Norwegian Blackgazers AVAST, whose debut full-length album “Mother Culture” is set to hit the streets on Dark Essence Records on the 26th October, have released a second single from the album, as well as an accompanying video by Ivar Vasstveit, about which the band has this to say:
“An Earnest Desire” is a tale about human ambition and how our desire to achieve great accomplishments often ends in catastrophe. The video emphasizes that ambition, and also shows how small and helpless we may appear in our interaction with nature and all of its forces.
The video, for the track “An Earnest Desire”, can be seen below and at https://youtu.be/VkNuu9XSOHw
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Whilst the single itself can be heard at, and purchased from, the following: http://smarturl.it/AnEarnestDesire
Hailing from Stavanger, Norway, AVAST consists of Hans Olaf Myrvang (AGENDA) on bass and vocals, Trond Salte (AGENDA) and Ørjan Lund (NAG) on guitars, and Stian Steensnæs (LIK) on drums. Together they fuse the aesthetics of black metal with the atmospherics of post-rock, in order to create a soundscape that is both breathtaking and mesmerizing, and whose lyrical themes are not centred around the usual black metal topics, but tend more towards a philosophical and poetical take on social and environmental issues.
With artwork by Ole Nymoen, the track-listing for Mother Culture is as follows:
- Mother Culture
- The Myth
- Birth of Man
- The World Belongs to Man
- An Earnest Desire
- Man Belongs to the World
AVAST have been confirmed to appear at next year’s Inferno Festival , and other upcoming live dates for include:
12 Oct: Tunghørt 2018, Folken, Stavanger, Norway
24 Nov: Vaterland, Oslo, Norway
“Mother Culture” will be released in CD, Digital and limited edition white vinyl formats, and is now available to pre-order from:
Bandcamp: https://avastband.bandcamp.com
Dark Essence Records: https://www.darkessencerecords.no/artists/avast/
US Webshop: https://darkessence.aisamerch.com
More information about AVAST can be found on their Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/avastband/
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avastband/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/avastband
Bandcamp: http://avastband.bandcamp.com
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/avastband
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/57bnwC7iMKBRlWnMF9lzmy
Band Contact: avastband2016@gmail.com
Booking : siloenbooking@gmail.com
Dark Essence contact: post@karismarecords.no
Dark Essence Records: www.darkessencerecords.no
Dark Essence Records Bandcamp: http://karismarecords.bandcamp.com/
Dark Essence on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/darkessencerecords
Dark Essence on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkEssenceRecords/videos
Dark Essence Records Webshop: https://www.darkessencerecords.no/shop/
Dark Essence Webshop North America: https://darkessence.aisamerch.com
Dark Essence Records KlickTrack (digital only): shop.klicktrack.com/karismadarkessencerecords
Dark Essence SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/dark-essence-records
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