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Barren Canyon, the reclusive Canadian act formed by the mysterious duo of multi-instrumentalists Maikan and Absent, re-emerge with A Virulent Steam, their second release for Avantgarde Music after eight years of silence. Whereas 2018’s World of Wounds contrasted bursts of metal with cold ambient passages, Barren Canyon now return transformed, melding their influences into a tempered miasmic haze. Warmer synth tones drift and swell like a toxic fog, diffusing into harsher textures.
Taking the idea of “atmospheric metal” seriously and literally, A Virulent Stream draws both musically and lyrically upon themes of noxious air, suffocation, and the airborne contaminants of industrial society. The very cover picture is a statement in itself, as the band chose “Smoke from the continuously operating steel plants gives Birmingham its
spectacular nighttime red-orange glow” by Leroy Woodson to visually introduce their opus.
Barren Canyon is loosely based in the region of the Canadian Shield, and draws inspiration heavily from the wild places in this region.
The project is the primary concern of Thanat, in collaboration with Maikan (of Circle of Salt fame), both of whom are multi-instrumentalists whose roles within the group are fluid and joined on this album by Camille (of Smohalla, Astral Diadem, Dreams of the Drowned, etc.) on drums.
World of Wounds is an album that deals thematically with the inevitable and impending extinction of the human species (and many others), and our struggles on an ongoing basis to find the strength to continue living with this catastrophic burden
It is also the recognition that the erasure of our species is a part of a larger cycle of eco-systemic adaptation and renewal, and therefore a necessity.
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Barren Canyon is loosely based in the region of the Canadian Shield, and draws inspiration heavily from the wild places in this region.
The project is the primary concern of Thanat, in collaboration with Maikan (of Circle of Salt fame), both of whom are multi-instrumentalists whose roles within the group are fluid and joined on this album by Camille (of Smohalla, Astral Diadem, Dreams of the Drowned, etc.) on drums.
World of Wounds is an album that deals thematically with the inevitable and impending extinction of the human species (and many others), and our struggles on an ongoing basis to find the strength to continue living with this catastrophic burden
It is also the recognition that the erasure of our species is a part of a larger cycle of eco-systemic adaptation and renewal, and therefore a necessity.
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