Photo by: Jean Ribeiro
Official press release:
Brazil’s DEAFKIDS will release their third album, Metaprogramação, their first studio full-length for Neurot Recordings, on March 15th. The label has issued the decimating album track “Mente Bicameral” alongside preorders for the record.
While DEAFKIDS‘ previous release, Configuração Do Lamento, captured the group delving deep into their own diverse and discordant musical world, Metaprogramação pushes these elements to entirely new extremes. The band imprints a future-primitive psychic scenario into their music by weaving a fabric of electronic pulses, barrages of delay and noise, wailing guitars, and frenzied rhythms that ricochet aggressively between the speakers. Songs are urgent yet fluid, melting and dissolving into one another, culminating in a wild psychedelic journey that’s bound to reach one’s mind through the body while intoxicating both.
Steve Von Till of Neurosis and Neurot Recordings declares:
“DEAFKIDS is one of the most exciting bands I have heard in a very long time. They are a unique psychoactive journey of Brazilian polyrhythmic percussion, hypnotic chanting, and aggressive repetitive raw punk all echoing out from another dimension. Having had the blessed opportunity to play several shows with them in Europe and Brazil I can say that without a doubt, they are something new and mind blowing created from something old and primal. Their youthful energy is contagious, and their wisdom and deep knowledge of sound is beyond their years. Although raging and distorted, these sounds are medicinal, like some sort of sonic Ayahuasca. You have to surrender to it to find out where it is leading you. We are so lucky and proud to be able to work together with them and release their insane sounds in our corner of the universe. They are beautiful people making beautiful noise.”
DEAFKIDS offers of Metaprogramação:
“Deceived by perceiving our so-called individuality as a form of freedom, we are programmed to live and continue living as a fragmented and binary model of nature. Experimental numbers in a worldwide political power-game where human lives and its complexities, connections, necessities and environments are lowered in terms manipulated by algorithms, mind control and brutal force upon our conditions, our rights and our true will. Shaping, overwhelming, and fragmenting our tunnels of perception to the point where the excess of information becomes diffused and the whole contained within each being is more and more dispersed, confused, and disconnected, reflecting an insane image of ones identification with an artificial reality – where in some bizarre way, all these schizophrenic, corrupted and truculent theaters of domination and submission that appears all over human relations seems to make some sense – and of non-identification with what would be our inner reality, the telepathic level behind the veils where boundaries and divisions between us and the plane of consciousness, between you and the other don’t really exist. A level of reality where we might have the power to start learning how to reprogram ourselves by our own tools, being able to visit our internal hall of mirrors beyond space and time and deal with the negative roots of our condensed emotions and traumas trough a new perspective of relation and control with our thoughts, paths and everything we’re connected with. We must unite as one and resist against the violent symbols of oppression, including what’s imprinted on our own self, that must be daily sacrificed.”
Metaprogramação offers a vertiginous, sensory insight on these inner conflicts and aspects of the animal being. Do not allow yourself to be programmed.
Neurot Recordings will issue Metaprogramação on LP, CD, and digital platforms on March 15th. Find digital pre-orders at Bandcamp and physical pre-orders at the Neurot webshop.
DEAFKIDS will tour across Europe in support of the album this Spring, leading with two sets at Roadburn Festival April 11th and 12th, the tour lasting into early May. Watch for additional dates to be announced.
Metaprogramação track listing:
- “Vox Dei”
- “Alucinações de Comando”
- “Pacto de Máscaras”
- “Mente Bicameral”
- “Estímulos Alucinatórios Verbauditivos I”
- “Templo do Caos”
- “Espirais da Loucura”
- “Raíz Negativa (Não-Vontade)”
- “Camisa de Força (Inferno ou Sem Saida?)”
- “Vírus da Imagem do Ser”
- “Estímulos Alucinatórios Verbauditivos II”
- “Espirais da Loucura”
- “A Experiência Holotrópica”
Tour dates:
4/11 – Tilburg, NL | Roadburn Festival 2019
4/12 – Tilburg, NL | Roadburn Festival 2019
4/16 – Wroclaw, PL | DK. Luksus
4/17 – Prague, CZ | Underdogs
4/18 – Berlin, DE | Urban Spree
4/19 – Nijmegen, NL | Merleyn
4/20 – London, UK | The Lexington
4/21 – Manchester, UK | Soup Kitchen
4/22 – Brighton, UK | The Hope & Ruin
4/23 – Cardiff, UK | Moon
4/25 – Bristol, UK | Rough Trade
4/26 – Paris, FR | TBA
4/28 – Viana do Castelo, PT | SWR Barroselas Metalfest 2019
4/29 – Bruxelles, BE | Mag4
5/03 – Rouen, FR | Les 3 Pieces
5/04 – Antwerp, BE | Het Bos
5/05 – Donau, AU | Donai Festival 2019
