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metavari - symmetri - one way static - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Soundtracks

1. Assemble en Miroir I
2. Messages
3. Futura
4. Unterirdisch
5. Byrani Rom Ascii
6. Indigo
7. Moloch!
8. Assemble en Miroir II
9. Babel
10. Hymns
11. Trouble
12. Tetraheathen
13. Eternal Return, pt.1
14. Witchhunt (feat. Daniel Weyandt)
15. Assemble en Miroir III

‘Symmetri' is Metavari's sophomore studio release led by electronic musician and composer, Nathaniel David Utesch, and debut studio LP on One Way Static Records. The work is a stand-alone edit of Metavari's 'Metropolis' re-score from Record Store Day 2017; introducing new and reconfigured material in addition to selections from the soundtrack.

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Metavari is the stage name of Indiana-based electronic musician Nathaniel David Utesch and is best described as the intersection of nostalgic electronics, ambient soundscapes and off-kilter synth pop music. Since 2008, Metavari have toured extensively in the US; sharing the stage with notable acts such as This Will Destroy You, Maserati, Tortoise, Titus Andronicus, Anamanaguchi, The Appleseed Cast & Small Black.

Written and produced over the course of 20 months, the lengthy writing time stretched across a whirlwind season surrounding the miscarriage of Nathaniel and his wife's first pregnancy and coincidentally ended just after the success of their second. Nathaniel said of the writing, "The record was drenched in an incredibly dark season of our life and yet concluded at nearly the opposite. I quite literally finished the record with my newborn son in my arms." While much of 'Symmetri' was written as a re-scoring of Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis,' it's still almost impossible not to hear the disparate tug and pull from Nathaniel's personal experiences during the time of the recordings.

The LP comes packaged in a deluxe jacket with a custom die cut center hole & includes a digital download containing a bonus track from Metavari and remixes from Sarah Davachi, Diamondstein, Antoni Maiovvi, Makeup and Vanity Set, Taragana Pyjarama, and Umberto. The record also features guest vocals from Daniel Weyandt, singer of the seminal hardcore metal band, Zao. Available as a limited classic black vinyl edition (limited to 500 copies) & as a color vinyl variant (limited to 300 copies milky clear and indigo blue vinyl).