Leech is the newest strain of black metal interpretation, or at least Americas ever struggling integration of the genre through out all of our metal subcultures. It's black metal without the NS taint, the worship of odin or satan, and the love of all things green. Crusty hippie evil, if you will.
With bands like
Book of Black Earth
Wolves in the Throne Room
and Fall of the Bastards
It seems that cult metal has found a progressive center on the west coast and stripped out all preconceptions of euro-viking posturing. Something most nations with a love for black metal (Columbia, Greece, and even china) have failed to do.
Or as leech puts it:
"We take no influence from snowy mountain peaks or satanic imagery, but instead from environmental devastation, anti-modernism, and the bleak, monotonous drudgery that is everyday living in a dying world driven by ignorance, corruption, and greed."
That's pretty fucking metal to me.
Streaming myspace tracks
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