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PRISMER I out 10/24/25

BLACKSHAPE’s music lives in the dark hallways between tension and release. Whether weaving gaze-adjacent math rock through post-metal riffs or stripping everything back to a single guitar and vocal, each song is a twisting journey toward catharsis, leaving it to the listener to decide if there is light at the end.

Making Prismer I, BLACKSHAPE’s new record, pushed the band to their breaking point. Created under intense personal and creative pressure, they channeled their challenges into the music, refracting them into something beautiful, harrowing, and cathartic. The title reflects this, blending “prism” and “prisoner” to capture both the confinement of a single way of thought and the liberation in breaking it apart. Just as a prism bends and disperses light, every experience can shift perspective and reveal countless paths, some daunting and others full of possibility. Escaping the prison of one perspective means choosing to see the full spectrum—beautiful, ugly, terrifying, and freeing. This is PRISMER.