Empros (2024 Reissue)
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Russian Circles returns with a re-issue of their legendary album Empros complete with a redesigned, embossed gatefold jacket w/ printed inner sleeve + download card, and available on limited clear w/ red, silver and magenta splatter.
Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009's Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles' Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection. Or, like a lone surviving wooly beast emerging from a brutal winter's frost, Empros is the sound of a band shaking the ages from its shoulders with all the brutal force of a behemoth awakened. Taking to Chicago's Phantom Manor studio once again with producer Brandon Curtis of The Secret Machines & Interpol -- who also helmed the band's previous album Geneva -- Russian Circles set out to experiment with their sound in new ways that would still reflect their live sound. In so doing, the band reached a new creative apex in which each of the musicians, guitarist Mike Sullivan, drummer Dave Turncrantz and bassist Brian Cook impart a streamlined and intensified attack to their songs that pummels even as it shifts throughout a range of moods and tempos.
Released: August 2024
Cat: SH067LPRS
Label: Sargent House
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Tracklist
1. 309
2. Mlàdek
3. Schiphol
4. Atackla
5. Batu
6. Praise Be Man