New album, “Abiram”, out on November 20th!
Speaking about the album’s concept, guitarist/vocalist Severin Mäker comments: ”SARAKSH is a dead planet. Bleak, dismal. Its surface denies any life, banishing any creature, burying them beneath nothing but burned crust, sand, agony and indignation. In this utterly inhospitable wasteland a wanderer lives out another chapter of his struggle for survival. This has once again been made to music by SARASKH and preserved for posterity with the new upcoming record ABIRAM. So now you can listen to the first impressions of this magnificent story.”
Severin Mäker gave birth to the dystopian/sci-fi influenced project in 2018, counting three releases so far, with ‘Moloch: refactored’ (2023) marking a plunge into a more conceptual approach into the themes of SARAKSH. Contrasting its brutalist title track with three concentrated tracks ‘Drive’, ‘R.T.W.Y.A.’ and ‘Eden in Waste’, the quartet delivers by navigating between groove-oozing and nerve-crushing riffs, whilst chaotic outbursts are eerily surrounded by psychotic, then liberating chants, just to be completely resolved in proliferated guitar layers and atmospheric, synth-driven passages.
Being influenced by the likes of Converge, Ulcerate, Totem Skin and Omega Massif, the band keeps their organic, yet tight playing style very closely tied to the aspect of musical storytelling. Thus, the upcoming album “Abiram” picks up right where the grand finale of the title track from the band’s last release left off, in which the wanderer leaves ‘Moloch’ full of despair and hopelessness.
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