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The Starving Artists announce new album
"Luthori Tour a success", says Mel Arnhart
Eshar, Odufaray
October 1, 5494


Mellie and Andre Arnhart, along with Bassist Nathan Black at M7 Interview

The Starving Artists, back from Luthori, have spent the last year and a half in LCR studios in Sulari recording their newest album called Metal on Metal. At a recent interview given to KRTVN M-7, the band announced the new album which ventures into Industrial and sounds much harder than their previous work.

"We were like uh really inspired by the different sounds in Luthori," said lead singer Andre Arnhart. "Their music scene was very interesting, and we were thrilled at the turn out for our shows there in the country. But this is, has, you know, given us a different direction to try and focus on. We heard some music there which sounded a lot like like a rusty saw blade sawing away on some lumber with a bunch of nails in it. Some experimental stuff, while we were out checking out some of the clubs. It sounded real industrial, and we were thinking that Kalistan didn't really do a lot of industrial and we decided to try it out."

Mel Arnhart, keyboardist and co-songwriter, said "Well, I am not sure whether there is a huge audience for music this loud in Kalistan. But I think the dissonance is really part of the process. We were kind of inspired I think by like what must be AI generated music. Like it is there, all the elements are there, but there is just something different, a little strange, a little foreign. It feels a little different from the things we've done. A lot of it was inspired by just the familiar but slightly different types of music we heard in Luthori. They definitely do not play music this loud there, but I mean it was a strange experience to be speaking to fans, and they just have different words for the same things, like conceptually the things are the same, but the words are different enough and Luthori is just different enough from Vrassan that you sometimes have to wonder if you just heard what you thought you heard."

The new album, which will be released next February, sees the band foray into not only industrial, but also electronica, dance pop, and psychedelic/acid rock. "We wanted to make a record that kinda spanned the entire alternative music genre," said Andre Arnhart. "There's a lot of noise alternative on here, for sure, but some of the songs are kinda of like you might call them dancey music, like we have a sequencer and everything. You'd have no idea but a lot of the voices were sequenced by Mel. They aren't even real- they're kind of this AI generative stuff. Its kind of this messy, creative stuff where we try to push music forward."

The lead video "You've Got Problems I can't Solve" features legendary metal guitarist Mike Knife, and falls solidly into the categories of noise acid rock. "Well, this one was specifically inspired by a great noise alternative band we saw in Luthori," said Mel Arnhart. "We were hanging out with these great kids in Fort William right after we got there and they were like 'You wanna check out this club' or whatever, and we went and heard this band, what were they called... like Bloody Blinder or whatever... something like that... it meant something like 'its easy' or something. Anyway, these guys had the biggest sound we've heard in like ever, it was so crunchy and loud and grindy. When we got back, and we started writing, I could swear we were accidentally ripping them off, so I had to buy one of their records, just to make sure that 'Problems' wasn't like a total rip off. Turns out it wasn't even in the same key or rhythm or anything, but you know that song is a total homage to that band."

The video for the song, which is already released and is playing on M7, is entirely generated by AI and features no actual humans or locations at all. "Yeah, we made a deal with this AI animator," said Nathan Black, who plays bass for the band. "We saw some of his stuff in a gallery in Gendaris, and thought man this is really cutting edge and weird, I thought Andre would really dig it for the record."

The new album will be released ahead of a Kalistani tour in the Summer. "We've had a pretty long career," said Andre Arnhart. "15 years... full of ups and downs, and we are still experimenting and pushing the boundaries. I'd say that's damn good all things considered." When asked if they would ever return to Luthori for another tour, both Arnharts said in unison, "In a heartbeat..."

Check out The Starving Artists' new video for "You've Got Problems I can't Solve, Feat. Mike Knife" from their upcoming 5th album Metal on Metal for LCR, coming in February.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3H2AVm1uD8]