Name: The Promise Of Rain
Brand: Scarcity

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Catalogue number

FR159LPX

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Green

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format: Yes

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-08-02

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Signed copies: No

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657628443131

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Green LP

FR159LP

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657628442912

Black LP

FR159MC

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2024-09-13

657628442943

FR159CD

657628442929

Artist

Scarcity

Genre GB

Metal

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Flenser

The Flenser is a San Francisco label specializing in releasing black metal, doom, and other dark music. With a reputation for pushing boundaries and exploring the depths of sonic darkness, The Flenser has become a go-to destination for fans of heavy and atmospheric music. Whether you're looking for haunting melodies or bone-crushing riffs, The Flenser offers a diverse roster of artists that will satisfy your darkest cravings.

Known by many simply as "Flenser," this label has established itself as an authority in the underground music scene. From its humble beginnings to its current status as one of the most respected labels in the genre, The Flenser continues to curate and release groundbreaking albums that challenge conventional notions of what heavy music can be.

With an impressive catalog spanning multiple genres within the realm of dark music, The Flenser is dedicated to supporting both emerging talent and established artists who push boundaries. Explore their extensive discography and discover new sounds that will transport you to realms unknown.

Experimental black metal from Brooklyn featuring members of Pyrrhon, Krallice, Sigur Rós, The Glen Branca Ensemble, Steve Reich. Recorded by Colin Marston (Dysrhythmia, Krallice, Liturgy). Follow-up to the bands well received 2022 debut Aveilut. 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: one doesn’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.

The Promise Of Rain

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Discover The Promise Of Rain by Scarcity on vinyl records. Experimental black metal from Brooklyn. Released by Flenser. A raw and intense musical journey.