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As a part of a constant effort to create and expand its unique musical experience; Svet Kant is now on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The band will subsequently increase and expand to more social media channels and profiles to reach out to more people and audiences around the globe.  Feel formally invited to subscribe to these networks to be updated on the band’s news, tour dates, media and much more.

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“Loneliness” trailer

After over a year of intense work and commitment, Svet Kant is proud to present and showcase this trailer with snippets, footage and recordings from its debut album “Loneliness”.

The album has been recorded and produced by Santiago Kodela with tracking, mixing and mastering by the hand of Ramiro Pacheco at Muzic Records.

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“Loneliness” mixing

With over a year in the recording and tracking of all the instruments, “Loneliness” is set to begin the mixing phase by engineer Ramiro Pacheco under the supervision of Santiago Kodela.

Ramiro will contribute with his knowledge and expertise while Santiago will supervise, guide and review that all instruments, vocals and arrangements are mixed according to the album needs and sound goals.

You can check an album of pictures and gear used during the recording session in the GALLERY section.

The time is near and expectations grow stronger.

Vocal tracks finished

All lead singing, backing vocals, choral arrangements and growled sections of “Loneliness” have been recorded during the month of December and the next stop will be the mixing and mastering.

The vocal lines combine different styles and techniques such as growling, screaming and clean singing drawing influences both from contemporary/popular music and earlier music such as Gregorian chants.

Check a short video with some snippets from the vocal recordings in the VIDEOS section.

Santiago’s review on each track of “Loneliness”

In this section, Santiago will give a brief explanation of the structure and musical ideas behind each track out of “Loneliness”.

1) ”The peace within loneliness”
Instrumental intro, by far the most challenging track to record.  Mood shifts, tempo changes and varied techniques combined to converge to the second part of the track.  The second section focuses on slowly developing harmonic transitions which turn “creepier” until leading onto the next song.

2) ”The radical cleansing”
This track is basically divided into 2 parts totally different one another, both from musical and sound perspectives.  The first one: a blow of thrash and death metal combined to keep you up and hooked up.  The second one: focused on more melodic and harmonic passages.

3) ”An infinite curse”
This track is the less melodic of all as it involves little sang sections compared to “growled” ones.  Additionally, it has “clean” obscure passages with harmonic dissonances to contribute to the overall darkness of the song.  One of the most head-banging darkness-tainted songs of the record.

4) “Delivering beasts”
Downflow clean arpeggios arrive at guitar melodies combined with bass arrangements.  Pure gain bursts to crack the sky with harmonic and octave dissonances.  Half tempo verse opens the door to blast beats and interludes for thrash lovers.  Verse repeats and leads onto the chorus and later, clean section.  Afterwards, comes an assorted variation of metal-focused eclectic riffs that pump up the energy.  Ending chorus leads to drum solo in a jazzy/Oriental groovy outro.

5) “This redundant humanity”
Track starts with a funky-driven introduction.  This is a track that’s characterised for not having many lyrics, which is balanced with different riffs and sections.  The first track recorded out of “Loneliness”, one of the most difficult ones especially the closing odd tempo oriental-in-style riff.

6) “To demonize the unknown”
Great peaceful intro followed by an unavoidable head-banger guitar-riff.  A burst of pure thrash-metal followed by a 4/4 simple yet catchy riff.  The verse repeats and then off to a death-metal non-melodic pre-solo with dive bar, lots of tremolos and heavy vibrato.  Chorus leads to main solo and back to the chorus before entering the melodic part of the track.  After this section, the track flows into a glorious riff of paired twinned guitar which later on concludes with a final old-school metal riff.

 7) “Smothered by this race”
Clean intro with a melody to remember.  Some Argentinean folklore polyrhythms lead to the verse.  No chorus for this one, just a flow of different sections which reminisce one another.  A sequence of heavy and catchy riffs lead onto a soothing, melodic interlude that turns creepier into a half tempo ending riff that comes accompanied by a natural rhythmic crescendo; ultimately, dissonances to wrap-up.

8) “Nature’s hatred”
The first section of this track focuses on establishing a conversation between guitar riffs which are antagonistic one another.  Kicks-off onto a blast-beat section which is followed by the chorus, a solo, and into a mellow, colourful section.  The best comes after a polymeter section combining all instrumentals interlude that grows into a technical passage which ultimately leads to the ending chorus.  The record concludes with a melodic only-guitar outro for your delight.

Guitar tracks finished

All rhythm, lead and classical guitar parts, as well as all solos on the album, were recorded between June and October by Santiago Kodela.

The guitar works in “Loneliness” combine elements from eclectic styles such as classical guitar, jazz, metal, rock and folk.  Throughout the diverse tracks of the record, guitar aficionados will be able to find distinguishable melodic passages as well as more unconventional harmonic transitions and chordal harmonisations.  A step towards experimentation within both harmony, structure and melody.

Check a short video with solos and riffs from the guitar recordings in the VIDEOS section.

“Loneliness” artwork revealed

Track listing for “Loneliness” will be:

1 – The peace within loneliness

2 – The radical cleansing

3 – An infinite curse

4 – Delivering beasts

5 – This redundant humanity

6 – To demonize the unknown

7 – Smothered by this race

8 – Nature’s hatred

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Bass tracks finished

Recorded by guest bassist Federico Gervan (AGAINST), all the bass parts have been tracked throughout the month of April and “Loneliness” starts to grow slowly but steadily.

The bass lines characterise for being both melodic and virtuosic and contrapuntal and independent.  Svet Kant would like to personally thank Federico for undertaking such task and outline his outstanding musicianship and skills.

Check a short video with snippets from the bass recording process in the VIDEOS section.

Drum tracks finished

Recorded by session drummer Santiago Sauza between December and January, all drums parts were tracked following a tight and demanding schedule.

The extended length of the songs combined with diverse time-signature changes was a demanding yet rewarding challenge.  Combining an arrange of different techniques and rudiments from assorted antagonistic styles like blast-beats and syncopated poly-rhythms, these mind-boggling drum parts will satisfy percussion lovers from all levels.

Check a short video with snippets from the drum process in the VIDEOS section.

Entering the studio

Lead by Santiago Kodela, the band will hit the studio at the beginning of 2012 to record “Loneliness”, an avant-garde experimental metal album focused on blending heavy metal and antagonistic genres (i.e. classical music, jazz, folk,etc.) to create a unique listening experience.  The music will combine heavy and carefully designed guitar works intertwined with melodic and soothing contrasting sections.  A perfect pairing of dissonance and consonance that will give the listener new ways to approaching music.

The album lyrical content will revolve around the human behaviour, the paradoxes and ironies of existence and the by-products of anthropocentrism.  Focused on the mysteries of the human behaviour in relation to the creation of God; “Loneliness” extended duration will keep the audience hooked and ever-wondering what’s to come.

Comprising 7 songs + 1 instrumental introductory opening track, “Loneliness” will mark the beginning of a musical journey through never-walked paths with the ultimate goal of creating a rare and unique sound.

Svet Kant enters MUZIC RECORDS studios (Buenos Aires, Argentina) by the hand of producer Ramiro Pacheco.