HIRSCH EFFEKT BASSIST and co-vocalist Ilja John Lappin categorises his band’s music as“progressive metal with an indie touch”. It’s a description that drastically undersells their restless eclecticism. Since forming in 2008, the trio have become one of prog’s weirdest bands, with the list of genres they’ve folded into their canon being long enough to cram a Yellow Pages.
“‘Progressive’ really is a good term for our music,” Lappin tells Prog, speaking after a slot at 2022’s ArcTanGent Festival with drummer Moritz Schmidt at his side. “It means that our music keeps evolving and becoming something different – that there’s a root that we’re growing from. And sometimes, on previous albums, that root can be metal. Sometimes it can be post-hardcore, or a different kind of music. We’ve always, from a…
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