The Black Heart Rebellion

The Black Heart Rebellion were a Belgian experimental band from Ghent, formed in 2004 by vocalist Pieter Uyttenhove, guitarists Alex Maekelberg and Valentijn Goethals, bassist Emeriek Verhoye, and drummer Tim Bryon.

The project led them to question their creative direction, marking the start of a "difficult" period of personal and stylistic transformation that spanned four years and almost saw the band break up.

[2] After Har Nevo's release, the band received some emails from disappointed fans of their older work, to which Bryon generally responded: "Give [the album] some time.

[7] The band announced their end in November 2021 due to "shifting focus to careers, children and other (musical) experiences"; Pieter, Alex, and Emeriek together with Annelies Van Dinter (who previously appeared as a vocalist on People, when you see the smoke…) began to record under the new name TAKH.

He described the album as "slow-burning music that looks to envelop and intoxicate its listeners through a diet of drones, pulsating riffs and unusual percussion sounds ... [with] shades of neofolk and a vaguely black metal-esque atmosphere.

"[9] Around the same time, Noisey wrote that the band "treads the dusty ground between doom, post-rock, tribal beats, ritual percussion, and ambient",[5] while Nic Smith of SLUG summarized them as a marriage of Amenra and Swans.

Their aim is to create a unique atmosphere manifest in all aspects of the band's music as well as live performance (including stage lighting) and visual art.

"[3] Speaking about the evolution of his approach, Bryon said in 2016: "I took a step back from the conventional drum patterns in underground heavy music and searched for inspiration where percussion really created an atmosphere, rather than just decibels...

There may be little traces of it in what I actually play, but bands like Dawanggang, Karantamba and several of the recordings of Alan Lomax (like the prison songs and the album Saraca: [Funerary Music of Carriacou]) really fascinate me.