Sign me up for a concept album inspired by the Tarot’s most intriguing cards: The Magician, The Devil, The Star, The High Priestess, The Moon, The Hanged Man, The Tower, The Hermit, and Justice.
Embodying this ambitious concept is Arkanum (out on April 12th) from Mexico’s Spit on Your Grave.
With Elizabeth Castillo on bass, Caro Saturni on lead guitar, Kenichi Om on rhythm guitar, Nico Garza on drums, and Marlene Muñoz on vocals, Spit on Your Grave have been relentlessly assaulting eardrums with their unique blend of brutal and melodic metal since 2012
On the album, the band says,
“This conceptual album tells the process of a mental detox, talks about an internal struggle to restore your inner self, where your demons surface and everything you believed in is questioned, that moment when you realize that for years you have followed someone else’s lead. You’ve had enough and decide to leave everything behind. It’s about losing yourself by being influenced by someone else and the struggle to wake up from that ‘reality’. Centering the lyrics in this inner fight with yourself, involving depression, anxiety, mistrust, feeling unfairly judged by everyone and having no help around.”
The eight dynamic tracks on Arkanum deliver a relentless barrage of sound from start to finish. With Marlene’s commanding guttural growls weaving seamlessly between thunderous riffs, bombastic blast beats, and spine-tingling breakdowns, Arkanum not only shows Spit on Your Grave’s technical proficiency but their bone crushing versatility.
Arkanum is both heavy and melodic, brutal and beautiful.
Artwork by Caelan Stokkermans Arts
