Uprising – III
Uprising – III
AOP records
Release Date: 19/07/2024
Running Time: 40:27
Review by Metalphysicist
8.5 /10
Uprising is a one-man-project, by W. (known from Waldgeflüster), whose proposal is to play Black Metal mixed with Epic Metal, basically. That sounded good to me because I think that Black Metal as the perfect metal genre to build bridges with other metal styles, or, maybe, to borrow what we would say Black Metal ‘aesthetic’ or underlining the black/dark metal ambience, wherever this aesthetic may resemble in the composition and production process.
That is the kind of sonority that is heard during the whole audition of “III”, the third album of Uprising, since the opening track ‘Eternal Mantra’. The intro sounds like a dirty guitar plugged in a second class noisy amplifier opening the gates of hell through songs guided by nonstop blast beats’ drum conduction and the fingered guitar lines to open space for grunt and repulsive vocals. Usually mixed in the same volume of the other instruments, and that metric goes on and on.
But ‘Eternal Mantra’ is also a preview of Uprising’s intent is to step faraway the Black Metal typical elementaries foundations flirting with a considerable palette of colours emerged from Symphonic, Power and straight Heavy Metal lines heard here and there, on most of the six songs of the album. (I am sure that recording and mastering could sound better, but I believe that the matter here is how much money the band had in the budget to achieve it).
Now, the curious fact is that the song’s lyrics on “III”, are written to challenge the ones who have the power to decide about the future of mankind especially the poor and exploited citizen’s day to day life – thanks to dirty and corrupted politics who ignores the basic’s social welfare measures to ensure social rights and minimal living floor to everybody.
What took me the most attention was reflecting about the sense that arises in a song, especially when the musical and lyrical substances don’t approve of themselves so as to give birth to all kinds of songs, in a more abstract point of view.
What concerned me was if it is possible to unleash the primary relation between the shape of the songs and its lyrical concept – which is the basic structure to create sense – because that is the way it works. When one song corrupts that kind of essential convention, I think that incurs into a risky proposal of the song’s sense, as an artistic conception.
And, when the structure of Black Metal music is filled with political concepts that relation above mentioned ends up, not only frustrating the audience, it also compromises the basic creation of the meaning of the song itself – because, lyrics of protest has to be heard and understood by the listener especially because the song’s production have to highlight the vocals in detriment of the above mention chaotic and satanic or introspective intent of Black Metal songs in general musical intent.
That was what occurred to me in the reviewing process of “III” and that doesn’t mean that I didn’t like what was delivered on Uprising’s third album. Maybe if you don’t give a shit about sense of art and philosophy matters just press play and see what you get from “III”.
TRACKLISTING:
01. Eternal Mantra
02. Uprise III
03. Raise a Glass
04. A Message To The Hypocrites
05. While The World Is Burning
06. Brace Yourself
LINE – UP:
W. – Bass, Guitars, Voice
Austin Lunn – Drums
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