After a prolonged illness musician Margot Day had what she described as a medical and spiritual miracle, a metamorphosis, that led to the inspiration for her band name Metamorph. “I chose a band name that embraced the concept of transformation, alchemy, of new beginnings, hope” Day explains. The name Metamorph stands strong in what are fluctuating times.
Metamorph originally consisted of Day, a native New Yorker who started as the front person, the singer, writer and flautist for the band Plague. A powerful force in the 80s Goth scene, Plague released the album Nakara. She was joined by international DJ producer Ari Karma. Day released the 4 Elements EP highlighting the metamorphic elements of “water evaporating into air, earth being transformed by fire to lava, because without change, life is not possible.” “The Wave” and “Fire Monkey”, featured songs with music videos on the bands YouTube channel which had over 100000 views.
In 2017 multi instrumentalist music producer Kurtis Knight joined Metamorph. Day and Knight became a duo touring Costa Rica, Guatemala, Canada and the East and West Coast of America. Day and Knight released the music video “Daisy Logic” and the album Ether the 5th element. While some refer to Ether as the void, Chi or spirit, its pure energy is thought of as a source of healing when one immerses oneself fully in it. “All of Metamorph’s music tuning is A=432Hz ; natures natural harmony” according to Day.
By 2019 Metamorph had expanded and become the full band. A lover of drama and theatre, in essence forms of ritual, Day added dancers to the band. The band consisted of Day and Knight on keyboard and guitar. Joe Netzel on drums. Netzel started his music career as a Rock drummer, but he eventually became more interested in what he describes as “global rhythms and percussion”. Netzel says that being part of Metamorph has allowed him to step away from the simple time keeping of modern music and play “within and around the beat.” For Netzel Metamorph provides a liberating feeling. Metamorph had Anomoly on bass. Rivqah Cas is a sword and belly dancer for Metamorph and has a background in Middle Eastern and Middle Eastern/Western Fusion Dance. Cas has the task of capturing and synthesizing the energy and message of the music and says “I love working with the musicians and feeling the spirit of the live music as I dance.”
Kitten Mypants provided burlesque for the band.
Metamorph released Sigils and Spirals EP in March 2020 with the music video “Spelldance”. “The last show as a full band was in 2020, to a packed venue, was “the night before the world shut down and then all the festivals and concerts were cancelled due to the pandemic lockdown” Day says.
Following the start of the pandemic Day was broken hearted and ran away to the jungle with Knight, her band mate, soulmate and lover. After an initial period of what Day describes as “mourning” she felt inspired once more and started to write, program and record alone. She found a joy and empowerment in writing alone. “I became deeply inspired and the songs started pouring out of me” said Day.
In 2022 Erik Gustafson, who Day describes as a true alchemist, produced Day’s songs “Love in the Wreckage” and “Dream Curve”. The two songs are part of an EP expected to be released in the fall of 2022 called Kiss of the Witch. The EP will include tracks “Poison in the Air”, Heart to Bloody Heart”, “Kiss of the Witch” and “Empress”, a resurrected and recreated Plague song.
With what Day describes as a sunshiney gothy and witchy feel Metamorph explores themes of hope, love, mysticism, change and renewal. “Let’s rise together from the muck like lotus flowers”, something we can achieve with witchery, magic and love Day believes.
“I feel the turmoil, and pain of the world, sometimes it makes my head spin and I weep and cry” says Day. Being a witch has helped Day stay connected to nature and the source “I transform the world’s chaos energy into a new form, songs.” She describes her new EP Kiss of the Witch as being able to open love portals “with a magical musical kiss from me to you”. The singles from the album “Love in the Wreckage “ is a song that transmutes the misery in the world into love and “Dream Curve” was created to “weave a multi-colored tapestry of hope.” It’s Day’s wish that her music provides portals that make a better future for everyone and the planet.
The lyrics of Metamorph’s songs always have multiple layers of meanings and messages. Like a mystical incantation, the first layer Day says “is usually romantic love.” The listener must then excavate deeper to find Day’s hidden secrets. She describes these as secrets of “magic, eternal truths, devastation and renewal.”
Day is deeply involved in curating the entire aesthetic of the band. She works closely with graphic designer J. Jones who has twenty plus years of experience in his field, to ensure the images are entwined with her music for its magic to be fully activated.
For the rest of 2022 Day will continue writing music in the jungle or forest and then sending it onto Gustafson who takes the vocals and flute tracks and like a true alchemist melds them into a song. “I love this new Metamorph music elixir with all my heart “ Day says of the music Gustafson is producing for her. She says that she will spend the rest of her life channeling melodies and messages, “helping to save the world with a song.”
For new listeners to Metamorph’s music Day eloquently gives this message “Metamorph is music for morphing. We invite the listener to welcome change, let new dreams unfold; become the butterfly, the bat, the witch, the shaman…”
Links :
Metamorph documentary about music and healing : https://youtu.be/p2AULa9ee0k
Rare footage of Plague and the album Nakara : https://www.margotday.com/the-plague
4 Elements : https://youtube.com/channel/UCCIsnRXAqBrMCxvdfmMTXcg
YouTube : https://youtube.com/channel/UCCIsnRXAqBrMCxvdfmMTXcg
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Metamorphmusic.
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