String quartet Seven)Suns has teamed up with Alternative Press to drop their cover of “Heathens” by Twenty One Pilots. You can watch the video, below.
The four-piece, known to perform heavier music completely on strings, wanted to take a popular single off the radio and transform it into something audiences across the mainstream world and classical world could both listen to. Fans can check out the track before the release of Seven)Suns’ forthcoming album For The Hearts Still Beating due out June 23rd via Party Smasher Inc.
Seven)Suns is a string quartet that defies pre-existing notions of what a string quartet should be by bringing two related popular music subcultures, Metal and Hardcore, into the tradition of the chamber ensemble. Seven)Suns has a far wider aural palette than is to be expected: driven, aggressive, dissonant and hard-edged as well as at times, contemplative, meditative, and still, running the entire gamut of human emotions ranging from pure, primal rage to serene contemplation. Their repertoire is drawn from works by the members of the group, re-imagined string quartet versions of metal and hardcore songs, as well as works from the Western art music tradition.
Seven)Suns is Amanda Lo (violin), Earl Maneein and Fung Chern Hwei (violin and viola) and Jennifer DeVore (cello).
