CONSTELLATIA release an in-studio playthrough video for “In Vituperation,” the second track from their 2022 album Magisterial Romance, out now on Season of Mist. Running just under nine minutes, the track is one of the album’s most concentrated studies in atmosphere and tension, built around the experience of being inexplicably bound to another person, that gravity that defies rational account.
Order Magisterial Romance: https://redirect.season-of-mist.com/Constellatia-MR
The playthrough features the band’s current lineup: Gideon Lamprecht & Matthew Cox on guitars, Keenan Oakes on bass and vocals, and Jonathan Burgers on drums. The performance offers a direct window into the architecture of a track that, on record, was largely the work of Lamprecht and Oakes as a duo, with Lamprecht handling all recording, production and mixing at his home studio in Cape Town. Seeing it rendered by a full band clarifies the compositional scale the two had in mind from the outset.
Watch the playthrough of “In Vituperation”: https://youtu.be/LAR_Lqgfb54
The playthrough arrives ahead of a run of three live dates. Constellatia will perform at District in Cape Town on April 4, followed by Tweefontein Melkery in Johannesburg on May 16 as part of the Massacre (US) South Africa tour, and The Armchair in Cape Town on June 11 as part of the Vígljós (CH) African tour.
Tracklist:
1. Palace (9:05)
2. In Vituperation (8:47)
3. Adorn (10:06)
4. Paean Emerging (10:52)
Full runtime: 38:50
Country: South Africa (ZA)
Genre: Post-Black Metal
FFO: Alcest, Deafheaven, Cult of Luna, Sylvaine
Following the end of Wildernessking’s career, Keenan Oakes had to continue making music, despite the difficulties of playing in a metal band in Cape Town, South Africa. Regardless, Oakes joined forces with Crow Black Sky’s Gideon Lamprecht in 2018 to create the musical entity known as Constellatia.
Taken from the word ‘constellation’, Constellatia refers to the nature of existence and the natural world, the cosmos, and extracting meaning and happiness from it all. The band’s somber take on progressive black metal encapsulates inherently human subjects; a distillation of life’s meander, sadness and tribulations.
Inspired by artists such as Opeth, Mastodon, The Cure, Primordial, Neurosis, Wolves in the Throne Room, Pink Floyd, Beach House, Agalloch, Emperor and Cult of Luna, Constellatia imbue their stark musical landscape with ferocity and reverie.
Following the release of their debut record via Isolation Records in 2019, The Language of Limbs, Constellatia was very quick to garner the attention of listeners around the world, leading to their acknowledgement and subsequent signing to the large, independent record label, Season of Mist. While The Language of Limbs sounds bleak and tends to instill a sense of longing within the listener, it too sparks an idyllic feeling of catharsis with the mesmerizing atmospheric soundscapes and subtle intoxicating harmonies.
Now with Season of Mist’s support moving forward with their sophomore record, Constellatia have the footing and foundation to fully expand on their musical endeavours.
The new album which is set to release on November the 11th 2022, shows Constellatia continuing to evolve on their already mature sound, creating these larger-than-life romantic compositions that express the emotional spectrum of simply being; an amorphous progressive metal experience enriched with lavish ambiance and ripe with spirit, unique to them alone.
From the very start, the goal with Constellatia was to create emotionally dense and textured metal that is both transcendent and incredibly human. With the release of their upcoming record later this year, Constellatia will reveal just how much more dynamic and vulnerable their music has become.
It may seem that the band is now hitting their stride, but they have only just begun. Plans are being made to tour the many corners of the world in support of their new album and subsequent releases.
To love
The wheels of this great turning
Dispel the grey aura you’ve known
Deepen the joy, stars aglow
Line-up:
Gideon Lamprecht — Guitars & Keyboards
Matthew Cox — Guitars
Keenan Oakes — Bass & Vocals
Jonathan Burgers — Drums
Follow Constellatia:
Bandcamp: https://constellatia.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/constellatiaband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/constellatiaband
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@constellatiaband
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1r8tzQXEPrte5GZ06LppsS
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/constellatia/1479927744
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/artist/73967762
Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/16819300
Available Formats:
CD Digipak
Digital Download
12” Vinyl Gatefold — Black
12” Coloured Vinyl Gatefold — Solid Orange
12” Coloured Vinyl Gatefold — Transparent w/ Orange & Yellow Splatters
