“I like my obscure literature as much as the next nerdy humanities graduate, but I’d never heard of Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. This obscure post-apocalyptic novel is the concept for Czech black metal outfit Somniate’s sophomore We Have Proved Death. Of its cryptically minimalist and idiosyncratic story, Somniate present their interpretation through a free-flowing melodious black metal that relaxes the genre boundaries of extreme metal in a way befitting of the magical realism of their subject matter. Yes, it’s black metal, but with a helping of spice and intrigue that sets it apart from the swaths of Dissection-worshippers.” Obscure lit finds niche genre.
