Like: Agriculture, Liturgy, Deafheaven
Label: The Flenser
Adjectives: Tormenting, Bleak, Desolate
Description: The Promise of Rain, the second album from the experimental black metal group Scarcity, embodies the profound realization that challenges become more manageable when shared, a concept that the band's Brendon Randall-Myers deeply explored during the album's composition. The upcoming album appears to pick up where the band's previous release, Aveilut, left off. For instance, new track and video, In The Basin Of Alkaline Grief, creates a captivating trip, depicting a bleak landscape of internal turmoil and yearning.
The inspiration for the lyric for The Promise of Rain stemmed from a journey Moore embarked on to the high deserts of southern Utah in 2023. The artist reflects: “To thrive in the desert is an act of abnegation, you do right by the land and receive its gifts, or it does away with you.”
