Hegemone – We Disappear

[schema type=”review” name=”Hegemone – We Disappear” description=”Label: Debemur Morti” author=”Miguel Melo” pubdate=”2018-05-11″ ]Poznań. Glorious city in western Poland, home of the famous goats and a fantastic (yet sufferable) football team. Yours truly lived in this city famous for its potatoes and two fighting goats in 2010. In the same exact year, one band that goes by the name of Hegemone was being formed. I didn’t have the opportunity to see them playing then, in fact I was not even aware of their existence. Even if I attended all the rock and metal bars around the city. Anyway, here we are, 8 years after and their 2nd full length album “We Disappear” was released in all power and brightness on the May, 11th . Attending the fact that this is a sludgish or doomish sound, might be more accurate to say darkness instead of brightness, but you get the idea. The album is submersive, as it is usual with the genre. We can always picture ourselves drowning.

The first song, Mara, sends the listener right into the middle of a repeating hypnotic sound. After that, is pretty much standard post-metal attitude towards the songs. Π is an interesting title for a song and slashes and dashes through, breaking the post mood and made me wake up from the letartic state to which I slided. Something that the next track, Хан Тәңірі, promptly corrects, with a surprise, surprise of a female vocal singer finishing the lullaby. The last track, Тәңірі, is a long one, almost 16 minutes, bidding you a bye bye in an instrumental trip around keyboards like no other song. When I finished the album I got curious to see how they are going to evolve.

The album is enjoyable. Fans of doom/sludge should give it a try, especially if the day is rainy and foggy. The songs tend to fit the winter/autumn mood, setting this kind of ambiance perfect for meditating. Or sleeping. Either way, it’s not a bad album and I am hoping for a tour around Europe to go and see them and give the “live” test. Would also be a good reason to go back to Poznań, in case they play in their hometown.

Line up:
Tomasz Towpik – Drums
Kacper Jachimowicz – Guitars
Tomasz Stanuch – Keyboards, Electronics
Jakub Witkowski – Vocals, Bass

1. Mara 2. Fracture 3. Raising Barrows 4. Π 5. Хан Тәңірі 6. Тәңірі

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