New York metal band Nefariant dropped new metal track without a guitar!

Metal music where a piano is replacing the guitars? The New York metal band Nefariant took up the challenge, and shows us how (heavy) that sounds on their new single/video ‘Beg‘. ‘Beg‘ is the first single of the upcoming 7 tracks counting EP ‘Noct‘, scheduled for release on Friday, February 9, 2024, and handles the unwilling acceptance of lust and the disastrous consequences of it.

Frontman Jason Lekberg:

“Nefariant creates what we term ‘brutal elegance’: a new expression of metal music that works without a guitar. The band’s defining feature is an elemental accord between word and music that showcases their embrace of contradiction in sound, lyrics, and visual presence. It also points to the complexity of each composition – not always technically –but structurally: clean vocals and growls in antiphonal dialogue; piano and/or bass figures where the common expectation would be guitar licks.“

NEFARIANT (from left to right on the picture): bassist Dan Martinez (Guhts, Alekhine’s Gun), pianist Paul Cibrano, vocalist Jason Lekberg (ex-IKILLYA), en  drummer Drew Maciejewski (ex-IKILLYA).