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A Distant (Dark) Source

by HYPNO5E

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Dmitry Nevozhay
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Dmitry Nevozhay Amazing french prog metal / prog rock with lot of ambient / cinematic parts. Very immersive. Highly recommended for open-minded metalheads Favorite track: On Our Bed of Soil - Part III.
unidual
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unidual Trip-metal. The ambient parts are as poignant as the harsh ones.

And I know what I'm talking about, I was hypnotised at 11, and never woke up.
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Jordan Vauvert
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Jordan Vauvert Certains traversent le désert pour accéder à la révélation. A Distant (Dark) Source est plutôt une invitation à y rester, à — paradoxalement — nous ressourcer en envisageant l'absence, le lac paléolithique tari. HYPNO5E entre sécheresse technique sur la piste éponyme et émotion intense grâce à une musique organique héritée d'Alba et à Emmanuel Jessua qui s'époumonne, surtout sur l'orphelin "Tauca - Part II (Nowhere)".

"Pour être une fois au monde, il faut à jamais ne plus être."
— Albert Camus. Favorite track: Tauca - Part II (Nowhere).
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"A Distant (Dark) Source", the new album from HYPNO5E!
Out now via Pelagic Records.

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HYPNO5E have forged the term “cinematic metal” with their truly epic- scope compositions, oftentimes exceeding not only the 10- but the 20-minutes mark, merging elements of contemporary metal with latin folk and soundtrack-score like sonic landscapes. After the acoustic special album “Alba - Les Ombres Errantes” (2018), the Southern French quartet are now returning with a more “typical” HYPNO5E
record, if there is such a thing: their 5th album, “A Distant (Dark) Source”, is the second part of a diptych album project. Each part will be released separately, starting with the second one.

“A Distant (Dark) Source” continues to chase those demons and lost memories which the band has been chasing ever since their debut album “Des Deux L'Une Est L'Autre”: the album is an inward journey to the land of the ghosts of the past. At the origin of this distant dark source lies Tauca, an old Paleolithic lake located in Bolivia, where singer and guitarist Emmanuel Jessua has grown up, and continues to find inspiration for his musical endeavors.

Lake Tauca disappeared more than 15 000 years ago, leaving behind an arid land and salt lakes, like the Salt Desert of Uyuni or Coipasa, at 4.500m of altitude in the Andes mountain range. “A Distant (Dark) Source” is the musical imagination of a night in this desert, during which the old shores of the lake see the return of the shadows of the people who used to live in this area before its disappearance. A man comes back to the lake to look for the shadow of the woman he loved. The album tells the story of this ephemeral return.

“A Distant (Dark) Source” is the second part of this story and takes place during one single night.

... but don't be deterred by such conceptual enthusiasm, as HYPNO5E sound is powerful, visceral and immediate. There are moments that remind you of the expansive technical elaborations of BTBAM, but there is also the careful melancholia of Cynic and the sheer power of Gojira... but in the end, all these comparisons fail - HYPNO5E's organic sound is undoubtedly their own. Unlike so many bands who rely on a single sound or technique to create their music, HYPNO5E are not bound to any precondition.

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released November 22, 2019

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Mixing ambient metal and video concept, the genius within HYPNO5E shows an all around approach to the arts, musically and visually. Playing many characters at its finest, HYPNO5E's signature sound paints the picture with such textures and color, displaying incomparable musicianship and creativity. ... more

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