In the seething subterranean circuits of the Chilean underground, The Deadly Affair has erupted like a slow-motion landslide. A new force built on bruised frequencies, the trio summons something that sneers at structure and scorns symmetry. Their approach feels more invocation than arrangement: guitars smoulder and screech, rhythms writhe and rupture, and reverb billows out like smoke from a scorched chapel. The result is a sonic séance that conjures the ghost-wracked tension of Swans, a Lynchian cinematic dread, and the apocalyptic poetry of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, channeled through the spectral grandeur of Anna von Hausswolff, Sqürl with a heavy dose of early Slowdive.
Line in Heaven, the lead single from their debut LP Visions Through The Sense of Silence, is a spiked chalice of dread and devotion. It unfolds like a fever dream at half-speed: spoken spells, tremoring toms, and guitar tones that bloom and buckle beneath their own pressure.
At the black heart of the song is Santiago González Lihn, whose voice – part sermon, part spell, booms with Old Testament intensity. One moment hushed and conspiratorial, the next erupting into full-blown prophetic thunder, he drags the listener through devouring terrain: desire, decay, damnation. Anchoring this dirge is Louise Schmidt’s bass, a lead weight in a sky of ash. Her lines rumble like distant thunder, grounding the group’s more ethereal elements. Her voice, too, joins the fray: not ornamental, but elemental, woven into the song like smoke in stone. Diego Lorca (ex-Föllakzoid) mans the drums with a mechanic’s muscle and a shaman’s precision. Each beat lands like a ritual blow, cold and deliberate, fueling the track’s march through chaos with a discipline that feels martial, even sacred.
Silence and surge, lull and laceration: Line in Heaven operates in the purgatory between extremes. It’s a song as séance, a hymn to upheaval, a deliberate destabilization of comfort. Listen below:
The Deadly Affair’s debut album Visions Through The Sense of Silence is a stark and hypnotic descent into brooding atmospheres and unrelenting tension, where spoken incantations, cavernous rhythms, and raw instrumentation build towards something both ominous and deeply cathartic. Produced by Atom™, a pioneering figure whose work has continuously reshaped experimental music for decades, the record carries a sense of precise unease, immersing the listener in its bleak yet spellbinding landscape.
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