Netherlands doesn’t deal in half-measures. Driven by Timo Ellis’ ethos of making music that’s “light-hearted, brutal, and ecstatic,” the band trades restraint for full-throttle intensity: shredding riffs, soaring falsettos, and hooks that border on delirium. What results is a sonic barrage—decades of musical bombast distilled into mind-warping slabs of psychotropic rock bliss.
Now pared down to a high-powered duo, their live shows hit like an adrenaline overdose, leaving audiences awestruck (just ask fans of Mutoid Man, Retox, or Melt-Banana). But beneath the blitz lies a strange elegance. Falsetto vocals, twisted time signatures, and eerie melodies turn ferocity into finesse—conjuring a sound that feels like Swans and Dio sharing a stage on a peak made of pure MDMA.
The duo describes the song
CASUAL MONSTERS: "The lyrics are about regular people’s ability to be gradually bamboozled into ideological conformity by their society’s status quo social engineers, which IMO appears to be happening more terrifying than ever right now, in the context of (just for one glaring example) the still relatively huge popular U.S. support for the mass-murderous adventures of the gleefully sadistic/ racist IDF, and their (our) U.S. imperial benefactors/political and military managers, and musically, it’s kinda like RATM meets Simon and Garfunkel meets Tito Puente, lol."
It's very difficult to put this one into a label, as it's got elements of fusion, alternative metal, prog rock and so many others... Fantastic drumming, weird vocal lines and my favourite element, probably the enormous guitar riff. A difficult song to describe, so give it a go without hesitation and remember to follow CASUAL MONSTERS on social media.
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