After six years between new releases, So Hideous returns with a new album called None But a Pure Heart Can Sing, scheduled for release on Dec. 3 via Silent Pendulum Records.
The orchestral post-metal project, led by Brandon Cruz, plus longtime collaborators Christopher Cruz and Etienne Vazquez, explores similar but new terrain on the upcoming follow-up to Laurestine (2015, Prosthetic Records).
Brandon Cruz explains:
I think we still have the foundation of what we laid before, being influenced largely by Japanese post-metal bands Mono and Envy, and composers such as Arvo Part and Max Richter. We wanted more rhythm this time and we expanded outward to include influences from Fela Kuti and Tony Allen's Afrobeat percussion, James Brown's horn section, and the balladry of Otis Redding and Sam Cooke. It was also nice to finally experiment a bit with more Penderecki-style tone clusters and glissando on the more dissonant sections.
Track list:
1) Souvenir (Echo)
2) The Emerald Pearl
3) Intermezzo
4) Motorik Visage
5) From Now (Til the Time We're Still)
