Lacabra | Picture by Iron Mike Savoia
Seattle’s Lacabra aren’t right here to tug punches. With a self-titled debut dropping June 6 by way of M-Idea Audio, the Pacific Northwest crushers are able to make their mark—with serrated riffs, white-knuckled depth, and a deep understanding of what it means to lose the thread. As we speak, Decibel is proud to premiere the brand new monitor and video for “Nothing”—a dizzying descent into habit, disillusionment, and identification collapse, rendered with savage readability.
Musically, “Nothing” seems like a panic assault set to blast beats. Rooted within the band’s eclectic DNA—half basic metallic, half darkish wave, half melodic dying—it twists and churns by icy tremolo runs, dual-guitar precision, and throat-rending vocals from frontman Lance Neatherlin. However it’s the video that completes the imaginative and prescient: a stylized descent into insanity from animator Maria Nicheva Wicklund, who’s no stranger to pushing Lacabra’s visuals previous the anticipated.
“The lyrics on ‘Nothing’ have been written by Didier Almounzi (Dragonforce, Razor of Occam), who performed within the band that was the precursor to Lacabra, Locistellar,” explains the band. “It’s about what onerous medicine actually do to the psyche—how they twist actuality, convincing the thoughts that dwelling day-after-day is the actual burden, not the habit itself.”
Neatherlin provides: “The video is a couple of white collar, working stiff, who grinds himself right into a nub, working countless hours within the company world and goes fully off the rails in a drug-fueled frenzy. Maria Nicheva Wicklund, who additionally did the animation for our ‘Fractured’ video, has a really distinctive fashion and knocks it out of the park each time we work together with her.”
That includes members with roots in Locistellar, Dragonforce, and Destroyer 666, Lacabra have quick change into a must-see power onstage. Their punishing reside reveals and blackened heaviness have landed them assist slots with bands like Goatwhore, Crypta, Destruction, and Swallow the Solar. With a French tour lined up this fall and new administration by way of Excessive Administration Group, Lacabra’s solely course is ahead—quick.
Take a look at “Nothing” beneath and pre-order Lacabra, out June 6 on M-Idea Audio.
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