Playgrounded release new song ‘The Swan’

PLAYGROUNDED have released a brand new song!

The new song, titled The Swan, is taken from the Greek post-metal/progressive band’s upcoming new album, The death of Death, which is scheduled to be released in March this year.

Speaking about the new song, the band says, “we share with you The Swan, the track that we have chosen as the opening of The death of Death. The lyrics set the premise for the rest of the album: desperate or fascinating, one’s relation to the world that surrounds us is grounded to the very matter of which we are made.”

Listen to The Swan here:

Intending to demonstrate a profound understanding of the glitches they produce, PLAYGROUNDED aim to evoke a sense of the uncanny closely related to the cut-up movie fragments of sound artists like the German Orson Hentschel. “We start with dynamic sound design structures, most of the times initiated by Orestis [Zafeirou, producer/composer],” explains guitarist Michael Kotsirakis. “We then work in pairs expanding the musical space and creating variations and flourishes. Sometimes the lyrics and vocals will dictate a change in quality, other times it’s one of the instruments. After many ideas are on the table Stavros and Orestis sit together and propose a song structure. After this loop has been repeated over and over we have a very good idea of all the parts. That’s when we hit the rehearsal space and refine the details.”

“The shortest sound units become extended themes,” explains main composer Orestis Zafeirou. “Steady rhythmical blocks interact with unstable ones. Noise becomes tone and melody. Sonic grains gather to form masses, masses dissolve into a single entity. With every repetition, comes change.”

The death of Death is set for release on March 18th via Pelagic Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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