Leiche - Annihilating Grace of Infinity (2025)

Elegiac sub rustlings, empty vastnesses of distortion, a thick fog of spectral shimmings, waves crashing against the ocean shores of a dark place. Annihilating Grace of Infinity is as much a deep and divergent musical journey as a cartography of a desolated and still vital interior landscape. There is a certain lightness and brightness emerging differently across the tracks on offer, but it is all anchored by an inexorable gravity towards a dark core, a centre of unabashed annihilation. This unresolved tension marches the listener through the experience. The arrival though is less an end in itself and more the arising of an awareness that the destruction is the means to a resurrection - perhaps on a different plane and different time where the ego is melted away into a greater existence. The electric bass guitar, the only musical instrument used across the album, is augmented here with a feedback system of a few pedals and a mixer. The music is entirely played and recorded live, with a few samples added in post production. The combination of a range of alternative tunings with unorthodox use of distortion, reverberations and spatialization brings to light a variety of tonal and harmonic characteristics, expanding the bass guitar into extreme and unstable ranges. The conceptual destruction and reconstitution at the core of the album is thus transformed into a material approach to the instrument.