From where I’m standing, White Void and “Anti” might cause all these emotions in the fan as well as they did in me. In a way the band reminds a lot Marillion’s 1980’s Prog Rock and at the same time the fan will feel some touches of 1980s gothic rock. Two completely different influences that theoretically couldn’t work nicely but, in fact, work pretty fine in the real world of “Anti.” To this burning cauldron White Void added some Metal influences as the fan can check it out in “The Shovel and the Cross” and “Where You Go, You’ll Bring Nothing,” a pretty awkward combination, if you ask me. Those tracks make a wondrous combination of the emotional power Metal features deliver and the sweet and gentle features and textures Prog Rock means. I keep on trying to recall which band I know that sounds similar to White Void. Sorry, the right question should be to which band White Void are sonically related. I guess the keyboards and the vocals are the elements that bring them near all those bands I quoted before, but, I guess, the general feeling is somewhere in the mid-1980s and all its tradition. The way guitars and keyboards are arranged in “There Is No Freedom But the End” and in all the album is really something to mention. In certain ways, they have the same prominance.
White Void aren’t the band that I would love, I agree with that. My fan may be very curious on why I liked them so much. The answer is not that easy. I guess that the combination of all those elements sparked my attention to the band. To me the band sounds unique even though I’m able to find many references to their music. However, references are just references and the way they are mixed tells everything about their sonancy. The chords are the same to everyone, the way they are combined makes all the difference. And the music.
White Void “Anti” will be released on March 12th via Nuclear Blast Records.
Track Listing:
- Do. Not. Sleep
- There Is No Freedom But the End
- Where You Go, You’ll Bring Nothing
- The Shovel and the Cross
- This Apocalypse Is For You
- All Chains Rust, All Men Die
- The F*cking Violence of Love
- The Air Was Thick With Smoke
Watch “The Shovel and the Cross” official music video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!
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