Misery that sounds like pop
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- 13 Jan 2023
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All set to perform in Chennai on January 14, this quartet from Germany blends heavy guitars with ambient synthesisers to create ‘Pop Metal’
At the helm of 2023, Goethe-Institut Chennai’s first concert of the year will showcase the German band The New Misery who has a promising maxim. This quartet from Berlin believes in taking the sullen moments from life and turning them into music and art.
Formed in 2020, the boy band expresses dark thoughts through the unique genre of ‘pop metal’, which is a coming together of heavy guitars with ambient synthesisers. The band — comprising Julian Boehm-Tettelbach (vocals), Johann Brummer (guitar) Jonas Kreschnak (bass) and Maxim Boehm-Tettelbach (drums) — released their debut single ‘Trapped’ last year.
Twenty four-year-old Julian, the quartet’s vocalist, songwriter and producer, says, “Pop and metal are contrasting genres but I wanted to bridge the gap and combine them in a way which is still cohesive.” The artiste explains that he wanted to take the lightness and catchy tunes of pop and merge it with the heaviness of metal — a genre he grew up listening to — and create the groundwork for a new genre that illumines the gloomy thoughts that pervade the mind. Read More…
