American one-man atmospheric doom/drone/post-metal band Escaping Aghartha released new album »Consumption Without End«
American one-man atmospheric doom/drone/post-metal band Escaping Aghartha stream new three-track album, »Consumption Without End«, which was released on January 1st, 2024.
Stream »Consumption Without End« now on Spotify and other digital platforms!
Tracklist:
01. Consumption
02. Without
03. End
“A mixture of doom/post-metal, dark ambient, and drone, Escaping Aghartha strives to create evocative pieces of memorable music.”
Escaping Aghartha is a one-man band from North Carolina, USA. It was formed as a dark ambient project during 2016, but in 2018 it then transitioned into an atmospheric doom/black/post-metal band.
Similar bands include Clouds, Mono, Primitive Man, Thantifaxath, Neurosis, Ruins Of Beverast, Sadness, and Evoken.
Escaping Aghartha places an emphasis on high contrast between musical themes, both “abusing and soothing the listener”, never letting the listening experience become repetitive. By including trumpets, violin, piano, and chanting, Escaping Aghartha creates textured and unorthodox soundscapes.
Avery Dart comments: “»Consumption Without End« is a concept album about the negative environmental impacts of consumerism and all which it entails.
Humanity mines, drills, and blasts the earth to gain access to finite raw resources, scarring the land and obliterating ecosystems in the process. Then factories process the materials and create products, generating waste and burning fossil fuels. Those products are packaged and shipped, usually in plastic, which leads to further burning of fossil fuels during transportation. Then the consumer gets their item…and eventually, those products become old or we use them up, and we discard what remains – be it a wrapper, or a container, or a dead battery, or the item itself if we become bored with it. Once discarded, the items go to a landfill or even worse, wind up in our oceans or ecosystems. If these items are made of plastic, as so many of our material goods are these days, they break down into microplastics which harm wildlife and humans alike.
Our way of existing and our obsession with material objects is toxic and is leading to environmental decline. We are sacrificing the future health of the planet and of humanity for short-term profits or short-term happiness from buying things which make us “happy”.
Digital release only.”
Album art by Perisynthion.
Line-up:
Marco Pansa – additional vocals
Avery Dart – everything else
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well