Stengah

With the world in chaos, exhilarating new music has become more important than ever before. As a result, the emergence of tech-metal mavericks STENGAH could hardly be better timed. One of the most exciting new bands on the planet, the Lille-based quintet have spent the last few years in a state of perpetual evolution, armed with some of the most visceral and forward-thinking riffs and refrains in recent memory. Both thrillingly primal and ferociously intelligent, this is music that aspires to enlighten and brutalise in equal measure. Talking about the song they say, "Above Inhumanity is a gloomy reverie, a suspended time, where you reach what's beyond the irrational. A tired mind abandoned to madness, vision and wisdom reduced to the merest fears, struggling with the darkest version of yourself."