Depressionland, by Bipolar Architecture

Depressionland

by Bipolar Architecture

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Ron Hogan 53 minutes: Perfect for an hour of pushing yourself hard on the treadmill, and the last track ("Papercuts") even helps bring you into the final cooldown, but not TOO quickly.

RJ It seems 2022 will be remembered for its high quality debut albums, including this one. Bipolar Architecture offer us a well arranged combination of blackened post-progressive djent-y musicianship. An aggressive performance with melancholic themes and atmosphere that is backed up with good production. 8/10 Favorite track: So I Altered.

Alice M. Prog / post stuff with slightly blackened sludgy harsh vocals that would put to shame many better-known bands, all the while maintaining a fairly atmospheric, sometimes even quite hazy, background going on.
Congratulations on that first full-length release! ⁰( o_o )⁰
I could have saved 1€ by only buying the tracks not included in the old EP, but that would have been lame as hell, haha.

starvynth "In a lot of ways, Depressionland is a pretty simple album, effective in its atmospheres and buildups, but simple nonetheless. It's an album that knows it's strengths, with the superb production aiding the atmospheric soundscape, and the lyrical side building upon the EP's philosophical and emotional backbone."

Full review: metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=17742

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1.	Depressionland 06:06	lyrics	buy track
DEPRESSIONLAND All i know we just survive In this Materialand, don’t need to cry All i know we’re all to die In this Depressionland, don’t need to fight Where villainy hailed as grace  All is fake sympathy  Don’t Belong, don’t exist!  After all, all in vain  Romance has come to end  All is just apathy  Don’t Belong, don’t exist!  After all, all in vain… In this Materialand we just survive  In this Depressionland we’re all to die  In this Materialand we just survive  In this Depressionland we’re all to die   Where villainy hailed as grace  All is fake sympathy  Don’t Belong, don’t exist!  After all, all in vain  Romance has come to end  All is just apathy  Don’t Belong, don’t exist!  After all, all in vain…
2.	The Criticizer 06:00	lyrics	buy track
THE CRITICIZER   I, the critic of the universe I, the critic of me the first   I’m so helpless and overwhelmed by these endless ill critics  Every single day I long for a consciousness, quiet and all motionless   Who am i? Why the fuck i design my faults?   I am only born to see  Nothing stays here constantly  I am only here to feel  What is there to make me real, make me bleed, make believe!    coz…  I am right, i am wrong, i am right, I am wrong, i am right and wrong  I feel sad, I feel great, I feel sad, i feel great, I feel sad and great  I am weak, i am strong, I am weak, I am strong, i am weak and strong  I am odd, I belong, I am odd, i belong, i am odd!
3.	Expectations 06:03	lyrics	buy track
EXPECTATIONS   Why do i fail every try to reach my climax?  Why do i bail expectations only enslave me?   As i stay just traumatic, dressing all my fear  and i stay cataclysmic and shattered by all means…   I admit, expectations sentence me to death  I’m aware, my ambition only makes me bad…
4.	If Words Were Swords 06:27	lyrics	buy track
Instrumental
5.	Dystopia Is The Reality 05:53	lyrics	buy track
DYSTOPIA IS THE REALITY   Oh, all those empty lives!  Surrounded by pride and poverty..  Did you really take a moment and think of..   What we all became and how we turned against ourselves..    Everyday, we’ve been filled with greed and  every time we paved the ways to be fair and humble.  All those wise men tried to shape  our lives with the lust for reign and power, never enough!  So it got worse and worse…   This world is not made by dignity.  Dystopia is the reality!  Those golds are not paid for honesty.  Dystopia is our fault!
6.	Surrealistic Forces 05:23	lyrics	buy track
SURREALISTIC FORCES   When darkness falls  They start to bother again and again  Dark voices of surrealistic forces…   Alone i break, don’t leave me here all alone!   I stay awake  They try to lure me again and again  Dark voices of surrealistic forces…   Alone i break, don’t leave me here all alone!  Alone i drain, don’t leave me here by myself!   Disconnect my neurons and all these cells, I beg!  Just renounce my brain and all its vague despair!  This could be my renaissance  and free me from this pain  Just enough i had, a miserable journey in vain…   Alone!   Alone i break, don’t leave me here all alone!  Alone i break, don’t leave me here all alone!  Alone i break, don’t leave me here all alone!  Alone i break, don’t leave me here by myself!
7.	The Tragic Protagonist 05:15	lyrics	buy track
THE TRAGIC PROTAGONIST   I watched the world  Setting in another day  With all its emptiness, tragedies   I watched the men  Setting in another day  With lies and vanity, selfishness   And I won’t be down on my knees, if that’s the consequence it brings, everything it brings  And i won’t consent to my faith, if that’s the only way it stays, only way it stays…   Oh my god!  I’ve been searching for the answers through my veins  and i’ve been leaning on the mountains may errupt  My god! I’ve been waiting for the cancer through my skin  and i’ve been bathing on the fountains may errupt…   Those mountains never take you in, to the place of only very brave Those fountains never let you in, the price of being crystal clear, clear!
8.	So I Altered 04:57	lyrics	buy track
SO I ALTERED   Chaos everywhere instead of harmony Fallen leaves of the tree of dignity! Left alone as they all want to set the Price of virtuousness as if it’s a thing to sell!  So i altered my only faith in men in the land of this hypocrisy...  In the land of this hypocrisy In the land of this hypocrisy!  So i altered my only way of hope So i altered my only will of faith So i altered my perspective to space So long!
9.	Papercuts 06:26	lyrics	buy track
PAPERCUTS   ...but everything starts to turn into grey again  I stand between empathy and anger of my thoughts  Self-destruct, inculcate myself, all alone!   Fade away, from the memories you’d failed!  Far away, better you disappear!  Once again, don’t let that hubris in!  Stay with me, i know it’s hard to stop...   I have these papercuts  They always lure me in the dark again  I hate these papercuts like you...   No, every single things starts again to suffocate  You’re lost in this war within right before my eyes  All alone!   Fade away, from the memories you’d failed!  Far away, better you disappear!  Once again, don’t let that hubris in!  Stay with me, i know it’s hard to stop...   I have these papercuts  They always lure me in the dark again  I hate these papercuts like you...

about

After two years spent gradually releasing singles, the Berlin-based Bipolar Architecture are finally ready to unleash their debut record, and we’re excited to partner with them in doing so! Featuring members of the death metal group Heretic Soul, Bipolar Architecture represents a move from the pummeling nihilism of their former band to a style that allows for more variation and nuance without sacrificing the intensity that has driven them to this point. This newly broadened canvas sees them touching down on both post- and prog-metal, with flourishes of djent, black metal, and even spacey post-rock working their way into the mix. The resulting record reveals impressive growth and carefully measured songwriting. Depressionland takes the considerable energy and ferocity these performers possess and focuses it in a manner which provides listeners essential moments of respite via spacious soundscapes while still maximizing the impact of its heavier elements.
Even with the band’s commitment to a more layered sound intact, the beating heart of Depressionland remains the raw aggression that has clearly motivated them since their earlier, more extreme musical phases. Post-metal fans will find much to rejoice in here, as most of the songs originate from the seething-menace-foreshadowing-thunderous-eruption template that the genre has long been built on. Putting aside the speed and technicality of death metal in favor of a more deliberate and diversified sound proves an astute adjustment. The widened scope creates a platform where the band can occasionally explore more restrained performance, which in turn opens an avenue for the more extreme moments to hit with even more potency than they would were they being supplied in unceasing waves.

Take, for example, the gradually building opening section of the album-opening title track. The initial slow burn of palm-muted guitars and throbbing toms leads the listener steadily into the first verse, at which point a small handful of straightforward chords can cut right to the listener’s gut, carrying significantly more weight than they might were they lost in a maelstrom of violent riffing. Part of what makes Bipolar Architecture such an exciting band, though, is the way in which they prove unsatisfied simply following a single course. Just around the time that one may be feeling settled into the sturdy mid-tempo of the track’s front half, the band transitions to a higher gear and charges forward at a galloping pace with a passage that leans considerably into the breathless impetus of black metal.

It isn’t the only time they move seamlessly from one stylistic approach to another. “Expectations” begins as something akin to a darkened take on post-rock before moving briefly into an inspired verse that suddenly soars into vigorous incline. Once this feverish segment breaks and releases the song back to a slightly more subdued state, the stage has been set, with everything that follows feeling even more dynamic, including the hastened groove of the track’s djent-laced finale. This is immediately followed by the album’s lone instrumental, “If Words Were Swords,” which sees the band further honing their abundant artistic chemistry, channeling what would typically be narrative-guiding vocal melodies into a series of guitar leads that adeptly assume that role and navigate the song skillfully through all its paces. In some ways it functions as a transitional piece bridging the front and back halves of the record, yet still it presents as a standout composition. This commitment to moment-by-moment craftsmanship carries through each of Depressionland’s nine tracks.

If you’ve been following Bipolar Architecture through the slow unveiling of individual songs during the past two years, you’ll no doubt find your expectations met and even exceeded by Depressionland’s harmonious union of already-released and heretofore-unheard material. If you’re coming to the band for the first time, be ready for a record that satisfies all the familiar post-metal itches while also holding some welcome surprises within its dexterous repertoire of creative resources.

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released June 24, 2022

Songs written by Bipolar Architecture
Sound Engineering by Fabian Hildebrandt

Dunk! Records
Talheim Records Germany

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Bipolar Architecture Berlin, Germany

Bipolar Architecture is a band that mixes the different genres of metal such as Post-metal, Progrressive Metal, Djent, Core and even Post-rock parts you may find in it.

The band members are the ex-death metallers Heretic Soul members which the band published 2 full length album from Rotting Corpse Records (USA) and PRCC Music (Canada).

The band played in many festivals over Europe for years... ... more

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Jul 31

Cetatea Rasnov

Râșnov, Romania
Aug 14

Fernhill Farm

Compton Martin, UK
Nov 29

Club Zentral

Stuttgart, Germany

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