In less than a week,
Crucial Blast will release the label's first recordings from NYC metal
experimentalists, EPISTASIS, with their Light Through Dead Glass
mini-album, and today Noisey lets the whole thing loose early.
Set for release on
April 1st, the collective's latest sonic explorations are documented through six
new movements on the new EP, EPISTASIS' own specialized, unclassifiable
mangling of influences swirling into a chaotic, devastating and yet beautiful
entity. The haunting and crushing range of vocals pouring forth from Amy Mills'
(Couch Slut) matched with her mournful trumpet contributions somehow weaves
seamlessly into the barrage of percussion unloaded by drummer Alex Cohen
(Pyrrhon, Malignancy) while guitarist Kevin Wunderlich (Couch Slut, Voice Coils)
and bassist Doug Berns lay down an equally vast culmination of amplification and
riff tactics. Mills recently also played trumpet on new albums from Castevet and
Psalm Zero. The EP was recorded under the watch of Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth,
Swans, Unsane).
Vice's music outlet,
Noisey, is now streaming Light Through Dead Glass, letting folks know if
they are simply "looking for a more traditional
coprse-painted-bro-sawing-out-tremolo-riffs-to-a-fisher-price-recorder, look
elsewhere," continuing with, "the NYC quartet uses ambient passages, complex
death metal riffing and more to create their nightmare, crafting six tracks of
astounding horror."
Listen now out now
at THIS LOCATION.
EPISTASIS
will
showcase their latest works at a hometown gala, just days after the official
release of Light Through Dead Glass. On Sunday, April 6th, Kayo Dot,
White Suns, and Pyrrhon will share the stage at the Acheron in Brooklyn with
EPISTASIS at the band's official release show for the record.
EPISTASIS Record
Release Show:
Additional live dates
from EPISTASIS will be announced in the coming weeks. Orders for the CD
and digital versions of the new mini-album can be placed HERE.
"The
intense cacophonous dirges, the psychosis-drenched riffs, and the insane
stylistic shifts all serve to point out that this band means business. Light
Through Dead Glass is definitely something to get excited for. 9/10" - American
Aftermath
"By
shifting their direction after already establishing a unique sound,
EPISTASIS have become purveyors of a highly varied and unpredictable
strain of experimental black metal unlike anything I've ever heard. If Light
Through Dead Glass doesn't show up on numerous year end lists, I quit." - No
Clean Singing
"There's
never a dull moment... If we can play etymologist here, perhaps the trumpet's
the calm before the world-ending storm. It's a thing of beauty..." - Invisible
Oranges
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