Today we are pleased to present a new EP by the Rejecter, which was one of the first projects we published. It’s a great opportunity to trace Rejecter‘s musical path and to reflect on its example of paying attention to genre frameworks.
Black metal, however, consists of several distinctive musical elements, but it also exists in an elusive emotional realm. A certain atmosphere, emotion or impression completes the whole picture. This EP is no different, and questions about the framework of the genre are legitimate, as with the announcement of the release of this material, the band itself encourages us to do so.
As we read on their socials: “I’m a lot less attached to the black metal name these days, but you’ll hear its influence in the music…alongside a bunch of strange tangents into related styles that I feel aren’t combined with blackened styles as often. The world has changed a lot and I’ve changed a lot, and I’m no longer certain what to call the style, but we’ve had no change in commitment to antifash ideas.”
And so it is indeed, the ep is 4 compositions, each with a title that begins with “dis,” and each is a successful approach to introducing aesthetics rarely combined with black. There’s heavy metal, there’s prog thrash, there’s rock alternative. The vocals vary greatly and very well from shouting to modulated choruses, and similarly, very different instruments in each track make a black metal impression, once it’s fast drums relentlessly pounding out split seconds, once it guitar spilling black metal atmosphere… The bass guitar often leads the entire piece with a heavy metal groove, laying the foundation for the entire song.
This, along with the excellent cover art, is a great release truly deserving of the term progressive metal a term that, like everyone else, is a bit worn out. There’s a lot going on here, musically as well as ideologically – we have 161% political commitment here, and it resonates in the lyrics as well.
⚔️ REJECTER ⚔️
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