ONCE HUMAN have released a video for the title track of their new studio album, “Scar Weaver,” which was released last Friday (February 11). Watch it below.
Pieced together over the last two years, “Scar Weaver” represents a massive step forward for the band. Blessed (or perhaps cursed) with plenty of extra time during the last year’s lockdown situation, the band has been able to refine and redefine its sound, inspired by a sudden creative surge from latest recruit, second guitarist Max Karon. The result is an gloriously idiosyncratic modern metal record, with Hart‘s career-best vocal performance just one of its dazzling revelations. With ONCE HUMAN‘s most intense and explosive music to work with, the singer has pushed herself to new heights, showcasing a vastly expanded vocal range in the process.
As its title suggests, “Scar Weaver” is an album that brims and bulges with notions of pain, trauma and darkness. Lauren has once again penned a stunning collection of emotionally raw diatribes, but in contrast to “Evolution”’s overriding concept, the new record takes a more scattershot approach, reflecting the chaos of the modern world along the way. From visceral opener “Eidolon” to the corrosive claustrophobia of the closing “Only In Death”, all human life is alive and screaming on Scar Weaver.
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“Scar Weaver” Tracklisting:
- Eidolon
- Deadlock
- Scar Weaver
- Bottom Feeder
- Where The Bones Lie
- Erasure
- Deserted
- We Ride
- Cold Arrival
- Only In Death
Founded in 2014, ONCE HUMAN has steadily established itself as one of the most distinct metal bands of the modern era. Founded by Mader and Hart, the quintet has had noses to the grindstone throughout its existence, exhibiting a tireless dedication to live performance and a meticulous approach to capturing its crushing anthems for posterity. Over the course of two full-length albums — 2015’s much-hailed debut “The Life I Remember” and 2017’s conceptual tour-de-force “Evolution” — ONCE HUMAN has pursued a militantly individual path, eschewing contemporary cliché in favor of a versatile new strain of brutal but accessible metal, with Lauren‘s vocals providing an endlessly emotive focal point.
ONCE HUMAN is:
- Lauren Hart / Lead Vocals
- Logan Mader / Guitar
- Max Karon / Guitar
- Damien Rainaud / Bass
- Dillon Trollope / Drums
