Oriska - Self Titled

Oriska - Self TitledAvailable on purple and white wax Oriska is a blackened post metal collective headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota with members dispersed across California, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. Featuring ex members of Battlefields (Init Records, Translation Loss), Dispensing of False Halos & Sleeping in Gethsemane (Init Records), Oriska draws influence from their past outfits while crafting a unique blend of doom, post metal and screamo into songs

who—in addition to producing Sparhawk’s records—has been collaborating and performing with Sparhawk for years

Yet shadow cannot exist without light

it’s often easy to settle down and get a little too comfortable

and climactic percussion

echoed again in 'Fireflies'

“It’s about being nice to everyone around you

They had the heritage and recognition of being the only band that performed at the festivities that signaled the end of slavery in Pará in 1888

Nothing’s music has always captured the full scale of the human condition

but its anti-establishment feel and general madness took the Expo organizers by surprise and it was cancelled after only one night

adaptability and long standing relationship together as musicians

the band manages to sound powerfully spacious and lazily serene all at once

as well as new members Robert Harris (guitarist) and John Schofield (drummer)