Be prepared for music for the true aventurer. It is extreme music. It is not Industrial. It is not Death Metal. It is not Black Metal. It is The Amenta.

So state the band on their own website and it’s true. Definitely not for the faint hearted and not even for the majority of the metal hordes. This is specialized, head-fucking, sonic battery.

For the past 11 years, the institution known as The Amenta has steadfastly refused to do anything by the book. With a strong desire for experimentation and the avant-garde, and a sadistic pre-occupation with all things ugly, decayed and rotten, the band have consistently released challenging and ground breaking material beginning with Occasus, through to nOn, the multimedia landmark that was Vo1D and the digital EP Chokehold finally arriving with this years, Flesh Is Heir.

Flesh… isn’t merely a record, it’s an experience. Huge sculptures of sound built up from decayed choir loops, percussion and the dissonant rearrangement of traditional rock instruments (drums, bass, guitars) lead to an overall more organic but also terrifying journey into a realm of consciousness that is a ‘constant war in the human psyche between the faction that desires obliteration and the faction that struggles in the mud.’

At once, ugly and beautiful, organic yet electronic, lightening fast but also crushingly slow, and always dark as pitch.

The Amenta will perform four visually intense and aurally damaging shows at the venues below this July. To sample just what that will be like, take a deep breath then check out the album, video and photo links below and prepare yourself for what will follow…

The Amenta 2013 Australian Tour

with special guests Ruins

Thursday 11 July – Crowbar, Brisbane (with Vyrion, Kyzer Soze)
Ticket info HERE
Friday 12 July – Bald Faced Stag, Sydney (with Ouroboros, Dead River Runs Dry, Host)
Ticket info HERE
Saturday, 13 July – Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne (with Ouroboros, Whoretopsy, Dead River Runs)
Ticket info HERE
Sunday 14 July: The Brisbane Hotel, Hobart (with Departe, Dead River Runs Dry)
Ticket info HERE

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