Lars Gotrich

This is probably the quietest you'll ever hear the first metal band to play the Tiny Desk.

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The band's dark metallic prophecies give the end times a gracefully vicious soundtrack in "The Seer's Embrace."

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After a few months taking care of his newborn, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich is back with buzzing Ethiopian hymns and Tuareg folk songs, but also white-hot psych-rock and a modular synth frenzy.

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