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Nightmare Withdrawals
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When you think about New Zealand heavy music, what bands do you think about? For hardcore and metalcore lovers,
Antagonist A.D immediately comes to mind. For rock, there’s the mighty
Shihad. Or there’s
Alien Weaponry, whose groove-metal brings traditional Māori culture and language to the foreground. There are obviously other bands I’m forgetting or skimming past in this assessment, but one more extreme-metal NZ act to be aware of is the wordy
On third album ‘
Blindfolded And Led To The Woods (who I’ll refer to as
Blindfolded from here on out) really come into their own. The bedroom-boomy production of 2017’s ‘
New Zealand progressive death metal destroyers Blindfolded and Led to the Woods have released an unsettling music video for their new
Nightmare Withdrawals track, The Inevitable Fate of the Universe. And you may remember them as the band that terrorized a local kids TV show back in 2010 with their abrasive brand of crushing extremity, which makes this all the more exciting that their first new album in four years is approaching fast. The Inevitable Fate of the Universe is a clinic in chaos downtuned, earth-heaving grooves are halted by heart-palpitating palm mutes and screeching pick scrapes, the madness accentuated by the sickly yellow hue and dim-lit setting the band plays in. That unsettling vibe we mentioned is invoked by two mysterious, suit-clad figures whose faces are cloaked in a white cloth. There s no other way to say it it s just