Lorenzo
A cinematic, dark exploration into gothic tinged drone-doom metal filled with noise and experimental touches. The feel is vast but dense, as if formed in lush valleys shrouded in fog. Weaving synths and guitars together in a haunting fashion, Insect Ark continue their focused efforts in making every moment, no matter how gentle or thunderous, as dynamic as possible.
Raw Blood Singing represents this band's most compelling release that is able to give a literal voice to the swirling emotions
Maxrock
Uncomfortable and beautiful sounds encompassing all the best elements from previous work, and improving on them.
Favorite track: Youth Body Swayed.
Erik Salazar
This is a stunning release. Insect Ark continue to refine their mix of experimental doom, avant-garde, psychedelic, noise and drone sounds and have created their best and most realized work to date. The music is at times heavy and crushing, but at others soft and tender, creating a beautiful and immersive experience. Highly recommended if you like King Woman, Earth and Nadja.
Favorite track: The Frozen Lake.
Der Ohlsen
"I don't know if Dana Schechter's work with Michael Gira inspired her to add singing to her multiple chores [...], but his influence is definitely present in some of her phrasings, but also in the weight of her lyricism, which seems like a very natural extension of the music.
While of course adding new layers of sound and meaning both the words and the way they're uttered take absolutely no time to adjust to [...]"
MKUltra
Appreciating the growth of Schecter's vision since it's inception. Absolutely solid work here. It might just be me, but--- picking up some subtle Swans influences, and that's not to take away that this is her project, but the time playing with Gira may just have taken her own approach to that next level. Needs room to breathe, and when you do just that, the payoff is impressive.
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INSECT ARK is the Berlin-based duo of American artists Dana Schechter (SWANS) on bass/lap steel/synth/vocals, and drummer/percussionist Tim Wyskida (KHANATE, BLIND IDIOT GOD).
"Raw Blood Singing" - INSECT ARK's fourth full-length - is the captivating result of a year spent writing. Sharing an obsession with innovation and distillation, the duo merged to create a sonic landscape which vacillates between sensory overload and isolation in a seething void. Many of the songs on "Raw Blood Singing" were penned alone in 2021 by Schechter; they were gutted, reworked and rebirthed when Wyskida joined in 2022.
The outer realms of avant-Metal, psych-Doom, and experimental Goth intersect here, but INSECT ARK fiercely refuses the trappings of simple genre categorization. The band weave a lush, bleak, vast and expansive landscape as they move from whispers of synth to a monstrous wall-of-sound via Schechter's blistering lap steel playing, diabolical bass-work and the mammoth, searing power of Wyskida's drums.
The album title is deeply rooted in the concept of evolution - on both a human and a universal scale – stories of physical beings bound by equal parts unchangeable matter and malleable, shape-shifting energy. The music, too, has evolved beyond INSECT ARK's origin as an instrumental band, adding for the first-time the deep honeyed poison of Schechter's vocals. Showing a penchant for crafting haunted and memorable melodies, the contrast of her smoky voice with the spare, brutal music feels both uncomfortably intimate and icy cold.
credits
released June 7, 2024
Dana Schechter - Bass, Vocals, Lap Steel Guitar, Synthesizers, Piano.
Tim Wyskida - Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals.
Ville Leppilahti - Guest Piano on "Cleaven Hearted", Synthesizers on "The Hands" and "Psychological Jackal".
Colin Marston - Guest Synthesizers on "Inverted Whirlpool".
Music written by Dana Schechter and Tim Wyskida.
Lyrics written by Dana Schechter.
Album Photography by Chris Friel.
Layout Design/Composites by Dana Schechter.
Band Photo by Lupus Lindemann.
Recorded by Nikos Giagkoudakis and Socrates Bebis at Unreal Studio, Athens.
Assistant Engineering by Alex Ketenjian and Nikos Dimitrakakos.
Produced by Insect Ark and Nikos Giagkoudakis.
Additional Production and Recording, Torben Utecht, Dana Schechter, Berlin.
Mixed by Colin Marston at Menegroth Studios, New York.
Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks, Pennsylvania.
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I've come across this band several times, sampled their work, but never found any moment that convinced me to buy. 'Tales Of The Old Dreamer' is the gem I've been looking for. The atmosphere from 5:07 onwards is otherworldly, a type of post-black metal with depth and atmosphere that could astonish even the most experienced listener. The cover artwork fits the darkened soundscapes explored here. I don't listen to the other tracks much, because I'm always drawn back to the old dreamer's tale. Obsidian One
Another gnarled masterpiece by SoCal's most reliable one-man industrial doom machine, all harrowing screams and rusted, sawtoothed beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2025
