CHANGELING's Fountainhead Releases Blindfolded Guitar Playthrough Of 'World? What World?'

CHANGELING, the progressive death metal band led by guitarist Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschläger (ex-OBSCURA), has released a blindfolded guitar playthrough of "World? What World?," a track from the band's debut album, "Changeling."

Shot in studio and hosted on FountainheadTV, the playthrough turns the song into a single uninterrupted performance, with Fountainhead navigating its shifting time signatures and tremolo-picked runs entirely by feel. "World? What World?" is one of the most punishing songs on "Changeling," built on 260 bpm blast beats and a brass arrangement scored for an ensemble of Wagnerian tubas, staging a confrontation with fear and the unconscious mind. Losing the visual reference point of the fretboard turns the playthrough into a demonstration of muscle memory as much as musicianship — a fitting angle for a song built around the collapse of perceptual certainty.

"Changeling" moves through four distinct chapters. The album opens in tech-death vocabulary rooted in Fountainhead's work on OBSCURA's album "Akroasis," and closes with "Anathema," the 16-minute successor to his own "Weltseele." The album is out now via Season Of Mist.

CHANGELING will bring the material to Europe this November for the "Tour? What Tour?" headline run, with support from OBSIDIAN TIDE.

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