IN SHORT
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SOUNDS LIKE: Raging blasts of black metal being swallowed by an ocean of fatalistic doom
THEY MAY SHARE their name with a star in the constellation of Scorpius, but there is little light to be found in the nihilistic worldview of Sargas, the Tehran-based band fusing elements of black, death and doom metal together to commemorate the pure futility of human existence. But then, when you form a band in a country that’s arrested metal musicians for their art, perhaps a keen sense of fatalism is to be expected. “It’s as if there’s a shadow that’s always behind us,” explains vocalist Saleh Rezaei. “If you’re a metal musician in Iran, you should prepare yourself to be condemned.”