{"product_id":"insect-ark-raw-blood-singing-lp-colored","title":"Insect Ark - Raw Blood Singing - LP COLORED","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormed in 2011, INSECT ARK is the Berlin-based duo of American artists Dana Schechter (SWANS) on bass\/lap steel\/synth\/vocals, and drummer\/percussionist Tim Wyskida (KHANATE, BLIND IDIOT GOD).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Raw Blood Singing\" - INSECT ARK's fourth full-length - is the captivating result of a year spent writing. Sharing an obsession with innovation and distillation, the duo merged to create a sonic landscape which vacillates between sensory overload and isolation in a seething void.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the songs on \"Raw Blood Singing\" were penned alone in 2021 by Schechter; they were gutted, reworked and rebirthed when Wyskida joined in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe outer realms of avant-Metal, psych-Doom, and experimental Goth intersect here, but INSECT ARK fiercely refuses the trappings of simple genre categorization. The band weave a lush, bleak, vast and expansive landscape as they move from whispers of synth to a monstrous wall-of-sound via Schechter's blistering lap steel playing, diabolical bass-work and the mammoth, searing power of Wyskida's drums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album title is deeply rooted in the concept of evolution - on both a human and a universal scale – stories of physical beings bound by equal parts unchangeable matter and malleable, shape-shifting energy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music, too, has evolved beyond INSECT ARK's origin as an instrumental band, adding for the first-time the deep honeyed poison of Schechter's vocals. Showing a penchant for crafting haunted and memorable melodies, the contrast of her smoky voice with the spare, brutal music feels both uncomfortably intimate and icy cold.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - North America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53029656166697,"sku":"P-58123-","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0952\/9219\/5113\/files\/Insect-Ark-Raw-Blood-Singing-LP-COLORED-58123-1-1712061265.jpg?v=1778054429","url":"https:\/\/shopusa.season-of-mist.com\/products\/insect-ark-raw-blood-singing-lp-colored","provider":"Season of Mist - North America","version":"1.0","type":"link"}