Australian experimental black metal/drone/dark ambient project Snaw stream sophomore album »The Skin Dancer«

Fremantle, Australia based experimental black metal/drone/dark ambient project Snaw just dropped sophomore album »The Skin Dancer« on September 21st, 2024.

Tracklist:
01. Sand
02. A Slaved Stalker
03. The Black Plains
04. The Boiling Sea
05. The Skin Dancer
06. Columns Of Smoke
07. The Low Trail
08. The Black Plains II

Formed in Perth, Australia by Jon Vayla (Boltgun) in 2022. Snaw follows a vision of musical collaborations, alternating black metal/post metal with dark ambient/experimental work. Influences from Marduk, Ulver, Swans, to Atrium Carceri, Lustmord and Beyond Dawn. Collaborators all have unique styles, creating a musical and thematic synthesis appealing to fans of ominous, avantgarde music.

Vayla is joined by Robin Stone (drums) and Andrew Trevenen (vocals) on »The Skin Dancer«. The three Australians unleashing a document of existential terror, combining dark mythology and Cormac McCarthy-inspired scenes of horror and desolation. Vayla’s baritone vocals book-ending the more ferocious tracks such as the title track and »Columns Of Smoke«. The final track of the album, »The Black Plains II« provides a fog covered descent into a primitive world.

The artworks by Marc Potts are fitting companions to the first two Snaw albums, like ancient stories recalled around fires at the end of everything.

The album is available as high quality 24bit 96kHz wav files

2023 – 2024
Recorded by Jon Vayla and Ron Pollard at Bad God Motel and Studio Sleepwalkers Dread.
Mixed by Ron Pollard.
Mastered by Jon Vayla at Bad God Motel.
Drums recorded by Robin Stone at R.Stone studio
Drone guitar on »The Low Trail« by Lachlan Dale

Jon Vayla – Guitar, Synths, Bass, Vocals on »Sand« and »The Low Trail«
Vocals – Andrew Trevenen

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well