If It's Too Loud...

Chamber metal might not be a genre you'd associate with If It's Too Loud..., when Anareta do it, it just works for us. The New Orleans based band recently released a new single, "Unforgiving Sun," that is undeniably theatrical. In my experience, strings being included in a metal song tend to be more of a novelty. With Anareta, it somehow adds to the heaviness of the song, and this song is plenty heavy without them. Of course, with "Unforgiving Sun," you can't imagine the song without them. It's just such an integral part of the song. Anareta have made a song perfect for all metalheads, and the pure creativity is going to suck in even those who aren't. The band says of their new single: "' Unforgiving Sun'  is inspired by the interminable summers of New Orleans; the air thickens, tourism slows to a trickle, storefronts shutter. The sun-soaked blacktop radiates heat long past dusk's false promise of respite. As this song opens we l...

We've all heard metal with strings before, but no one is doing it quite like Anareta. The New Orleans based band are combining classical music with intense metal for a sound called chamber-metal. "Locality" shows off their sound perfectly. While a lot of metal with strings can kind of sound like a novelty, Anareta doesn't feel that way. The strings accentuate the force of the song that would be a brutal and killer track even without the strings included. As with a lot of music that we cover, "Locality" won't be for everyone, but if it works for you this is going to hit you hard and attach itself to your soul. Anareta says of the song: "' Locality'  was the first song to coalesce when we began crafting our sound in early 2018, so it feels exciting and appropriate that it is also the first single announcing the release of our debut album  Fear Not .  Through an evolving collaborative process, we combined our musical tastes to produce a sound b...