IN A WORLD where every time you go to the farmer’s market all the kale is gone already and it seriously bums you out, there lives a man. This man is a botanist, and he’s seen his fair share of fucked-up farmer’s markets. Indeed he has seen so many that he has “gone mad at witnessing the destruction of the natural environment at the hands of man.” This man’s story must be told, and, naturally, it must be told by the able hands of an experimental metal group. Enter Botanist. The group, led by the mysterious Otrebor, has told just such a story over the course of their last several albums, including most recently last year’s IV: Mandragora. With their work not yet finished, the group plans to return on August 11 with another full-length entitled VI: Flora.
Issuing forth from The Verdant Realm — a happy place where organic kale flows like milk and honey from the mouth of God — the music on VI: Flora will explore avenues previously unexplored in metal, including most prominently, distorted hammered dulcimers, 12-string basses, and actual plants that they plug in to guitar amps just to see what would happen. Pre-orders for the new album via California’s The Flenser will begin on July 9. Until then, sate your all-too-human avarice on the below-embedded track from the album entitled “Callistemon,” and maybe lay off some of the earth mother’s lush gifts for a while, why don’t ya?
VI: Flora tracklist:
01. Stargazer
02. Callistemon
03. Cinnamomum Parthenoxylon
04. Gleditsia
05. Rhizophora
06. Dianthus
07. Leucadendron Argenteum
08. Pteridophyte
09. Wisteria
10. Erythronium
11. …Gazing…
• Botanist: http://www.botanist.nu
• The Flenser: http://theflenser.com
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