Photo: Justin Cowley
Boston, Massachusetts-based trio, LESOTHO presents their debut album, Through the Dying Light.
Formed in the quarantine days of 2020, LESOTHO released their Summer Wars debut EP in 2021 which quickly cemented their place as an up-and-coming artist to watch in the New England alternative metal scene. As Distorted Sound magazine put it, “as a result of a mutual love for instrumental heavy music, the band quickly established their raison d’être; to dazzle us the listener with cathartic and challenging music.”
The ten songs on LESOTHO’s Through the Dying Light encompass 50 minutes of mesmerizing, instrumental post-metal performed by guitarist Kyle Loffredo, bassist Cliff Cazeau, and drummer Zach Ganshirt, with guest lap steel on ‘Flicker’ by Phil Todisco and a guest vocal performance on ‘Floater’ by Molly Grace Chandler. The album was recorded at The Bridge Sound & Stage – formerly known as Fort Apache Studios, the site of the creation of ISIS’ post-metal epic, Oceanic – with Alex Allinson handling the engineering, recording, and mixing duties, after which the tracks were sent to Mario Quintero of NYC doomgaze act Spotlights who handled mixing at Audio//MQ. The album features artwork and a visual collaboration provided by Thibeault Landemaine and Anaïs Ferreira of the Jack Hillside Collective based in Bordeaux, France
Bassist Cliff Cazeau introduces our premiere track, ‘Crown of Echoes’.
“Ironically enough, this is actually kind of an older song for us. We originally had finished composing it and locking in all the parts right before our sessions to record our EP, Summer Wars. We even recorded it live as a special introduction for the live performance we did to accompany that record. After sitting on it for a bit, we ended up taking it back to The Bridge for the TTDL sessions and somehow made what was already one of our particularly heavy songs somehow even heavier, haha. We love playing this one live and we all definitely feel like it captures a lot of the dynamics of what our sound has evolved into with this album. Heavy. Quiet. Dark. Feels.”
LESOTHO will independently release Through the Dying Light digitally on April 7, with a limited edition cassette in the works. Find preorders at Bandcamp HERE.
LESOTHO Live:
3/24/2023 The Jungle – Somerville, MA w/ Blue Manic, Rougarou, Eight Foot Manchild
4/15/2023 Tafetta – Lowell, MA release show w/ The Sound That Ends Creation, Sunflo’er, Lotus Eater Machine, Karate Steve
