Satelles

Satelles


From the first notes of The Unsung Victim, Satelles begins laying disturbing admissions on the table again. The Budapest based hardcore/punk band opens up with their frustrations as they recount their anger, longing and searching for clarity on the songs of 3AM Confessions, the successor of 21-minutes long angst-parade full-length, Some Got Saved (2018). 

Perhaps the albums’ most relatable statement is not between the lines anymore: the red, white and green artwork along with the refrain of Copper and Rust with the lines of ‘you took our colours, you took our faith’ reflects on the current political climate of the Eastern-European authoritarian leaderships and the needed spark to gather the yet apolitical young generations around a soon-to-be-enlighten spectral fire. 

3AM Confessions traverses the full range of negative emotions around generational questions without any particular feeling of hope. The communal needs through these songs are resonating on a quite diverse palette, expanding Satelles’ melodic hardcore vision with post-hardcore, blues and folklore elements. At the end of the record there’s no easy way-out, although a search for a wished destination organises the album into a journey for salvation through rhetorical questions about our society. But the bands’ only answer is an uncomfortable ride on the longest Satelles full-length, mixed by Markus Matzinger (Implore, Six-Score), mastered by Alan Douches (Modern Life Is War, Converge, The Dillinger Escape Plan).


 

 

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