Wojtek – In the abyss of my ego

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• Band:
  Wojtek
• Duration: 00:19:36
• Available from: 16/04/2025
• Label:

• Shove records

• Teschio records

• Violence in the Veins

There are two ways to survive an aspriment feeling of discomfort and anger, stoic silence or the scream, a disarticulated cry left to flare up until the vocal cords do not incesp, exhausted. This visceral therapy has been adopted over the years by a large number of Italian bands, by the pioneering denials of “letting me stay” to the nerrs to reach more recent realities such as that of the flocks. Of course, it could be objected how this approach is common to all international post-hardcore bands-style of which converge are a paradigmatic example-but the Wojtek have definitively adopted Italian to express themselves, and it is therefore with this scene that they must confront each other.
Born in 2019 and strong of a name with a great symbolic impact (Wojtek was the Bruno Mascotle bear of the 22nd refueling company of Polish artillery during the Second World War), the Paduan quintet has already released four works (including an album, “Petricor”, in 2023), and returns today with a new singer, Leonardo Amati who takes over from Mattia Zambon.
From a stylistic point of view, the band does not differ significantly from the past, but the four songs of the new EP “in the abyss of my self” capture attention thanks to a good balance between violence and melody, as evidenced by the opening piece “and when the sun will turn off, we will burn the sky” (title that resumes the poetics of the flocks), where a lugubre refrain dilutes the vehemence of the supply of the report the harmony between the guitars of Morgan Zambon and Riccardo Zolato).
Even the rest of the minialbum does not disappoint, with the subsequent “rhythms” that settles on a canonically hardcore style (of a negation) and exhibits a fine epic closed, while “shadow poison” slows down the rhythms and reduced the guitars, revealing unexpected sludge influences. “Mirror” closes the work by showing the most experimental side of the band, engaged in a complex composition, full of choral inserts and post-metal hints, which collapses in an austere acoustic tail, a song capable of bringing to mind some of the best compositions of the Marnero.
Despite its short duration, therefore, “in the abyss of my self” will awaken the appetite of those who nourish eardrums and soul of these sounds, thanks to the immediate appeal of songs such as “Mirror” and “Rhythms”, pieces that we hope to feel early in the live.

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