Late Night Ventures’ “Subcosmos” is an Epic Post-Metal Soundtrack for Motorized Urban Exploration After Dark

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Late Night Venture Subcosmos cover (cropped)

The video for “Subcosmos,” the title track to the new album by Late Night Venture, was shot in the western suburbs of Copenhagen. But the beginning of the song sounds like Deckerd is looking out on the Los Angeles of the future, whoops, November 20, 2019. But not to worry, the post-metal band quickly dives off the deep end into heavy, slow burning riffing that still somehow manages to sound like late night driving music for people into Isis and Neurosis. The guitar twirls and roils with the synth line in alternatively fiery and meditative passages in epic, upward sweeping arcs. Anyone that has spent some time exploring the urban landscape in a car knows that it isn’t just chill, quiet music that serves as the perfect soundtrack to the gritty mystery of that kind of adventure, it just needs to have a mood that feels like motion and provokes a mood and “Subcosmos” certain does that. Watch the dramatically enigmatic video on YouTube.

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