EDENIC PAST
Edenic Past is an avantgarde technical brutal death metal experiment from New York City conceived by members of Krallice during the self-imposed isolation that resulted from the 2020 worldwide COVID pandemic. It is somewhat of a puzzling and thought-provoking thing to reflect on how such an unforeseen and global medical and scientific crisis could lead to such abnormal home experiments by talented and secluded citizens with far too much free time and imagination on their hands… Yet that is where the origin of Edenic Past can be traced back to. As notorious deconstructors / reconstructors of essential musical compounds to create hyper-complex things from mere fragments, Krallice’s Colin Marston and Nicholas McMaster chose the improbable gutter-dwelling subgenre of brutal death metal ("slamming" or not) as their chosen victim for their secluded abhorrent quarantine experiment, to create a turn of events in the genre that remains one of the most astonishing and peculiar things to happen to music in 2020. Despite brutal death metal being one of extreme metal’s most outrageous and often derided styles, it didn’t take long for the notorious and skillful imagination of the musicians involved and for their out of the ordinary technical proficiency to turn the genre literally inside out, eviscerating it into something far more visionary and unpredictable than any of us could have ever imagined. The ensuing uncontrollable mutation that ravaged the essentials of the style would subvert and deconstruct it completely, reinventing and reverse-engineering completely to reanimate it as a highly advanced strain of ultra-brutal futuristic experimental technical death metal unlike anything any of us had ever heard before. Longtime vocalist and friend Paulo Paguntalan of fellow brutal sci-fi bludgeoners Encenathrakh was called in to lend vocal duties while the concept of a political and highly evolved brutal death metal project began to take shape with composition leaning ever so increasingly on the side of dark and surreal atmospheres and themes shifting to dark contemporary history, political and social tragedy, corruption, injustice, and persecution (and often death) of those who seek truth in the murky depths of bureaucratic and political power, particularly of investigative journalists, whistleblowers and political dissidents. Their debut album "Red Amarcord" took final form as a brutal and uncompromising experimental brutal death metal album packed with all the irreplaceable staples of the genre including the neanderthalian breakdowns and outrageous “vocals”, the demented song structures, and the knuckle-dragging brutality that fans have always adored about this genre and its most iconic exponents like Devourment, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, and Visceral Disgorge, but immersed into a futuristic and hallucinogenic architecture of dark lysergic atmospheres, cryptic experimentalism and surreal and oneiric soundscaping. Taking its name from the praised masterpiece from Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, "Red Amarcord" is a highly evolved statement of arrogant and lethal experimentalism within technical brutal death metal that aims at celebrating and remembering the blood-soaked lives of all those brave souls we lost in their fearless quest for truth against injustice and oppression, by deconstructing technical avantgarde experimental music to bend it to the will of feral and mindless brutality, while conversely elevating this primeval brutality to shed its skin and serve a new purpose as enhancer in a new breed of evolved and re-(de)constructed avantgarde extreme music.