Haunted Plasma (members of Oranssi Pazuzu, K-X-P, Grave Pleasures) share new single feat. Mat McNerney (Hexvessel)

25th April 2024 0 By Jon Deaux

Svart Records is proud to release the debut album, I, from Haunted Plasma, a powerhouse of futuristic synth in symbiosis with the super violent atmospherics of kosmische Black Metal. Haunted Plasma is “man meets machine” in a cybernetic wasteland, set to a conceptual backdrop of William Gibson and Phillip K. Dick style mind-melt. The highly evolved creatives at the heart of Haunted Plasma’s sound, cite Terry Riley, Massive Attack, a contemporary take on Krautrock hypnosis, psychedelic Black Metal and 90s Techno, resulting in an orgy of mutant sound.

Today, the band releases a new video for Machines Like Us, featuring Mat McNerney on vocals. Every chord and sound predict our frightening future, which we will inevitably face in one way or another.

“Machines Like Us is a song that pulsates and sparkles hypnotizing lines of code straight into the nervous system. It presents a bittersweet vision of a machine intertwining with the human consciousness”, Haunted Plasma‘s guitarist Juho Vanhanen describes the band’s single release on Friday.

The phantoms at the beating nucleus of this unearthly machine are Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures), Timo Kaukolampi (K-X-P, Op:l Bastards) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, Aavikko, K-X-P), transmitting a music form evolved from a life of redefining sonic boundaries in their respective projects. Also featuring guest vocals from Mat McNerney (Hexvessel, Carpenter Brut, Grave Pleasures/Beastmilk), Pauliina Lindell (Vuono, Dust Mountain) and Ringa Manner (Ruusut, The Hearing). Haunted Plasma promises an extraterrestrial experience from some of the foremost contemporary musicians at the heart of the Finnish heavy and avant-garde musical underworld.

I is a rare record of talented musicians coming together to create a completely new sound, which is entirely their own, boldly glowing, where no light has shone before. From the dreamy psychedelia of Echoes to the discombobulatedSpectral Embrace, Haunted Plasma is a willful force of deliberate sound contortion.

Whether you want to give in to Haunted Plasma’s sound or not, you are being watched, you are being recorded and your every move is monitored. Haunted Plasma will enter your system on the 31st of May 2024. Turn on your phantom circuits and be prepared for an interdimensional excursion into Haunted Plasma’s alien dreams.

The debut album from Haunted Plasma will be packaged in a beautiful tip-on sleeve, swirling fog artwork, complete with 12” booklet and pressed on 3 exclusive different vinyl releases: 300 copies on Standard Black Wax, 200 copies in Amber + Black Smoke, 500 copies of Turquoise/Black Marble and 200 copies of Turquoise/Black Marble. The album will also be available on CD and digital. Go here to secure your limited edition of the album now: https://www.svartrecords.com/en/product/haunted-plasma-i/12339

26.4. Haunted Plasma: Machines Like Us (digital)

https://orcd.co/machineslikeus