Danish epic sci-fi post metallers LLNN have shared a new music video for “Parallels”, taken from their latest album “Deads”, which was released in 2018 via Pelagic Records.
Footage by Michael Panduro & Rasmus G. Sejersen. Post-Production by Rasmus G. Sejersen. Thanks to artist Blood Nex for kindly letting us use his collection of dead stuff for this video.
Copenhagen’s LLNN burst onto the international scene with 2016’s critically acclaimed debut album „Loss“, a sheer display of „absolute raging rawness“, as Terrorizer put it. But there is more to LLNN’s sound than that: „the wavering drone synths that are effortlessly merged with a raw hardcore-driven darkness define the subtle idiosycratic nuances of LLNN’s very unsubtle, painfully overwhelming sound.“ (The Sludgelord).
After a split EP „Marks” with LA’s WOVOKA in the Summer of 2017, LLNN returned with their sophomore album, „Deads“, in the Spring of 2018 which evades all the pitfalls of the sophomore slump. Produced by Jacob Bredahl and mastered by Tue Madsen, „Deads“ is an erosive, abrasive, dystopian, apocalyptic monolith of monstrous dimensions.
„It’s only LLNN’s second full-length, but most of its sprawling, hardcore-flecked postmetal is comparable to Cult Of Luna’s Vertikal masterwork. This is cold, despiteful, unforgiving music.” (Metalhammer UK).
Compared to its predecessor, „Deads“ is more compact, yet more complex and organic all at the same time. The band has now perfectionized the amalgamation of the stringed instruments section (bass, guitar) with keys player Ketil G. Sejersen’s very dominant 80’s Sci- Fi movie-esque synth layers, which are inspired by composers like Brad Fiedel, Vangalis, John Carpenter and Stanley Kubrick as much as by Sci-Fi / horror games like Silent Hill, Dead Space, Halo and Limbo.
„Some of the synth sounds on the album consists of recordings from everyday sounds transformed into eerie soundscapes, for instance the sounds of boiling water“, drummer Rasmus G. Sejersen comments. „We wanted the soundscapes to be a persistent and dynamic underlay of sounds that influence the music’s core and soul throughout the entire album, together with all the riffs, rhythms and vocals“.
It doesn’t come as a surprise that this band triggers the interest of movie soundtrack designers like the award-winning Peter Albrechtsen, known for his work on movies like „Dunkirk”, “Antichrist” or “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”:
”As a sound designer for movies, I love when music feels like a sonic adventure. I’m obsessed with music that explores what sound can do to our body, to our mind, to our imagination. LLNN’s new album is one of the most overwhelmingly intense records I’ve heard in quite a while and the way it blends abstract ambient sounds, shattering rhythms and extreme noise is both hypnotic and powerful. The sense of sonic detail is staggering and for each spin I hear new elements, echoes, textures and my mind gets new visual associations. Sometimes it feels like the soundtracks of Apocalypse Now and Eraserhead has been melted together and blasted through a ferocious guitar amp – these songs have both a sense of impending doom and an extraordinary combination of raw energy and gritty beauty.“
LLNN has appeared on festivals such as ROADBURN, DESERT FEST (London), ROSKILDE FESTIVAL, PELAGIC FEST and ARCTANGENT.
