No Ritmo da Terra by Antropoceno

For fans of Cime, Gingerbee, Huremic, experimental metal, and the existential dread of a dry creek bed on the first day of summer, No Ritmo da Terra by Antropoceno fuses traditional Brazilian music with the avant garde to renegotiate our future relationship with technology. Instrumentation, vocals, and lyrics derived from the indigenous people of Eastern Brazil intentionally call to mind pre-Christian spiritual practices, a mode of worship which places extreme importance on the earth as one unified being. By resurrecting this idea, we realize the extent of the moral depravity required to plunder and pollute the environment on an industrial scale, since a conception of humanity as one small part of a huge breathing system makes our self-destruction downright absurd. However, Antropoceno steers clear of Luddite excesses by inviting in a heavy dose of contemporary experimentation, the record’s blasting metal drumming, post-rock noise guitar, and layered vocal sampling suggests a path for us to embrace technology when used to serve a collective purpose, putting principles first and therefore creating something sublimely natural, real, and vital.