Mexico City alt metal band Kimah have
released their new full-length record, a collection of ten original
tracks titled “Electra.”
Mexico City alt metal band Kimah have
released their new full-length record, a collection of ten original
tracks titled “Electra.” The album has a total playing time of
approximately 35 minutes and represents Kimah at this stage of their
skyrocketing career admirably, as well as representing the
alternative metal subgenre in better light than has been done,
perhaps, in ten years or more.
This will appear to the objective
reader too-biased a claim for real music journalism, but “Electra,”
for which album this press release is authored, serves as a solid
piece of evidence to any impartial music listener who has been
involved with metal since the year 2000 or earlier. “Electra” has
everything that heavy metal has always used to create an atmosphere
of adrenaline-powered audio aggression and mortal consciousness, and
to this Kimah adds their own strong personality and impetuous
character, making something that is new, yet mindful of and
respectful to the old metal godfathers. “Electra” has thundering
double-kick bass and snapping, machine-gun snare strikes; melodic,
needling guitar riffs (solos never too long); roaring, screeching,
bellowing vocals (and some singing); and bass lines that powerfully
lurk in the shadows, biding their time, and which often seem to be
the main narrative voice communicating the song at hand.
These things are all necessary to a
fine metal band; however, Kimah also takes this core and colors it
with an alchemy of their own, an equation of creativity that goes
beyond the inspiration of bands that came before them. Their riffs
often surprise the listener with unlikely chord progressions that
sound vaguely futuristic – like the classical music of another
dimension – measures and bridges that come out of nowhere and make
sense, but were never predictable beforehand. Then their next track
begins, and right away the listener realizes that, again, this sound
was entirely unexpected having come from the last one. The only
constant to “Electra,” and to Kimah in general, is a passionate
undercurrent of charged life that invigorates everything they play
and animates their every composition, a consistent surge of tonal
energy that informs every song they write, and the truly remarkable
thing is that this intensity translates into recorded music perfectly
well.
Ears beware, therefore: Kimah cannot be
played at a low volume. You will turn it up.
Kimah's “Electra” is available
online everywhere beginning early February, 2013.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Electra” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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ARTIST
CONTACT INFO:
contacto.kimah@gmail.com
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