We blame the empire

Index

 * 1) Band profile
 * 2) Origin/Background
 * 3) History
 * 4) Music & Style
 * 5) Discography
 * 6) Weblinks/Proof

Origin/Background
We Blame the Empire is a Metalcore-Band from Vöcklabruck, Oberösterreich and has 4 Members. While Sebastian Penninger does all the screaming, Moritz Osterer sings the clean vocal parts and plays E-Guitar. Dominic Bucar plays E-Bass and Lukas Prielinger is the drummer of the band.

History
We Blame the Empire was founded in 2014 in Vöcklabruck in Oberösterreich. Except of the screamer Sebastian Penninger, Guitarrist Moritz Osterer, Bassist Dominik Bucar and drummer Lukas Prielinger played in the Metal-Band Earthrotten together.

Even though the band exists since 2014, their first album „The Waves Won’t Take Me“ came late in January, 2017 and was all selfmade without label. On this album, you get to hear three special guests. Brian Pearl from Marrok, Chris Breetzi and Lukas Eberl. One year after „The Waves Won‘t Take Me“, the austrian band allready began working on their next album which was called „Aero“. „Aero“ was released with help of „Animals Mosh Harder Records“ in april 2020.

April 2021, the fact that „We Blame the Empire“ has been nominated for the „ Austrian Music Awards“ for the catageory „Hard & Heavy“.

Music & Style
The Music of „We Blame the Empire“ is described as Metalcore with changing scream and clean singing. Their first album‘s topic was about humans and nature, generally how bad humans are for nature and earth. We Blame the Empire uses ,for metalcore typically, many breakdowns, which sometimes function as changing post between two songs.

On „Aero“, nature protective topics get expanded with socially critical topics as well as personal experiences from the four musicians. Some passages allow you to compare their musical style with the british metalcore band „Architects“, while at the same time other passages from „We Blame the Empire‘s“ new album remind you of post-hardcore like structured ballads. Conny Schiffbauer from „Rock Hard“ describes the Music of the four newcomers as „Metalled Modern Hardcore“, which meets „some breakdowns und fat Grooves“. But the musicians still get it done to create a kind of a catchiness through their usage of atmospharic sounds.

The band works together with the organisation „Sea Shepard“ which shows the importance of that topic, at least for the quartet from Österreich. All four band members take part in songwriting.

Discographie
2017: These Waves Won’t Take Me (Album, selfmade)

2020: Aero (Album, Animalsmoshharder Records)

Weblinks/Proof
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Blame_the_Empire http://www.wbteofficial.com/ https://www.last.fm/music/We+Blame+the+Empire/+tags https://instagram.com/weblametheempireofficial?utm_medium=copy_link https://www.facebook.com/weblametheempire/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD-37Jy4VX2989Dd9Fa0zbg/videos