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LAFCADIO is a band growing out of metal's deep-rooted traditions, but they're always somewhere on the outer edge of ritual and convention. The Indianapolis based group (formerly known as Gogglesphere) add new options to the prog/ math sound. Their wide array of influences (from King Crimson to Don Caballero; Melvins to the Deftones) fuse and recombine into a new-synthesis---like some kind of psycho-symphonic experimental cockrock-core. With their debut album, Sham Duvet, the group tells a story of the troublesome dichotomy between religious epiphany and schizophrenic dementia. The epic protagonist, 'Sham Duvet', is a neurotic/ prophetic figure with a messiah complex. Is Sham really a psychopath? Are his messianic ambitions ultimately hallucinations? Of course they are. This isn't the ethereal lute-song of Handel's Messiah symphony. This is fucking metal. LAFCADIO delivers their songs with a brutal elegance, but they don't shy away from the manic absurdity---the clownish aspect of doom. Sham Duvet is speckled with the humorous and the absurd; giving this prog-math-metal group a sense of authenticity - a trait highly lacking within the all to often cookie-cutter world of heavy music.