Spathe's luminous fresh release "Manitou" is an audacious, genre-whiplash summon in an era of routinely redrawn music borders. "Manitou" is a necessary, incomplete nod to heavy music, the past, and the future. Whether you're leaning toward the hammering rage of black metal or the emotional fury of post-hardcore, this song deserves to be felt more than heard.
"Manitou" finds a way to mix the unrelenting aggression of black metal beasts such as Gorgoroth and Emperor with the more sensitive, melodic side to the genre that emerged from post-hardcore and emo influences like Converge and Circa Survive. It is a visceral, immersive trip that finds soaring guitar lines and ghostly vocal melodies bathed in the unyielding thump of black metal's signature fury.
"Manitou" bears an ethereal weight, embodying the concept of the "Manitou" as a force of life, energy, and presence. Every shuddery riff and tormented vocal passage seems like a summoning, an invocation of something more significant than us. The track's dynamic shifts, flashing between blistering chaos and fragile beauty, mirror the precarious balance between destruction and renewal, making it not just music.
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