{"id":8815,"date":"2024-09-04T18:42:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2024-09-04T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T23:42:28","slug":"the-bleak-assembly-draws-light-from-the-dark-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8815","title":{"rendered":"THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY\u00a0Draws Light From The Dark On New\u00a0Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/THE-BLEAK-ASSEMBLY.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8816\" style=\"width:463px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/THE-BLEAK-ASSEMBLY.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/THE-BLEAK-ASSEMBLY-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Darkwave duo<strong>, THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY<\/strong>&nbsp;returns with their new album,&nbsp;<em><strong>until the world stops hurting.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this new album isn&#8217;t a dramatic departure from the gothic\/darkwave\/post-punk sound of previous releases from&nbsp;<strong>THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY<\/strong>, there&#8217;s a power and focus on this new album that maybe hadn&#8217;t been there before. Kimberly&#8217;s voice has always strong, but she sounds like an absolute Valkyrie on this release.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>until the world stops hurting<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0continues to feature dark subject matter\u00a0but this new album also sees lyrical references to light and the Sun. Says vocalist &amp; lyricist, Kimberly, &#8220;I have always come from a dark place especially with my lyrics because that\u2019s where I put all my pain &#8212; into the music. It&#8217;s my release. Whenever you have total darkness there must be some form of light.\u00a0 Its lyrically on so many various levels all about love which I think is the answer to the title of the album &#8220;<em><strong>until the world stops hurting<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; <em><strong>until the world stops hurting<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is available on all major digital platforms including Bandcamp and Spotify NOW!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"The Bleak Assembly - Beyond Words\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H5Tq9nUUb0M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY<\/strong>\u00a0is a post-punk\/darkwave project formed in August, 2022.\u00a0 The project is a collaboration between Kimberly Kornmeier (vocals and lyrics) and Michael Smith (guitars, electronics, production).\u00a0 The two collaborate very remotely &#8211; Kimberly writing and recording from Kurdistan, Michael from Denver, CO, USA.\u00a0 The two were previously on the Nilaihah Records label in separate bands &#8211;\u00a0Kimberly of\u00a0<strong>BOW EVER DOWN<\/strong>\u00a0and Michael of Fiction 8.\u00a0They met via the Sounds &amp; Shadows social media group. The two also collaborate as the current lineup of\u00a0<strong>BOW EVER DOWN.<\/strong><br>\u00a0<br><strong>THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY<\/strong>&#8216;s name is a loose reference to the Charles Dickens novel, Bleak House.\u00a0 Anyone whose life has been twisted by a false promise of wealth belongs to the assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BLEAK.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8817\" style=\"width:477px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BLEAK.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BLEAK-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BLEAK-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkwave duo, THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY&nbsp;returns with their new album,&nbsp;until the world stops hurting.&nbsp; While this new album isn&#8217;t a dramatic departure from the gothic\/darkwave\/post-punk sound of previous releases from&nbsp;THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY, there&#8217;s a power and focus on this new album that maybe hadn&#8217;t been there before. Kimberly&#8217;s voice has always strong, but she sounds like&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8815\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE BLEAK ASSEMBLY\u00a0Draws Light From The Dark On New\u00a0Album<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8818,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions\/8818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}