The Design Abstract: With creative blend of industrial and orchestra…..

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Today we at Permafrost offers symphonic/industrial melodeath from the band The Design Abstract and their new album Technoteism. The track The Apotheosis

Out on January 29, 2021, Technotheism is the second full-length album from the band who also have two EPs in their catalogue. For those already familiar with their music, the creative blend of industrial and orchestra continue in Technotheism, albeit being even more technical and expansive than the previous releases. The band maintains that this will be the flagship album for them. The track Return,

The singles The Apotheosis and The Return are respectively the second oldest and second newest tracks on the album, and the bulk of the album lands somewhere in the middle in terms of writing and sound. The Apotheosis is two minutes packed full of everything The Design Abstract is capable of, and The Return is a more open and whimsical track revisiting some of the elements that made the earlier releases work. The band remarks on the singles:

«They were carefully chosen to show the scope of the album at large. The Apotheosis was written with the explicit purpose of showing off everything the band could do in one two minute whirlwind. The synth in this track is something very unique and indicative of the character of the band, and the structure is a fresh take on the genre».

«The Return is a triumphant song, littered with innovative, instrument layering and crunchy synth sounds. We really wanted to turn the contrast up so to speak: the guitar work is noticeably more death metal, but the vocals and orchestral passages are more soaring than ever. The outro features a notably unique synth solo, followed by the anthemic chorus».

The Design Abstract crosses all the lines of the musical spectrum, darting from harsh industrial, soaring orchestral, melodic death complete with guttural screams contrasted with crystal clean singing finished off with a generous serving of synth. Each element is worked into the songs in a unique and comprehensive way.

The Design Abstract is recommended for fans of Septicflesh, Scar Symmetry, and Dimmu Borgir and Technotheism is probably suitable for a variety of music fans.

The Design Abstract is a two-piece sci-fi-themed symphonic melo-death band from Ontario, Canada consisting of Logan Mayhem (guitar, songwriting, synth programming), and Voiicide (bass, vocals, scoring, additional sampling/programming). The band formed with a single goal: to create a blend of industrial-influenced symphonic metal that had never been done before. Since the debut album Emanate in 2017, The Design Abstract has sought to shed the antiquated tendencies of orchestral metal bands, instead pushing far into the future conceptually and lyrically.

 With each subsequent release (Corrupt in 2019 and Esoteric in 2020), the band pushed further into melodic death metal territory, brandishing more comprehensive riffs, technical drum writing, and more guttural vocals, but never lost the industrial-electronic edge or the massive and dramatic orchestral passages. The accumulation of this sound is their latest album Technotheism due out Jan 29, 2021.

A grandiose display of musicality, technicality, and narrative, the sophomore full length is a monumental 13-track work of symphonic melodic death metal that tells a cyberpunk story of a group of rebels fighting to regain control of Earth. It ranges from technical guitar work to atmospheric electronic passages, and just about everything in between. One thing you’ll notice about Technotheism is how it’s structured and how it all flows together. The pattern of the types of tracks, the order, and their function was very carefully planned out in a way that few albums are. 

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