SELLEST OSAST
Based in Baltimore and Chicago, André Foisy, Terence Hannum, and Steven Hess form a vigorous three-piece experimental metal band.
André Foisy plays a variety of guitars, tape loops, and electronics. Terence Hannum provides vocals, synths, and tape loops. LOCRIAN's dummer Steven Hess contributes emphatic, powerful rhythmic alignment with occasional electronics. A 10 year span means this band has many interpretations on their most entrenched themes centered around humanity's extinction, environmentalism, dystopia and its relentless conditioning of desolate drain. LOCRIAN transforms sounds by bringing an emotional and contemplative landscape to settle with these harsh realities. By mirroring society's external doom, LOCRIAN weaves specific narratives that journey into long paths of drifty improvisation. In the eventual unfolding, a structure is then built; intros turn into songs and the chance for novelty slowly or quickly develops as they destroy expectations. When you would predict the entrance of screams, Terence may whisper instead. LOCRIAN takes these important moments of scarcity as a lesson that the invisible is still known, it just has to be discovered.
LOCRIAN naturally rejects people's cultural biases against metal standards and stereotypes. They do not do this on purpose, it just so happens that while they are still coined as metal, LOCRIAN conquers other categories in an equally infectious way. This trio forces you to sit with a sonic palette you were not prepared for. Through lingering, steady drones, prolonged atmospheric and drawn out melodies to industrial aggressiveness, electronic abrasiveness and noisy ambience, even "eclectic" and "forward thinking" are true understatements.
For example, in their latest releases New Catastrophism and Ghost Frontiers, LOCRIAN takes that brooding, minimalistic hypnosis and turns it into complete stillness at times. Contrast that to the utter screech and gristle throbbing of past releases like their 2010 album Territories, you are consequently confronted with an internal conundrum as to how one may straddle the juxtaposing lines so fiercely, so delicately. Much like their attitude on Earth as a planet versus society as a possibly doomed, and certainly overpopulated successor, LOCRIAN brings detail to our environment in a completely holistic way that includes real, hard truths. Yet society lies dormant, harboring disconcerting apathy towards geological preservation and in return self-transformation. Can the latter save the former? Can seemingly unrelated sounds co-exist to feed the same solutions?
