Revel in 'Designated Silence' the debut single for fresh Australian band Iridesica

Allow yourself to sink down, deep down, and feel the unrepentent power of Iridesica’s incredible debut single, ‘Designated Silence’ (released 20th March). 

Iridesica has arrived, emerging from the depths, intent on dragging listeners close and entrancing them within seconds of the song's beginning. An eerie and ethereal distorted pipe organ sound setting the tone, reminiscent of Davy Jones’ love song in tone, mournful yet beautiful, cinematic and intense. 

Matilda Greene’s guitar melds with the big, dramatic sound smoothly, adding a churning, disorientating element that sends shivers down your spine.

Greene’s guitar sends the track spinning, dizzyingly, and welcomes listeners on an intoxicating whirl with her, eventually bringing the song into a heavier, grittier place neatly. The transition between a cinematic pipe organ and sludgy, grinding, metal is expertly managed by Greene’s playing on both bass and guitar, and kickstarted by Holmes’ drums, restrained yet heavy hitting. 

Greene’s clean vocals open the track, sweet, airy, and detached, as though floating above, particularly in comparison to the passionate, harsh scream vocals of Sean Holmes that cut through the track like a roar. 

Their voices work together beautifully, capturing what sounds like an internal argument, a push and pull between the hopeful and the hopeless, the judged and the judge, of a person trying to scrabble free and insecurities pushing them down, intruding in their mind. 

The contrast is powerful and is reflected in their musicality, as the track progresses, the lighter, fretful, melancholic tone competes with an incessant, demanding heavy, angst-filled edge. Eventually the track tumbles beautifully into a truly sludgy, progressive metalcore sound, the lightness stripped away, that sets your heart-pumping, as Holmes’ harsh vocals cry out the final lines of the song: 

Die Lose yourself FUCK Worthless piece of scum

The song ends in that familiar churning swirl, far heavier than where we began, the mournful yet loving sound of the pipe organ gone, with one guitar playing an addictive, galloping, rasping chug. However, there is  another guitar tone that remains,  frantic, panicked, playing a twisting, hypnotic solo over the heavy, decisive drums, that feels like hope. Like a fight not yet lost. 

‘Designated Silence’ is a track that feels bold and refreshing, immediately captivating, and thrilling the whole song through. It’s an incredible start to a hopefully long, illustrious career for the fledgling band that is Iridesica. 

STREAM ‘DESIGNATED SILENCE’ ON YOUTUBE, APPLE MUSIC, SPOTIFY, AND ALL MAJOR STREAMING PLATFORMS. 

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