German Instrumental Experimental, Avant Prog, Fusion band Anchor and Burden published the official teaser for their new album “Extinction Level,” out on February 02, 2024 via MoonjuNe Records. Stream the teaser through the YouTube player below:
Anchor and Burden is an uncompromising Progressive Avantgarde Doom-Jazz Post-Metal band based in Berlin, Germany, which has their own style of collective instant composition that defies the norms of creation. They create monolithic doom behemoths only to tear them into shreds with boundless energy in the next moment.
The two 8-string touch guitarists Markus Reuter and Alexander Dowerk conjure a wide array of moods with their unique instruments: From ethereal whispers out of sci-fi realms ot cerebral virtuosity that fractures the very psyche unto crushing metal brutality that leaves the listener gasping for their breath.
Bernhard Wöstheinrich weaves a web of synths and self-modulating percussive machinery, an arcane undercurrent beneath the towering monoliths of guitar, as fi sentient space stations traverse the void.
Drummer Asaf Sirkis, the virtuoso master of rhythm, wields his Jazz and Indian polyrhythms not merely to forge a pulsating heartbeat, but also to break up and shift the quartet’s music into unexpected places with his complex hyper Jazz rhythms.
Purchase the album on Bandcamp: https://anchorandburden.bandcamp.com/album/extinction-level
Tracklist:
- Fractured Self
- Body Expansion
- Mutual Assured Destruction video
- Nine Gates to Dominion
- Extinction Phase
- The Crust of this Earth
Lineup:
Markus Reuter / Touch Guitars AU8 and S8, Soundscapes
Alexander Paul Dowerk / Touch Guitars S8
Bernhard Wöstheinrich / Keyboards and Electronics
Asaf Sirkis / Drums and Percussion