THE DARK RED SEED is the musical outlet of guitarist Tosten Larson. A self-coined ‘metaphor for the heart’, THE DARK RED SEED represents a direct reference to life — and death — itself. The duo, which also includes King Dude engineer Shawn Flemming, will now release its debut album, “Becomes Awake”.
The full-length follow-up to the group’s 2017 debut EP, “Stands with Death”, a dark, dusty discourse on the departure and ultimate dissolution of life, “Becomes Awake” symbolizes a movement from darkness into light; finding balance through acceptance of one’s own qualities of both the light and the dark; the good and the bad. The struggle of finding balance is never ending.
While Chelsea Wolfe’s Dark Folks may serve as a comparison, THE DARK RED SEED veer down a much heavier path. Standing equally in the tradition of dark folk and modern heavy psych, Larson notes that the three albums that most inspired “Becomes Awake” are SPIRITUALIZED “Ladies a