Anhedonia is a self-released debut album by Latvian modern metal band Morphide. The band created a very individualistic experience of swinging emotions, from deep and mesmerizing melodies to crushing breakdowns. Fierce energy, ethereal ambient layers and captivating harmonies – Anhedonia has all of it. Every new song brings something fresh to the table, be it thundering screams or soothing guitar solos. Occasional polyrhythms and inconsistent song structures push the band to the border of prog territory, creating an uncertainty of what is coming next. The album features deep lyricism revolving around personality and self-identity, capturing different struggles and dark side of personhood. Every song is a story on its own, opening up about one of the episodes of the band’s personal experience and observations.
The band have dropped a new video for the track “Catharsis” off the new album “Anhedonia” which is out now.
Morphide is a modern metal band from Latvia that amassed half a million streams before the release of their debut album Anhedonia. Formed in June 2019, husband and wife duo, – composer Chris and vocalist and lyricist Eissa, – released their debut single “Mayhem” and already in a couple of months headed out on their first European tour covering Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Czech Republic. During their short career Morphide has been working together with such well-known producers as Forrester Savell (Animals as Leaders, Twelve Foot Ninja, Karnivool) and Acle Kahney (Tesseract) and received media coverage by MetalSucks and The Circle Pit.
Vocalist Eissa has been featured on multiple Seas on the Moon tracks and had a collaboration with Lena Scissorhands (Infected Rain). Morphide released six singles and laid down their debut album Anhedonia on September 9. They created a very individualistic experience of swinging emotions, from deep and mesmerising melodies to crushing breakdowns. Fierce energy, ethereal ambient layers and captivating harmonies – Anhedonia has all of it. Every new song brings something fresh to the table, be it thundering screams or soothing guitar solos. They are not afraid to experiment and shift towards different sound, and this is what makes the band unique.