Satelles: Arcadia

Description

Sharing the same line-up in the past eight years, Satelles constantly improved their sound inspired by ‘00s melodic hardcore of Sinking Ships or Verse along with the transitional phase of metalcore with the likes of Misery Signals, Poison The Well or Shai Hulud. IDIOTEQ named  their second album, ‘Some Got Saved’ (2018) as “another worthy addition to the legacy of European melodic hardcore”, No Echo compared them to Counterparts, and Hungarian premiere underground webzine NuSkull have chosen their latest release as the album of the year in 2021. In the past years they played with the likes of Rise Against, Comeback Kid, Bane, Trial, Endzweck and Renounced too, and they had three European tours where they (re-)visited 12 countries.

Bandcamp: https://satelles.bandcamp.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/satellesband

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/satellesband/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@STICKASAPACK

Substack hírlevél: https://satelles.substack.com/

The band identified by their Eastern-European spleen secures now their own vision about the Arcadian trope, mankind’s distinction between a welcoming utopia worth to be built and a chaotic, barren ground driven by anger itself. The release also touches on the topics of societal dynamics and autocratic narrations across Eastern-Europe, similarly to the band’s previously known social sensitivity and vision about taking a bold stand against any forms of oppression.

On ‘Arcadia’, Satelles also revisits their past. The four-tracks release boldly touches the transitioning metalcore inspirations from the 2000s, resembling with the heritage of Shai Hulud, Misery Signals, Poison the Well or Heartscarved, while the main driver of the songs can be still defined with the bittersweet, Eastern-European melodic hardcore tone what the band tried to secure in the past years. Unlike the previous two full-lengths, there’s only a soft veil of concept around the Arcadian trope, personal revelations and the Eastern-European societies’ Messiah-complex with a hard take on nationalism.

ARCADIA is a crowd-funded release from the start: the recordings were also covered by a helpful group of supporters, and the vinyl release will also be available by the help of Hanaton’s fundraiser for a one-sided 12” pressing.