JIRM: Swedish Heavy Psyche Rockers Unveil "The Cultist" Video; Surge Ex Monumentis Out Now On Small Stone
"Surge Ex Monumentis has a healthy psychedelic rock
influence but the heavy metal undertones are undeniable. At times, the record
seems to take its inspiration from Pink Floyd as much as from Iron
Maiden..." - Decibel
View / Share JIRM's "The Cultist" at THIS LOCATION
Swedish heavy psychedelic rockers JIRM released their Surge
Ex Monumentis full-length via Small Stone earlier this month. Formerly Jeremy
Irons And The Ratgang Malibus, JIRM has never been more themselves than they
are on Surge Ex Monumentis. Even as they redefine who they are and what they do
as a band, they remain singularly powerful in their delivery and completely
unmistakable. The seven-track Surge Ex Monumentis was captured at Puch Studios
in Stockholm, Sweden,
mixed by Oskar Lindberg at Svenska Grammofonstudion in Gothenburg,
Sweden, and mastered by
Chris Gooseman at Baseline Audio Labs in Ann
Arbor, Michigan
In celebration of the release of Surge Ex Monumentis, JIRM
is pleased to unveil a new video for "The Cultist."
Check it out at THIS LOCATION where you can also view the
band's previously-released "Candle Eyes" video.
Surge Ex Monumentis is out now on CD, digital, and limited
edition 2xLP formats via Small Stone. Orders are currently available at THIS LOCATION where the record can also be streamed in full.
Sometimes in life you have to make a change. And sometimes
you have to make a whole bunch of changes. So it is that JIRM is born and
stands where once stood Jeremy Irons And The Ratgang Malibus. Having dropped
the cumbersome moniker, the Swedish heavy rockers embark on a new era with
Surge Ex Monumentis - marked as much by a tightening of sound as name.
For their first record as JIRM, the Stockholm-based
four-piece of vocalist/guitarist Karl Apelmo, guitarist Micke Pettersson,
bassist Viktor Källgren, and drummer Henke Persson cast off the shackles of
expectation entirely. Their style is no less expansive, but it's become
entirely their own, a driving mind meld between psychedelia, classic metal,
heavy rock, and individualized realms beyond. Surge Ex Monumentis brims with
newfound energy at the same time it benefits from the lessons JIRM have learned
since first getting together in 2004 and releasing albums like Elefanta (2009),
Bloom (2011), and Spirit Knife (2014), a record Mass Movement crowned, "a
blissful mixture of Soundgarden at their grooviest and Pink Floyd...a terrific
album of sunny day, top down, cruising music.
"With an
underpinning of space metal, heavy progressive swirl and a flourish of
psychedelic reaching, the six-minute 'Candle Eyes' begins Surge ex Monumentis
with a feel that's both classic and vital... JIRM have their own agenda and their
blend when it comes to bringing together heavy rock and prog, and by injecting
a current of '80s-style metal grandiosity - notice I didn't say 'glam-diosity;'
that's not what we're talking about here - they find a niche for themselves and
begin to dig into what will likely be a continuing process of forward creative
growth..." - The Obelisk
"While some psychedelia-oriented artists forget to rock
and just fumble along, this record keeps rock alive while pushing the lines to
space rock without meandering." - Cosmic Rock
"There seems to be a lot of genuine emotion within the
album that you can feel in the songwriting..." - Capital Chaos
"JIRM have found a strong median between '70s prog
rock, stoner metal, and modern rock instrumentation that feels both distantly
stoned and freshly modern...as cinematic as it is engaging..." - Grizzly
Butts
"Expansive, atmospheric, progressive, and highly
engaging, Surge ex Monumentis is an enjoyable and captivating listen." -
Wonder Metal
"If ever a band were on peak form it is JIRM and with
Surge Ex Monumentis they have created something of a masterpiece. A superb
listen from beginning to end which never lets up, and continues to bring new
thrills on each listen." - Echoes And Dust
"...on Surge Ex Monumentis, the band's fourth album,
they take the template of psyche-stoner-doom-whatever and elaborate on it
through sixty four minutes of their most florid and ambitious music yet."
- Sentinel Daily
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