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New RC Track,“Milano”

(via Consequence of Sound) Instrumental post-metal trio Russian Circles will release their seventh full-length studio album, Blood Year, this August via Sargent House. The band has teamed up with Heavy Consequence for the premiere of the single “Milano”. Stream it below.

“Milano” is sonically vast, opening with crushing sludge chords that decay and flow through softer minors, spacious breaks, and blastbeat breakdowns. The track showcases the band’s multitude of talents, weaving different styles of metal and post-rock into a six minute, wordless crusher.

Blood Year, due August 2nd, was produced by Kurt Ballou at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio studio in Chicago, where the band cut its prior albums Enter, Geneva, and Memorial. According a press release, the band has opted to forsake the “divergent musical paths” found on albums like Guidance and Memorial for a more “direct and forceful” collection of songs.

In a different approach than the piecemeal songwriting process of past albums, the band set out to capture the essence of their live show on Blood Year, tracking the songs “together in one room as complete takes without click tracks”. Further guitar overdubs were tracked at Ballou’s God City studio, making for an organic yet sonically expansive recording.

Russian Circles embark on a two-part North American tour, heading out in September with FACSbefore taking a three-week break and hitting the road alongside Windhand in October. Pre-orders for Blood Year are available here, and the full tour itinerary is below.

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George Clarke on Slipknot

When Slipknot dropped their self-titled debut album in 1999, it sent shock waves through the rock and metal world. It was so ferocious and yet so catchy, so maniacal and yet so meticulous — from the industrial menace of "742617000027" all the way through to the raw, spasmodic grind of "hidden" track "Eeyore." Then there was the band themselves: the masks, the jumpsuits, the "fuck you all" attitude of their interviews, the "fuck you all even harder" attitude of their live shows. Below, on the eve of the album's 20th anniversary, Deafheaven frontman George Clarke looks back on the first time Slipknot blew his mind and the impact the album has had on him ever since.

Source: revolvermag.com
#Deafheaven#Slipknot#Revolver
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A Brief History of Mathcore In Ten Albums // ft. The Armed

ONLY LOVE by The Armed

The Armed ONLY LOVE

Pseudo-anonymous Detroit collective The Armed specialize in two things: crazy music, and even crazier offstage antics. It’s easy to let the latter overshadow the former, but if there were any doubts regarding the group’s dedication to musical experimentation, they were quickly quelled by 2018’s masterful Only Love. The whirlwind grooves of mathcore might be soldered into album’s DNA, but it’s the cyberpunk synths, atmospheric flourishes, and occasional pop melodies that make it an otherworldly listen.

Source: daily.bandcamp.com
#The Armed#Only Love#Mathcore#Bandcamp
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Brutus “Nest on ‘The 50 Best Albums Of 2019 So Far’

12. Brutus – Nest (Sargent House)

Words don’t do it justice. They can’t. Words can’t capture Nest, the second album from Belgian post-metal power trio Brutus. For instance: Nest feels like a primal howl, a raging fire, a force of nature. Describe it in those terms, though, and you’ve inadvertently erased the entire process — the discipline, the dedication, the painstaking, life-encompassing labor — required to create a work of art that feels like this. Another example: The focal point of Brutus is drummer/singer Stefanie Mannaerts, whose face-scorching performances throughout the entirety of Nest suggest a superhuman talent, an Olympian greatness, an unknowable brilliance. Reduce Brutus to Mannaerts alone, though, and you’ve failed to understand the essential contributions of her co-workers — bassist Peter Mulders, guitarist Stijn Vanhoegaerden, and producer Jesse Gander — all here in the room alongside Mannaerts, everyone in precisely perfect balance with everyone else, each component supporting, propelling, and elevating both its counterparts and the whole. When you listen to Nest, you hear a golden-glowing lightning-wielding storm-goddess deity laying waste to Zoroastrian hell realms. –Michael

HEAR IT: Spotify | Apple Music | Bandcamp

Source: stereogum.com
#Brutus#Nest#Stereogum
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Helms Alee March to the Beat of Their Own Drum // SF Sonic

via SF Sonic

Watching Helms Alee drummer Hozoji Matheson-Margullis do her thing is hypnotizing. Sitting behind a late-‘60s black Rogers kit—the same one her dad bought her when she was fifteen years old—Matheson-Margullis covered lead and backing locals while playing over rapidly shifting arrangements. Positioned center-stage at Great American Music Hall, an awestruck crowd stared as she ruthlessly beat the hell out of her drums.

Source: sfsonic.com
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The Armed Signed to Sargent House + Video for New Song “FT. FRANK TURNER”

(via Pitchfork) Detroit punk/hardcore/experimental collective the Armed have shared the music video for their new song “FT. FRANK TURNER” (which came out yesterday, June 5, as part of Adult Swim’s ongoing Singles series). Check out the clip, directed by Tony Wolski, below.

Along with the music video, the Armed have announced that they’ve signed with Sargent House. Check out the group’s upcoming tour schedule below.

“FT. FRANK TURNER” is the Armed’s first track since last year’s Only Love. The music video for that LP’s “Role Models” starred Tommy Wiseau, director and star of The Room.

See where Only Love fell on Pitchfork’s “The Best Metal Albums of 2018.”

The Armed:

07-06 Roskilde, Denmark - Roskilde Festival 07-12 Montmartin-Sur-Mer, France - Chauffer Dans La Noirceur 07-13 Upcote Farm, England - 2000trees Music Festival 09-12 Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA 09-13 New York, NY - Saint Vitus 09-14 Boston, MA - Great Scott 09-20 Toronto, Ontario - Hard Luck 09-21 Montreal, Quebec - Turbo Haus

Source: pitchfork.com
#The Armed#Ft Frank Turner#sargent house#Pitchfork
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“Full Upon Her Burning Lips” on This Week’s Essential Releases

Earth – Full Upon Her Burning Lips

Earth’s latest is a record that feels curiously intimate and subtly powerful, with as many plainly beautiful parts as hazy, evil-sounding ones. Though the pacing is slow, Full Upon Her Burning Lips isn’t really a record that demands patience from the listener as these songs are immediately accessible, melodic, and feature enough interesting push-and-pull between Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies to make it a record meant for foregrounded listening.

Source: daily.bandcamp.com
#Earth#Full Upon Her Burning Lips
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