At the end of 2011 I was quite impressed with ‘To No Avail’ by the American band Surachai. And all of a sudden the digital download of the new album ‘Embraced’ drops on my digital doormat. Extremely curious as to what it would bring I downloaded it and played it, at full volume, via my […]
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Grindthieves Reviews Embraced
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
It’s a rare treat to experience an artist evolve. Either the process is hidden or the audience’s interest dwindles along the way. But, I’ve enjoyed the distinct honor of watching Surachai grow and evolve since first discovering him in Chicago several years back, especially through his last 3 full length albums. “To No Avail†and […]
Embraced Glitch Art by Nick Liberatore
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Nick Liberatore aka royb0t reinterpreted Caspar Newbolt’s Embraced artwork. Gorgeous! – http://bzzrk.tumblr.com – royb0t
Stereogum: The Black Market #2
Monday, April 29, 2013
Location:Chicago, IL Subgenre: Progressive Black Metal Given metal’s obsession with technique, it seems a little strange that the genre’s instrumental lexicon is more or less static these days. Then again, most of the low-hanging fruit has already been plucked; metal’s been around for 40-odd years, and virtuoso musicians have been pushing its technical boundaries for […]
The Needle Drop Mention
Monday, April 29, 2013
Chicago metal outfit Surachai takes the tremolo picking and blast beats of black metal, and intensifies them with great interplay, an atomspheric recording, and anthemic melodies. The band is pretty ambitious when it comes to song lengths as well, breaching the 15-minute mark on the opening track of their new album, Embraced. I could see […]
Prog Metal Zone New Release Mention
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Progressive Ambient Black Metal (third album by the ambitious experimental ambient/drone metal project of Chicago’s Surachai Sutthisasanakul who usually does everything himself but this time has some great guest collaborators. This music is some of the most powerful and hypnoptic stuff we’ve ever heard.) – Prog Metal Zone
Noise Seeker Thought Otherwise
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
When I recently heard the name Surachai, I immediately thought it could be some kind of a stoner/doom band. The human brain makes these weird associations sometimes and mine just threw me the Snailking demo cover in front of my eyes, for no logical reason whatsoever. So, to my surprise, this is nothing like what […]
CVLT Nation Streaming Embraced
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
It’s what you are not going to hear on the new SURACHAI album Embraced that makes it special. You will not hear formulaic black metal; instead you will hear music that incorporates many different genres in an organic way to create something original and engaging! – CVLT Nation
No Clean Singing Streams Surrender + Review
Friday, April 19, 2013
Embraced sounds richer than your average bedroom black metal record. Surachai layers samples with guitar and various electronic effects to create an almost symphonic atmosphere. That mix is perfected by some of the most intricate black metal drumming I’ve heard since Cobalt’s Gin, courtesy of guest drummer Charlie Werber of Guzzlemug. That percussion absolutely makes […]
Invisible Oranges Reviews Embraced
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Also they are streaming Sentinel, the second track on Embraced. Unusual creative processes such as Surachai’s have produced genius-level black metal, but they’ve also given us the kind of irritating pomposity that Velvet Cacoon’s “dieselharp†hoax skewered so artfully in the mid-aughts. Embraced fortunately avoids the latter. The compositions wriggle through transparently American contortions, but […]