Belgium-based psychedelic metal trio PSYCHONAUT has unveiled a stunning new video for âHope.â The track comes by way of the bandâs Violate Consensus Reality full-length, released in October on Pelagic Records.
One of the most personal and intimate songs the band has ever written, the trio collaborated with French dancer and longtime fan Alice Small, who fully choreographed the beautiful aerial dance video. “Hope” also features additional piano by Wouter Dewit and strings by Reinhard Vanbergen.
Watch PSYCHONAUTâs âHope,â which initially debuted at Metal Injection, at THIS LOCATION.
View PSYCHONAUTâs previously released video for âInterbeingâ HERE, the recordâs title track HERE and âAll Your Gods Have Goneâ HERE.
Violate Consensus Reality will be released on CD, LP, and digital formats. Find preorders at THIS LOCATION.
Likening our present state of separation to âan island on oceans grown, designed to bear unpredictable wrath,â the band accompanies their denunciation by punishing riffs and heavily syncopated rhythms, grabbing you by your guts and taking you on a turbulent journey. Violate Consensus Reality engages the senses in a way that is quite rare for concept albums, it is raw and brutal, unlike the lofty concept albums of yore with their endlessly repeating motifs and needlessly complex song structures. It stands in a long tradition of activism in music, but it also deconstructs this tradition by taking its loud and admonishing tone and providing it with a thoughtful base rooted in philosophy and spirituality.
Violate Consensus is not for the faint hearted, concept-wise but also music-wise as it contains some of the most gnarly riffs and technical playing on any PSYCHONAUT output to date. The record constitutes a wild ride from the breakneck paced riffing of âA Pacifistâs Guide To Violence,â through the undulating neo-classical piano passages of âHopeâ to the glorious finale of âTowards The Edge.â The mantric title track opens with the angelic voice of Stefanie Mannaerts (Brutus) and slowly builds up to erupt in an explosive sermon delivered by Colin H. van Eeckhout (Amenra, CHVE, Absent in Body), the appearance of both gifted musicians affirming PSYCHONAUTâs stature in the Belgian metal scene and beyond.
âAt times, they end up in hypnotically progressive, technically inclined serpentine sections complete with seesawing, burning riffs. At others, they explode sludge into a million grooving fragments and find a broken, mourning fiddle in the debris left behind. Simultaneously, the contrast between these sections and atmospheres instills a sense of inherent, thrilling dynamism often missing from the genre.â â PopMatters
âStaggeringly beautiful, catastrophically heavy, and with a penchant for lifting your mood to the stars: PSYCHONAUTÂ returns with the best metal of the year.â â Everything Is Noise
âPSYCHONAUTâs Unfold the God Man was one of the best albums of 2020, and two years later Violate Consensus Reality allows history to repeat itself. The band remain untouchable in their craft and immeasurable in potential. If this is PSYCHONAUT at their peak then so be it, but if the bar is set to be raised higher, no-one is ready.â â Distorted Sound
âViolate Consensus Reality has impressed. It offers a broader example of the bandâs capabilities and musical depths than a one-track split could, (despite that trackâs own range), and as such reveals PSYCHONAUT in all of their rich, multifaceted glory.â â Wonderbox Metal
âThis is an album with a subtle but definite directional consciousness. Starting (reasonably) straight and heading into darker and more striking territory as it progresses, by the time youâve got as far as track six, âInterbeing,â you surely cannot help being carried along and mesmerized by the narrative trajectoryâ¦â â Metal Digest
âLandscapes and soundscapes morph into an all-enveloping sludgeâ¦â â The Sleeping Shaman
PSYCHONAUT:
Stefan De Graef â guitar/vocals
Thomas Michiels â bass/vocals
Harm Peters â drums
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