{"product_id":"a-plague-of-lighthouse-keepers-towers-of-silence","title":"A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers – Towers of Silence 10\"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lay Bare Recordings – LBR070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e EP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst the name 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' refers to multiple different artworks, including the song by Van der Graaf Generator of the same name and the Robert Eggers 2019 film, the Haarlem based metal band has developed a style that is equally disturbing and consoling. Using Sludge, Post and Doom-Metal as well as jazz and spiritual music as a vehicle for free artistic, political and personal expression, the quintet just finished their first run of shows throughout the Netherlands, collaborating with various musicians along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusically, the Lighthouse Keepers sound like a disturbed lovechild between OM, Sumac, Swans, Miles Davis and Pandit Pran Naath. They combine lengthy improvisations with ear shattering explosions of intensity. Lyrically, their songs deal mostly with death, personal struggle, religion and political philosophy, using their desperate shrieks, earsplitting cymbals, noisy guitar palette and thumbing repetitive bass patterns to create a dialectical counterpoint to contemporary pop culture. It's the punk rock of a failed generation, drowning in anger and filth yet too tired to organize a revolution. Still, The Lighthouse Keepers also manage to find small moments of undeniable beauty and fragility as to perhaps spark a glimmer of hope in a world torn by pandemics, war and oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat comes to mind when one mentions the genre 'drone-metal'? Most likely it's the work of pioneering artists like Sunn O))), Nadja or Earth. Yet the Dutch experimentalists of A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers gave the concept a new approach on their debut EP \u003cem\u003eTowers of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhilst most drone-metal outfits focus on creating atmosphere by composing ambient compositions with tremendous power and volume, the Lighthouse Keepers use more traditional doom\/sludge metal as a starting point and explore its differences and similarities with genres such as free jazz, raga, noise and classical minimalism. Coming from various backgrounds, A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers uses these styles to create a cohesive narrative that deals with the despair, anger and anxiety of our contemporary geopolitical climate and proceeds to find some sort of resolution and hope within the individual itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpener 'Massacre of Flour' showcases the sound of A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers with a ferocious statement against the ongoing Palestinian genocide, followed by 'I Fuck People', a show of support towards marginalised queer communities across the globe in the form of a freejazz-avant metal thunderstorm. The EP closes with title track Towers of Silence, an Om-like, spiritual wall of sound and a search of meaning and hope in the face of human finality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Massacre of Flour\u003cbr\u003e2. I Fuck People\u003cbr\u003e3. Towers of Silence\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lay Bare Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56758019129670,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1615\/8307\/files\/TowersofSilence-EPartwork.png?v=1781103547","url":"https:\/\/www.burningworldrecords.com\/products\/a-plague-of-lighthouse-keepers-towers-of-silence","provider":"Burning World Mailorder","version":"1.0","type":"link"}