Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass
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Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass

  • Labels Crucial Blast
  • Product Code: CD Digipak
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New York based outfit Epistasis first appeared in 2012 with a self-titled album on The Path Less Traveled Records. Those early recordings revealed an interesting confluence of sounds, their often difficult, jagged arrangements traced with elements of prog rock and noise rock, black metal and avant jazz, and even the influence of modern classical composers such as Béla Bartók, Arvo Pärt and György Ligeti. Even then in embryonic form, Epistasis were hinting at the sort of abrasive, atmospheric metal that we're continually obsessed with over at Crucial Blast, but it is with their second release (and first for Crucial Blast) "Light Through Dead Glass" that the band has re-emerged with a much more focused and fleshed-out sound.

Now a quartet comprised of Amy Mills on vocals and trumpet (who has also contributed trumpet parts on new albums from Castevet and Psalm Zero), Alex Cohen (drums), Kevin Wunderlich (guitar) and Doug Berns (bass), Epistasis delivers a dark new vision of atmospheric dissonance and surrealistic heaviness with this six-song mini album recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, Unsane).

CD comes in a matte-finish four-panel digipack with a twelve-page booklet, featuring artwork from Epistasis's Amy Mills.

Epistasis - Light Through Dead Glass