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The focused sludge rage of STONEBURNER is again revealed this week as Metal Hammer premieres another track from their forthcoming second full-length, Life Drawing.
"An
Apology To A Friend In Need" is a seething concentrate of bold leads
and restless riffs, annihilatory fuzz and total destruction kept at bay
only by the spot-on groove the Portland sludge crew excel at, throwing
their monumental weight around with deadly accuracy.
About
the track the band remark: "This song is one of our favorite pieces to
play. Riding the line between the crunchy, aggressive riffs and the more
subdued, fragile sections gets us high as hell. Lyrically, 'An
Apology...' is just that. It's a reflection on those times when it takes
everything you've got just to get out of bed, with no room left for
others. The dark times when you turn your back on a loved one's pain,
because all you've got to give is the poison of your own shitty
problems."
You can stream all eight minutes of "An Apology To A Friend In Need" AT THIS LOCATION. Direct SoundCloud link can be found HERE.
You can also listen to the sonic severity of "Some Can," premiered last week, and now streaming at The Portland Mercury HERE.
The follow-up to their 2012 debut, Sickness Will Pass,
features nine rumbling hymns of bottom-heavy hostility, diseased
rhythms and emotional decay as well as an array of talented guest
vocalists including Krysta Martinez (Transient/Landmine Marathon),
Benjamin Caragol (Burials/Hang the Old Year) and Joshua Greene (Bastard
Feast, Ephemeros). Recorded, mixed and produced by Fester at Haywire
Studios, mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering - both in
Portland - and swathed in the visually abrasive cover art of J.J.
Shirey, Life Drawing promises to hurl STONEBURNER's habitually chest-caving sludge mantras to entirely new realms of earth-deteriorating heaviness.
STONEBURNER's
musical ancestry winds through Buried At Sea, Buried Blood, Heathen
Shrine and others. Named after a subterranean weapon from the novel
Dune, STONEBURNER delivers a wholly organic
orchestration of captivating, crusty doom metal, their torrid hymns
bathed in internal agony, anguish and despair.
Life Drawing will be unveiled in North America via Neurot Recordings on April 15th, 2014 (April 14th in the UK/EU).
"Churning
elements of sludge, doom and crust in a charred and emotionally charged
study of turmoil, fearless self-examination and a determined drive to
wring some genuine human essence from the modern-day vale of tears, Life
Drawing is a daunting yet ultimately exhilarating album for anyone who
believes that music should be as challenging and potentially
transformative as life itself." - Metal Hammer
"...a bottom-heavy, cracked, ground-crawling rager dipped in mire and slime." - The Portland Mercury
"At
times quite spooky, at others downright teeth-grinding, Life Drawing is
rough and seething. Repeated thrusts of your face into the soft moss of
a dying log somehow protect you from the obvious: Hope and promise
aren't merely stained. They've been properly diluted and washed out with
thick piss. The truest of sludge deliveries opens a rusty door, but STONEBURNER
have invited us into our own nightmare. The deceptive lounges hardly
provide comfort, and you're better off just cooperating when the rhythms
crash. Get in the van and stop with the fucking questions. Yes, there
IS a world this ugly." - HeavyPlanet
"The
songs are free form expressions of the darker side of life where not
everything works out in the end. The cover is quite evocative and one
can imagine this album chronicling the life and times of the figure in
the painting. Which is possibly why the album sounds so bleak, yet with
moments of uplift; even in a drab life there are moments of color... " -
Wonderbox Metal
For further info on STONEBURNER/Neurot Recordings in North America contact liz@earsplitcompound.com, in Germany contact ansgar@community-promotion.com, and across the rest of Europe contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
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