Empire State Bastard have introduced their latest single ‘Stutter’. Test it out under.
The band is the newest undertaking from Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil and touring guitarist and former Oceansize musician Mike Vennart – who launched again in March with the debut single ‘Harvest’.
Enlisting Slayer and Testomony drummer Dave Lombardo and Naomi Macleod of Bitch Falcon on bass, the band not too long ago launched into a sold-out headline tour throughout the UK and this week introduced their debut album ‘Rivers Of Heresy’.
Now, the band have shared their second single, ‘Stutter’. Blisteringly heavy from begin to end, the observe sees the four-piece channel inspiration from black metallic bands together with Mayhem and Bathory. Test it out under.
Introduced earlier this week, ‘Rivers Of Heresy’ is about for launch on September 1, and has been described as capturing a sound equal to “pure sonic annihilation”.
“I set about making essentially the most fucking toxic vile music I presumably might, simply unabridged hatred in musical type,” Vennart mentioned of the document, whereas Neil added: “Lyrically, it’s as misanthropic and nihilistic as I’ve ever written.”
The debut LP will characteristic 10 tracks, and opens with their lead single ‘Harvest’. Pre-order it right here.
Within the run as much as the discharge — and following on from their latest UK tour — Empire State Bastard are additionally set to make quite a few worldwide pageant appearances. These embrace UK units at Obtain and ArcTanGent, in addition to a slot at Glastonbury. Discover a full checklist of upcoming performances under.
JUNE
9 – Obtain Pageant, Donington Park
15 – Brudenell Social Membership, Leeds
16 – Mash, Cambridge
18 – Hellfest, Clisson, France
21-25 – Earache Takeover, Glastonbury Pageant
JULY
7 – 2000trees Pageant, Gloucestershire
21 – Malakoff, Malakoffparken, Norway
AUGUST
2-5 – Wacken Open Air, Wacken, Germany
17 – ArcTanGent, Bristol
SEPTEMBER
15-17 – Riot Fest, Chicago, USA
Talking to NME final month, the band’s frontman mentioned that he and Vennart have been trying to seize “going for extremity in any respect prices” with the brand new band, and hoping that the sound they seize can be “extraordinarily bizarre”.
“As a result of we play collectively in Biffy, there’s no level in us doing one other undertaking that doesn’t really feel miles aside,” he defined. “That’s a pet hate of mine, when folks depart their full-time band to do one other factor and it’s only a barely totally different model of what they’re doing anyway. What’s the fucking level?”
