{"product_id":"lychgate-precipice-lp-gatefold-coloured","title":"Lychgate - Precipice - LP Gatefold Coloured","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sublime 4th full-length from UK avant-Black\/Death Metal band LYCHGATE advances the kinetic potency of their 2020 DMP-debut EP, \"Also sprach Futura\", to a frightening level of mind-mangling intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Precipice\" is progressive Extreme Metal plummeting inside a black hole: scorching, twisted and transfixing. The band have upped both the dystopic prog-Death quotient and their sense of experimentation, moving with formidable, mechanised poise and a surrealist's sense of dread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLYCHGATE layer fusion riffs, leads and rhythms into skewed melodic entanglements which erupt into strident bludgeon - balefully contrasted with spacious, keyboard-led, classical\/jazz-inflected passages rich with tension-heavy dynamics. The players bursting forth in a rush of devastatingly claustrophobic vocals and finely-honed avant-Black Metal mastery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving literary, philosophical, and cinematic influences, \"Precipice\" is conceptually based on E. M. Forster's \"The Machine Stops\" (1909) - a story of humanity's underground existence and total dependence on a god-like machine - and also draws from Plato's 'allegory of the cave', H. G. Wells' \"A Story of the Days to Come\", and T. S. Eliot's \"The Waste Land\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459556303191,"sku":"P-171705-","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6500\/8471\/files\/Lychgate-Precipice-LP-Gatefold-Coloured-171705-1-1761660431.jpg?v=1778310113","url":"https:\/\/shop.season-of-mist.com\/products\/lychgate-precipice-lp-gatefold-coloured","provider":"Season of Mist - International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}