Arzenik Returns With An Aggresive Metal Industrial Opus
A grueling new single from Arzenik delivers a blistering cross of thrash, death, and blackened metal, with elements of grindcore and plenty of industrial, looking just beneath the surface in the form of vast underbellies that give the song depth and a certain kind of darkness that feels almost haunting.
The track is built with immense percussion that doesn't just sit in the pocket, but instead breathes life into the song itself. The drumming pushes the boundaries and lets the guitar work feed off of it so that you have something absolutely massive and sonically driving while still being able to deliver a message of strife and struggle.
The guitar work is also really intense. The entire song is actually quite intense. It focuses on massive riffs, drop tunings, and a cinematic backbone, while honing in on inner struggles of the mind.
The song talks of an everlasting pain that seems to not go away, and whether it's mental or situational, it's something that we can all relate to.
Arzenik is really able to channel all those raw emotions and filter them through his music, so you have something authentic which you can definitely hear throughout the tracks unfolding.
The guitar riffs and rhythm bounce at times, giving this pounding soundscape, and the energy is thriving from start to finish.
I feel like the energy is a huge element of why this song works the way it does.
All the instrumentation is super robust and right in your face. The riffs and even tones of those guitars are boisterous and completely relentless, but the vocals follow suit.
Those vocals are absolutely massive and somehow add even more drive to the already super driven single.
There are certain segments where the double kicks come in and just drill. Other times, as I mentioned before, the song gives you this huge bouncing sort of groove that makes you think of going to see a show and jumping as high as you can right at the edge of where the mosh pit breaks out.
This track definitely carries with it that aggressive overtone and attitude that goes right alongside the elements of catchiness that it displays as well.
The industrial elements don't just come from the spacious undertones of the song, but also certain synthesizers that are used.
The synths are a huge portion of why the song comes through with the textural layers that it does.
You can clearly hear classic industrial influences shining through as you listen to the song, but of course, all the metal overtones are more on the Forefront, especially at the beginning of the track.
During that little bridge section of the track before it changes, the synthesizer is on its own, and during that moment, you can hear how the song may have even been derived from that synth riff in the first place.
You hear the synthesizer riff, the guitars start coming in on top of that and almost following right along, and you start to understand how the song may have been built.
There are also these kind of synth pads that are almost always there as well. Those are the elements that have the vastness. Those are the things that bring a bit of a cinematic feel and drifting tone underneath all of the aggressiveness.
This works amazingly because of the premise of the song being about pain. The song is about inner pain that just won't go away, and while you want it to go away, you're dealing with it all at once.
The aggressive emotion is displayed through a lot of the metal overtones, but the vastness and the drifting underbelly are the sadness. This, of course, is the emotion that goes hand in hand with anger.
I just found it really cool how the artist was able to display those two emotional elements instrumentally as well.
You can clearly hear that there was a lot of attention paid to the arrangement, the composition, and of course the mix of the song as well.
Everything is super well balanced, and the sentiment and energy of the song come through exactly the way it was meant to.
This is absolutely not a song I would miss, especially if you love robust, deep-rooted metal along with Industrial elements laced throughout, and a song you can just get swallowed up by.
This track gives you all of that.
It is called "Destiny Control", and I suggest you listen to it with headphones on or nice and loud.
There's a lot to chew on here, and you don't want to miss out on it.
Dive into this track right now, and you'll hear exactly where I'm coming from.