"This hell we’ve built / Collective guilt / We can’t afford to be neutral no more..."
Done right and there is nothing singularly better than the heaviest of heavy guitars with bass and drums as a framework for a strident vocal rant, a passionate diatribe. This tight fisted approach is doubled down on "Hubris" by Switzerland based noise rock band Asbest accompanied with a compelling Official Video as directed by the band's bassist Judith Breitinger. Heavy metal guitar shapes framed against big bass and drums switching up downbeats throughout while Robyn Trachsel emotes in a full throated wail:
"There is no multitude of I
Yet it is the law that we abide
There is no multitude of I
Yet it is the law that we abide
When everybody is special
No one is special!!!"
The song seems to shoot arrows at the idea of copycat individuality, of social media addiction and the need for all to obtain their 15 minutes of fame. "Hubris" is from the band's upcoming album "Cyanide". Press notes reveal that Asbest is "connected to the LGBTQIA+ movement (people discriminated against by the patriarchy due to their sexual orientation or gender identity)" and that the new album "condemns the compulsions of modern society: pressure to succeed, self-optimization, self-exploitation. They explore the question: Is it possible to lead a truly happy existence within a diseased reality without denying oneself or the circumstances? To quote Adorno: Is there a right life in the wrong one?"
Asbest is comprised of Robyn Trachsel (vocals, guitar), Judith Breitinger (vocals, bass) and Jonas Häne (drums).
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3HhGg167qJrUD2n7OG9Xzq
https://asbest-noise.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/asbestnoise/
In 2018, noise rock band Asbest appeared out of nowhere with their debut album «Driven», which received highly positive reviews internationally (Visions: 9/12, «A combination of Metz’s or Pissed Jeans’s rawness with openness for experiments like A Place To Bury Strangers, underscored by shoegaze elements»). The blog bprodukt wrote: «Never before have cold post-punk, passionate noise rock and hypnotic shoegaze been combined so naturally».
Connected to the LGBTQIA+ movement (people discriminated against by the patriarchy due to their sexual orientation or gender identity), Asbest use their follow-up album «Cyanide» to condemn the compulsions of modern society: pressure to succeed, self-optimisation, self-exploitation. They explore the question: Is it possible to lead a truly happy existence within a diseased reality without denying oneself or the circumstances? To quote Adorno: Is there a right life in the wrong one? Asbest are made up of Robyn Trachsel (vocals, guitar), Judith Breitinger (vocals, bass) and Jonas Häne (drums) and are published by A Tree in a Field Records. Their genre is post-punk, shoegaze-inspired noise rock.
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