[news] Death doom act World Controler return with "Posthuman Era"

After nine years, Canada's death doom act World Controler return with a new full-length, Posthuman Era.

The album is built on long songs, heavy riffs and tragic melodies, with clean and growled vocals, melodic bass lines, occasional bursts of speed, Iron Maiden-style guitar harmonies and short church organ passages.

Lyrically, Posthuman Era follows Ewe, the last surviving human after a future apocalypse. Her mind has been uploaded into an android body, and she lives in a dead world with only one companion, a disembodied voice called AF. Together, they cross the ruined planet to find out why the apocalypse happened and why Ewe was saved from the same fate as the rest of humanity.

Frontperson The World Controller says: "This is our first album in nine years. I didn’t know if I would ever return to this project, but here we are. I had the obsessive compulsion to write a story about an android girl lost in a future hellscape and started immediately on Posthuman Era. I have been fascinated by androids ever since I was a child. I remember watching early episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation with my mom and dad in the late 80s and just falling in love with Data. Ever since then, I have been intrigued by androids, robots and cyborgs. I love exploring the sci-fi trope of exploring humanity through non-human characters. Eventually, I settled on the character Ewe. She has the mind of the last living human being uploaded into an android body. Does this make her a cyborg? I say no, as there are no biological components. When you take the thoughts out of the human brain, they are just electric signals. So would this make you less human, despite still having all of your human memories? Ewe and her only friend AF, a disembodied voice, live alone in a future where all humanity has died, the skies are torn away, the oceans are polluted, and the very continents have been reshaped by a world-ending weapon. They leave their ruined home to find answers as to why the apocalypse happened and why Ewe was spared the fate that damned billions of humans."

Posthuman Era is available on Bandcamp and major streaming platforms.

For fans of Candlemass, Skepticism and Woods of Ypres.

Links:
Bandcamp: https://worldcontroller.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/68IcbxKlHtCdOIscTNxjb9