Philly post-black metal/screamo outfit Lástima are finally poised to release their debut album, A Pain Bloomed From My Lungs, later this week, following a number of small releases over the last five years. It’s still a few days from its May 16 release, but Lástima have shared “Redux,” the album’s opening track, via Decibel.
“Redux” contains most of the elements that make Lástima stand out in their genre: violin at the forefront, a combination of sung and screamed vocals and songwriting that builds to emotional peaks and crescendos.
“‘Redux’ is the opening track on the LP and was always planned to be since the song was nearing completion,” explains band mastermind Richie DeVon. “A lot of what you’ll hear through the record shows up on this track, from typical black metal passages, to reggaeton rhythms, to big melodic movements; so it acts as a great teaser for what’s to come. The song came after thinking about my family’s history in Panama and how, by the nature of being bi-racial and from Latin America, my family tree contains both those who’ve been colonized and oppressed and those who inflicted that pain and suffering. The song lyrically and sonically represents these contradictions and internal struggle in the hopes of understanding and reckoning with that reality.”
Check the new song out below; if you dig what you hear, there’s more on Lástima’s Bandcamp.
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