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Release Date
2 September 2022
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I, Parasite announces their fourth full-length album, Österlanden, will be released September 2nd, 2022 on the Dark Vision Media label. Founder Christopher Jon brought together a group of highly skilled friends to work on the album with him: drummer Steve Kefalas, guitarist Scott Landes, pianist Natasha Cox, and hornist Emily Joy. The seven songs presented are some of I, Parasite’s most raw and vulnerable works, welding together elements of rock, folk, and doom metal with industrial electronics.
Regarding the approach to this album, Christopher has said:
"I'm very excited by 'acoustic' and 'electronic', but not so much 'electric' right at this moment. Sound waves crashing around in a space. Ringing resonance and natural reverb. Detuned frequencies fighting for dominance. A sonic Ouroboros on the edge of out of control."
I, Parasite began as a duo in the mid 1990s. After releasing I, Parasite's second full length album, On This Cold Floor to much critical acclaim, founder Christopher Jon was chosen by producer Rob Caggiano (Anthrax, Volbeat) to contribute his sonic aesthetics to the Cradle Of Filth album, Thornography. Caggiano reciprocated with his blistering guitar work on I, Parasite's next release, the metal-infused The Sick Are Not Healing. Soon after, Chris moved to Los Angeles and began working on Österlanden.
Although this album marks the end of a two decade long journey for Christopher, the spirit of Österlanden lives on in I, Parasite’s successor, Winter Is The Wound—with new music to come in 2023.
"I, Parasite make brilliant use of feedback and discords in such a way that they become central instruments. In places it screams, in others it warbles and murmurs."-Soundsphere Magazine
Österlanden was released September 2, 2022 via Bandcamp and other digital outlets.
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