AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SVNTH — “NARROW, NARROW”

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Mar 272025
 


SVNTH – Pink Noise Conception

(written by Islander)

In case you’ve forgotten or never knew, the Roman experimental metal band SVNTH pronounce their name “Seventh”, a connection to their former name Seventh Genocide. Their last album, 2020’s Spring in Blue, was an hour-long double-LP and part of a planned trilogy of colors based on emotions in different phases of human life. Almost five years later the plan evolves with a new album named Pink Noise Youth that will be released on April 18th by These Hands Melt.

SVNTH explain about this second part of the trilogy: “If the previous record Spring in Blue was about facing life’s struggles on a childhood perspective, the upcoming Pink Noise Youth will be based on exploring awareness as an adult in late youth, trying to give a voice to a generation emotionally unstable and chaotic as pink noise.” The album’s cover image by Tryfar is in line with that conception.

But not only has the subject matter moved into a different phase of life, the music has moved too. SVNTH have already established themselves as a band interested in bringing together a wide variety of musical colors — as varied as black and post-metal, shoegaze, art pop, and cinematic post-rock. The new album is equally transcendent of genre boundaries, combining elements of hardcore, metal, shoegaze, and post-rock with some new instrumental choices — incorporating an electric Indian sitar, classical and 12-string guitars, and (gasp!) clean singing. It is also the work of a lineup that has changed significantly since the last record.

As a hint of what the album brings, it’s recommended for fans of Deafheaven, Alcest, Brutus, Svalbard, and Agalloch. As a more concrete hint, today we premiere an official video for the third single from the album released so far, a song called “Narrow, Narrow.” Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: SVNTH — “ERASING GODS’ TOWERS”

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Jul 292020
 

 

As we wrote at time of our last premiere for this Roman band two years ago, in genre terms they were hard to pin down. At the time of that 2018 release (an EP named SVNTH) one could tick off references to black metal, post-rock, and Pink Floyd-inspired psychedelia, with a nod toward experimental flourishes — and you could also hear ambient sounds and folk-oriented digressions with a dark cast.

As we observed then, just making a list like that might make you think of a juggler feverishly trying to avoid dropping any of the multi-colored spheres he’s whirling through the air, but Seventh Genocide (who have begun shortening their name to SVNTH) made their amalgamation of myriad influences sound effortless. All those changing colors weren’t distracting; they just made the music more engrossing.

Which is one reason why we’ve been so curious to see what they would do on their next release. That next release turns out to be an album named Spring in Blue, which will be released by Transcending Records on August 28th. The band have previously released a first single called “Wings of the Ark“, and today we present a second one — “Erasing Gods’ Towers“. Continue reading »