Wisent

As the most heavy band in DevilDuck’s lineup, WISENT’s music could be described as Post-Hardcore. This seems to be a good fit for the Leipzig-based band - a German wall of sound meets an Irish vocalist spitting his emotions out to us. But not only does the genre feel new for DevilDuck, it’s also the first concept album released via the Hamburg label.

“The Acceptance. The Sorrow” is the title of the ambitious and heavy-sounding debut album of singer Stephen Lyons, bassist Morris Duff, guitar player Mathias Bauer and drummer Oliver Ruß. The first half of the album, “The Acceptance”, is the more hopeful part which accepts the inevitable while “The Sorrow” describes the suffering experienced during the loss of loved ones, how it feels and the distance you accumulate from once-close friends o (...) Mehr anzeigenr family members.

As “The Acceptance. The Sorrow” will be released on vinyl, the two different sides of it are not only different in a musical and lyrical context, they are also different sound-wise. Both halves of the album were recorded and mixed separately as WISENT wants the listener to have different feelings and perspectives while listening to this challenging opus.

In 2020, the band released their debut EP “Seething” which will already give you an idea about WISENT’s musical direction in their early stages, even if they’ve all played and are still playing in other projects. The WISENT sound wasn’t yet where it is now, as good things and creating your unique musical vision take some time and the band took this time to create such a complex album which wants to be discovered. But as the European bison WISENT is pushing things forward without any compromises or as burnyourears describes:

“The band's mission is to captivate listeners through honesty and desperation. They use raw vocals, as well as melodic and heavy riffs. The vocals are pretty rough for Post-Hardcore and create an interesting contrast to the sometimes quite dreamy instrumentals. This sets the band apart from some of the more slick bands of the genre.”

"Wisent is a mean and dynamic four-man post-hardcore band out of Leipzig. Their music feels like a by-product of transporting Chuck Reagan’s brain into a cybernetic exoskeleton programmed to communicate exclusively through gruff shouts and Saosin guitar licks. It’s a brief but intense and sincere sounding record that we think you’ll really dig.“ - New Noise Magazine Weniger anzeigen