MetalSucks is currently streaming Skeletal Blasphemy, the latest full-length from powerviolence project NUCLEAR DUDES, in its unhinged entirety. The premiere comes in advance of the records’ official release Friday, November 14th via The Ghost Is Clear Records.
NUCLEAR DUDES is the inventive, anarchic yet sophisticated project of multi-instrumentalist and underground mainstay Jon Weisnewski (Sandrider, Akimbo). Originally conceived as a COVID-19 lockdown hyper hybrid. A clever blend of Gary Numan meets Carcass, the project has since grown longer legs to include collaborations and a wider array of influences.
“NUCLEAR DUDES started as ‘something to do’ during the pandemic,” Weisnewski offers. “Turns out it’s real sticky. It’s become a consistent project that is exploring metal/grind, synth, and collaborating with musicians I love and admire.”
Skeletal Blasphemy is perhaps the most focused effort yet under the NUCLEAR DUDES moniker, a rollercoaster team-up with Coady Willis (High On Fire, Melvins, Murder City Devils), one of heavy rock’s most lauded percussionists.
“Coady and I started planning this release in 2023 and both worked on it on the side through 2024,” Weisnewski says. “Coady recorded all the drums at his own studio. I recorded all instruments and vocals at my house or practice space in Seattle, Washington.”
Despite the distance, the material has incredible kinetic energy and a wholeness to it. Coming off as some futuristic hybrid that fans of rhythmic shifting pioneers like DFA 1979 and Lightning Bolt or more experimental Mastodon and new wave fans could all enjoy, Skeletal Blasphemy makes the impossible sound not only concise, but organic and logical.
Writes MetalSucks in part, “It’s punky, it’s powerful, and at times sounds both primitive and futuristic in equal measures. It’s a wild listen by its very nature.”
Album Premiere: Nuclear Dudes’ ‘Skeletal Blasphemy’ is a Whirligig of Unbridled Sound and Creativity
Stream NUCLEAR DUDES’ Skeletal Blasphemy HERE.
Mixed by Matt Bayles (Giant Squid, Isis) and mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, the album is arriving mere weeks after the previous effort Truth Paste, a grindy, violent, twenty-minute collaboration with vocalist Brandon Nakamura. Unlike Truth Paste. which was self-released and digital only, Skeletal Blasphemy will be released in conjunction with taste makers The Ghost Is Clear Records.
NUCLEAR DUDES’ Skeletal Blasphemy will be released digitally and on limited vinyl (Black – Ltd 300; Blue – Ltd. 100).
Find vinyl preorders at The Ghost Is Clear Records webshop HERE and digital orders at Bandcamp HERE.
Skeletal Blasphemy Track Listing:
- Skeletal Blasphemy
- Fully Clothed And Still Afraid
- Antisax
- Victory Pants
- Tastes Like Medicine
- Bat Body
- These Machines
- The Octopus
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