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<p><span style="font-weight: 400">KTHRTK’s debut album </span><b><i>Dreams Are The Only Safe Place To Hide</i></b><span style="font-weight: 400"> draws from metalcore, math metal, technical death metal, symphonic metal, groove metal, nu metal, etc. The hitch is that project mastermind Doug Berns finds an unprecedented level of tunefulness not only in all the different styles of screaming he employs, but in the cymbals, drum heads, bass rumble and 7-string guitar distortion. </span></p>
<p><b>WATCH: VIDEO FOR THEIR SINGLE &#8220;FUNERAL&#8221;: preview </b><a href="https://youtu.be/Xfi7rWWaa74"><b>here</b></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Alongside </span><b>Berns</b><span style="font-weight: 400">&#8216; pummeling 7-string guitar riffs and arsenal of howls, the album features extreme metal/jazz-fluent drummer extraordinaire </span><b>Alex Cohen</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> (</span><b>Contrarian</b><span style="font-weight: 400">, </span><b>Pyrrhon</b><span style="font-weight: 400">, </span><b>Imperial Triumphant</b><span style="font-weight: 400">) and guitar solos</span><b>—</b><span style="font-weight: 400">more like mini-compositions</span><b>—</b><span style="font-weight: 400">courtesy of </span><b>Sean Salant</b><span style="font-weight: 400">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Berns spent years as a touring member of Afrobeat groups like </span><b>Antibalas</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> and </span><b>EMEFE</b><span style="font-weight: 400"> and is currently part of legendary NYC nightclub </span><b>Cafe Wha</b><span style="font-weight: 400">&#8216;s house band. He&#8217;s nurtured a love for metal since discovering Iron Maiden’s iconic “Aces High” at 13. While also steeping himself in funk, soul, jazz and Afrobeat, Berns latched onto classic proto-metal groups like Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Dio and UFO. Before long, his tastes grew to include harsher, more technical fare like Meshuggah, Death, Fit For An Autopsy, Tesseract and After the Burial. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The unsettling </span><a href="https://youtu.be/Xfi7rWWaa74"><span style="font-weight: 400">video</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> for &#8220;Funeral&#8221; brings to life the album&#8217;s gut-punching themes of betrayal and anguish. As intense as the music gets, though, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400">Dreams Are The Only Safe Place To Hide</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400"> presents anger not as a one-note expression but as a lifelike, three-dimensional range of experience. Grief, bitterness, shock, paralysis, depression, the thirst for revenge and, ultimately, triumph all find a voice within Berns’ vibrant, furiously determined vision of what metal can be. </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-weight: 400">photo: Stephanie Augello</span></i></p>
<p><b>KTHRTK online:</b></p>
<p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/3nPeSoogwD1hpiwDs758Fv?si=BJvNKNsoRL6aAT83oedppw"><b>Spotify</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://kthrtk.bandcamp.com/"><b>Bandcamp</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@kthrtk8619/"><b>YouTube</b></a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kthrtkmetal/"><b>Instagram</b></a></p>

KTHRTK Releases Debut Full Length Dreams Are The Only Safe Place To Hide
