Toronto-based artist WEIGHT BELLY .3-9 crafts a striking nu-metal/electronic hybrid on newly released track “White Rabbit.” Industrial textures collide with distorted guitar bite, wobbling low-end, and mechanized beats, forming a tense nocturnal atmosphere. Vocal lines unfold with mantra-like confidence, drifting between surreal observation and proud proclamations. Inspired by Deftones’ Adrenaline era, the track channels urgency through occasional samples and evolving rhythmic pressure, creating a confrontational yet hypnotic listening experience where electronic experimentation and metal grit fuse into a creative, powerful statement.
The track wastes no time establishing a riveting soundscape; a spacious, industrial intrigue emanates from lush rhythmic shuffling and grimy guitar tones. “I repel the drama, and stay nice like the Dalai Lama,” a confident vocal introspection lets out. “On the MIDI keyboard I play it so fine … White Rabbit is peaking,” continues the sense of artful momentum as the click-clacking percussion and doses of late-night guitars continue to intertwine.
The intensifying “peaking” vocal and beckoning to “listen to the earth” furthers the intrigue, rumbling into a ghostly wavering effect and slight percussive pitter-patter. The sporadic infusion of samples — like the ignitor switch effect at the three-minute mark — enjoyably complements the foreboding, snarling vocal stream-of-conscious feeling. “White Rabbit” is an inventively atmospheric standout from WEIGHT BELLY .3-9.
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