Lacabra | Picture by Iron Mike Savoia
Seattle’s Lacabra aren’t right here to tug punches. With a self-titled debut dropping June 6 by way of M-Concept Audio, the Pacific Northwest crushers are able to make their mark—with serrated riffs, white-knuckled depth, and a deep understanding of what it means to lose the thread. As we speak, Decibel is proud to premiere the brand new observe and video for “Nothing”—a dizzying descent into dependancy, disillusionment, and identification collapse, rendered with savage readability.
Musically, “Nothing” seems like a panic assault set to blast beats. Rooted within the band’s eclectic DNA—half traditional metallic, half darkish wave, half melodic loss of life—it twists and churns via icy tremolo runs, dual-guitar precision, and throat-rending vocals from frontman Lance Neatherlin. But it surely’s the video that completes the imaginative and prescient: a stylized descent into insanity from animator Maria Nicheva Wicklund, who’s no stranger to pushing Lacabra’s visuals previous the anticipated.
“The lyrics on ‘Nothing’ have been written by Didier Almounzi (Dragonforce, Razor of Occam), who performed within the band that was the precursor to Lacabra, Locistellar,” explains the band. “It’s about what laborious medication actually do to the psyche—how they twist actuality, convincing the thoughts that residing day-after-day is the actual burden, not the dependancy itself.”
Neatherlin provides: “The video is a few white collar, working stiff, who grinds himself right into a nub, working infinite hours within the company world and goes utterly off the rails in a drug-fueled frenzy. Maria Nicheva Wicklund, who additionally did the animation for our ‘Fractured’ video, has a really distinctive model and knocks it out of the park each time we work along with her.”
That includes members with roots in Locistellar, Dragonforce, and Destroyer 666, Lacabra have quick develop into a must-see pressure onstage. Their punishing reside reveals and blackened heaviness have landed them help slots with bands like Goatwhore, Crypta, Destruction, and Swallow the Solar. With a French tour lined up this fall and new administration by way of Excessive Administration Group, Lacabra’s solely course is ahead—quick.
Take a look at “Nothing” under and pre-order Lacabra, out June 6 on M-Concept Audio.
Get Yer Socials On
