Pyrrhon + Replicant

TECHNICAL DEATH METAL

Wir freuen uns sehr, das REPLICANT wieder zu uns kommen (zuletzt Arpil 2024 mit Anachronism) und diesmal in Begleitung von einer der spannendsten Bands des Genres: PYRRHON.

Einlass: 18 Uhr

Beginn: 19 Uhr

VVK: hier

AK: 17 €

NO DISCRIMINATION! NO DISCUSSION!

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PYRRHON is an American extreme metal band known for their dizzying fusion of death metal, grindcore, noise rock, and free improvisation. Over the course of a 17-year career, they have earned a reputation as one of the most intense and innovative heavy music acts in the world. Their freewheeling instrumental interplay, grimly poetic lyrics, nightmarish visual aesthetic, and sheer aggression have secured them a seemingly permanent place on the genre’s cutting edge.

Formed in 2008 after a chance meeting on a New York City subway platform, Pyrrhon released debut EP (2008’s FEVER KINGDOMS) and LP (2011’s AN EXCELLENT SERVANT, BUT A TERRIBLE MASTER) before signing with the legendary Relapse Records for their landmark sophomore effort, 2014’s THE MOTHER OF VIRTUES. Pyrrhon began to tour more extensively in this album’s aftermath, traveling regularly around the United States and visiting Europe for the first time. They released two EPs during this period: 2015’s grind-inspired GROWTH WITHOUT END and 2016’s more improvisational RUNNING OUT OF SKIN.

After parting ways with Relapse, Pyrrhon signed with tastemaking death metal label Willowtip Records for their third LP, 2017’s WHAT PASSES FOR SURVIVAL. This album saw Pyrrhon push their physical abilities to their absolute limit, and marked their first recording under the guidance of master engineer Colin Marston (GORGUTS, KRALLICE, DYSRHYTHMIA, etc.), who has tracked and mixed each Pyrrhon recording since. Their fourth LP, 2020’s sprawling ABSCESS TIME, veered in a more exploratory direction, emphasizing psychedelic vamps and textural improvisation. Released during the terrifying peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, ABSCESS TIME was followed by limited touring in 2021.

After a period of reflection and soul-searching, Pyrrhon released EXHAUST - their fifth LP overall and third with Willowtip - in 2024. Inspired by the pervasive burnout afflicting their home country, Pyrrhon delivered their most concise and direct work yet on EXHAUST, without compromising the disorienting atmosphere or technical ferocity that characterizes their catalog. EXHAUST conducts an unsparing musical examination of the many ways modern life in America grinds humans down to paste, with an album cover (created by longtime collaborator Caroline Harrison) to match. It has been met with the most enthusiastic praise of any Pyrrhon recording to date.

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Hailing from New Jersey within the northeastern American megalopolis, extreme metal merchants REPLICANT come from a region saturated with brutality. Replicant set themselves apart from the pack by honing their brand of unorthodox death metal laden with technicality, dissonance, and atmosphere, marinated in an unhealthy dousing of groove. At times progressive, but unapologetically regressive, the forward-thinking collective have been twisting the concept of technical death metal since their inception in 2014.

After having smashed prevailing standards for the style with their unique approach on their highly lauded previous release, Replicant take things further still with their new full length Infinite Mortality, released under the Transcending Obscurity banner in 2024, finding ways to make their music even more convoluted and impactful while retaining their trademark dissonant and catchy sound. They've found ways to add new aspects to it without hampering the momentum, constantly changing things up with the listener's body still lashing uncontrollably. The songs veer off in their own unexpected, thrilling directions while upholding the inherent semblance of groove, only to reconnect later with greater force.