The Industrial Twilight: Elay Arson - "Spirit

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Elay Arson - "Spirit | Death" [2018]

Artist: Elay Arson

Title: Spirit | Death

Genre: Synthwave, Industrial Metal

Country: USA
Year: 2018

Track List:

Sunrise
Tawa
Cheveyo
Masauwu, Fire Keeper
Sussustanako
Masauwu, Skeleton Man
Mescalero Prophecy
Fifth World Gate (feat. Carbon Killer)
Final Midnight Ride (feat. Ultraboss)
End Times

I didn't know anything about this project until yesterday, but after taking a brief look at the track list, I guessed that this album is inspired by Native American folklore. Turned out I was right:

"An intense album inspired by the themes of southwestern Native American stories, deities, subjugation, genocide, and the apocalypse. This work pays homage to the Apache ancestry and childhood Hopi upbringing of band member Daniel Larson."

While I must admit I don't know an awful lot about the Apache or Hopi cultures, this release is fairly good. It's entirely instrumental (apart from some spoken introduction), and features a mix of synthwave and industrial metal (however, it's still much more "synth" than "metal"):

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