🎛️🎸 PΞB, Mehrnaz Khorrami, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Radical Vitality

Whilst the name ‘A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers’ refers to multiple different artworks, including the song by Vandergraaf Generator of the same name and the Robert Eggers 2019 film, the Haarlem based metal band has developed a style that is uniquely their own. It’s perhaps because the struggle and isolation of the Lighthouse Keeper became so much more vivid to all of us, during the extended periods of isolation during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Using Sludge, Post and Doom-Metal as a vehicle for free artistic, political and personal expression, the quartet is currently working on their debut both in the studio and on stage.

Musically, the Lighthouse Keepers sound like a disturbed lovechild between OM, Sumac, Swans, Miles Davis and Pandit Pran Naath. They combine lengthy improvisations with ear shattering explosions of intensity. Lyrically, their songs deal mostly with death, personal struggle, religion and political philosophy, hence using their desperate shrieks, earsplitting cymbals, noisy guitarpalette and thumbing repetitive basspaterns to create a dialectical counterpoint to contemporary pop culture. It’s the punk rock of a failed generation, drowning in anger and filth yet too tired to organize a revolution. Still, The Lighthouse Keepers also manage to find small moments of undeniable beauty and fragility as so to perhaps spark a glimmer of hope in a world torn by pandemics, war and systemic oppression.

🜁 Joost Verhagen – vocals, synths, tanpura, shruti
🜄 Tristan “Lama Waaien” – guitar, saxophone
🜂 Derek Twiss – drums
🜃 Sterre Marrée – vocals, bass

https://aplagueoflighthousekeepers.bandcamp.com/

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