NEWS: Check Out WEESP As They Bring You Some “Illumination”

7th December 2018 admin

Weesp is an alternative post-metal band from Minsk, Belarus. The band style can be described as a mix of heavy and recognizable riffing, groovy drumming beats, analogue synth sounds, and melodic vocals. They have an album out “Black Sails” and have released a number of singles including “Illumination”

Illumination is deeply personal for each band member, because it reveals a mindset of a creative person and how they interact with the world. It’s about faith, struggling, finding own way and staying yourself – these are the main themes, the message that pierces through each song from the upcoming ‘Black Sails’ album. And that is the meaning we put into the ‘Black Sails’ name – staying yourself and sticking to your own way no matter what.

We start our journey under the black sails with ‘Illumination’ single as it perfectly represents the sound and general feeling of the entire album, as well as getting well with whole ‘Black Sails’ philosophy.

If you ever felt misunderstood by society, was called a weirdo, or just felt angry about the world around you telling what is right or wrong, you’re more than welcome on board. We’re sure we have a lot in common, so join us and have a great journey full of freedom, dreams, and faith.”

“Not Over”

“Not Over” is about the endless struggle with darkness. With the darkness that lives inside each of us. And in the end it’s about accepting that darkness,coexisting with it, controlling it, making friends with it. That is what gives us strength not to get crazy in that world. That is what makes us black sails

And “Who We Are”

“Who We Are” is a story about finding your own path and realizing that present, the exact moment of where we are and who we are matters the most. The video was release one week after the long play album ‘Black Sails’. No matter what you do, or have done, what you say, or how you look like, the only thing that is really important – is who you are. This song is about the second, the moment, the feeling that you realise what is really matter. This song is a story about this simple idea. This is a story about how we find own path and realising “Who We Are”.

Weesp are standing against the dictation of society’s conservative values. The band’s music is about finding one’s own path in the endless sea, it’s about hard choices, dreams and passion, about being different.

Band front man Lex together with Mike (guitar) formed the band when they both were studying in high school in the middle of 00s. Later the rest of the members joined and in 2009, the band finally announced its name – “WEESP” and immediately released ‘Taste of Steel’ EP.
After the next EP release “This will destroy us” (2011) Weesp performed at numerous concerts and festivals, including those in Baltic countries, all over CIS, Poland, Germany and Czech Republic (2012-2015). The band also released a few singles during that period.

In 2015 the band released their first long play album \”The Void\”, recorded by Wieslawski brothers at Hertz Records (Behemoth, Decapitated, Vader) and EverestMedia studio in Minsk. The album was released on August 20, 2015 and features 13 songs, two of which were done in collaboration with Cory Brandan from Norma Jean.

Weesp often say that The Void is an endless sea, in which every person should make its own way, or get lost and become ‘nothing’. Since that time Weesp sometimes name themselves as the ship ‘Weesp’ that travels around endless sea of ‘Void’ struggling with waves and finding new people to take on board.

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