By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam
Review: Negativehate’s album Shapeshifter – Release date: August 26, 2023
‘Shapeshifter’ just might be a perfect name for an album with such, well, shapeshifting music as the one Western NY band Negativehate have included on their lates, bearing such name.
The band is branded as post-metal, but that post tag includes everything from prog rock and jazz to shoegaze and metal itself, very often, all evident in a single song, like on ‘Infinity Bias,’ the opener here.
Such ‘shapeshifting could be a great obstacle if you don’t know your way either around songwriting or your instruments, but Freedom Scheyd and the rest of the crew seem to manage both quite admirably.
Having formed in 2012 and with big gaps in when their first albums released, it seems now Negativehate are releasing with more regularity, which means they’re gearing up to really establish this concept with Shapeshifter. According to producer and co-guitar/vocalist Chuck Scandura, is as much about the science and spirituality of sound as it is about the multi-genre jam band feel.
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