Salem Moses
Without a doubt, an instant blind purchase. One of the most exciting collectives on the scene right now, their debut Aveilut blew me away with its massive scope and sincerity.
Pre-order of The Promise of Rain. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Purchasable with gift card
releases July 12, 2024
$8USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Kindly note that orders containing pre-order items will be held until everything in the order is available to ship.
Available on Bone and Swamp Green Merge Vinyl (500 units) and Swamp Green Vinyl (500 units).
Includes digital pre-order of The Promise of Rain.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around July 12, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$26USDor more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Kindly note that orders containing pre-order items will be held until everything in the order is available to ship.
Includes digital pre-order of The Promise of Rain.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around July 12, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$12USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Kindly note that orders containing pre-order items will be held until everything in the order is available to ship.
Professionally replicated cassettes.
Includes digital pre-order of The Promise of Rain.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around July 12, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$11USDor more
T-Shirt/Shirt
Kindly note that orders containing pre-order items will be held until everything in the order is available to ship.
Printed on Bella Canvas stock. Graphics on the front and back of shirt.
Art by Christian Degn-Petersen.
Expected to ship around the release of the album in July, 2024.
Weightless in the arid wind
I plummet, wild and livid
Towards your sere terrain
Cruel and perfect
It burns, unconquered
Scarred and crenelated
Where the waters went extinct
Echoes from epochs of violence
That left its bones flayed
And though I am afraid
I rush towards your embrace
Here, in the basin of alkaline grief
Loom the wounds in your soul, arrayed
Beneath the heavens’ desiccant gaze
I will make this waste our home
Beloved, you will never be alone
2.
Scorched Vision
3.
Subduction
4.
Undertow
5.
Venom & Cadmium
6.
The Promise Of Rain
about
The Promise of Rain, the sophomore album of the experimental black metal band Scarcity, is an embodiment of the hard-to-believe truth that burdens are easier to bear when distributed, a realization Brendon Randall-Myers (conductor of the Glenn Branca Ensemble) grappled with extensively while writing this record. This is a sweat-drenched album about dispersion, about spreading, about the collective relieving of burdens through shared experience: you don’t have to go through everything alone.
When Scarcity’s debut album Aveilut was written in early 2020, Randall-Myers and vocalist Doug Moore (Pyrrhon, Weeping Sores, Glorious Depravity, and Seputus) never expected to be able to play their songs live. The cathartic experience of playing something that came from a place of isolation out to people in a live setting is the root of the intensity in The Promise of Rain. The Promise of Rain begins where the craziest climaxes of Aveilut end, and is the first Scarcity record to include Tristan Kasten-Krause (Sigur Ros, Steve Reich, LEYA) on bass, Dylan Dilella (Pyrrhon) on guitar and Lev Weinstein (Krallice) on drums. Rather than building density with the quasi-orchestral layering on Aveilut, Scarcity challenged themselves to document what five people in a room could do, recording most of The Promise of Rain in one or two takes, capturing the physical effort and urgency of a live performance.
Scarcity forges a completely fresh sound in The Promise of Rain with their alarming guitar work and melodic arpeggiating, shedding dead skin and breaking ground with sheer vulnerability. The lyrics for The Promise of Rain were inspired by a trip Moore took to the high deserts of southern Utah in 2023. “To thrive in the desert is an act of abnegation –” he observes, “you do right by the land and receive its gifts, or it does away with you.” The necessity of adaptation is as evident in the desert as it is to the landscape of the human experience. The transformation of ideas and beliefs, the grief of losing relationships that had to end, and the fear involved in forming new ones under the grip of mental illness is conjured over and over again on this panoramic album.
Out 7/12/2024.
credits
releases July 12, 2024
Original compositions by Brendon Randall-Myers, lyrics by Doug Moore
Arrangements and additional compositions by SCARCITY:
Brendon Randall-Myers: guitar, synths
Doug Moore: vocals
Tristan Kasten-Krause: bass
Dylan DiLella: guitar
Lev Weinstein: drums
Recorded, mixed, and mastered September-October 2023 by Colin Marston at Menegroth: The Thousand Caves, NYC
Art by Christian Degn, source photography by Caroline Harrison
Layout and design by Suzanne Yeremyan
supported by 30 fans who also own “The Promise of Rain”
super duper good follow up to their first record, which is a modern death doom classic, here they went in a bit of a different and more ambitious direction joshuassites
