“
