photos by Ryan Bardsley
The Sleeping Shaman is hosting the exclusive premiere of a new video from Chicago-based noise rock trio SALVATION. The video is for the new single “Depression,” found on the band’s fifth LP, The Haunted, nearing release on Reptilian Records.
The Haunted delivers an expectedly slamming dose of groove-laden dirge that SALVATION’s diehard fanbase has come to expect and love. Throughout the album’s ten tracks, the band fuses bits of bluesey Americana, punk, and alternative into their driving noise rock delivery. Recorded in Chicago at Electrical Audio by Taylor Hales and at Palisade Studios by Erik Rasmussen, who also handled mixing and mastering duties, The Haunted is completed with cover photo by Ceyda Tekin, insert photos by Brian Santostefano and Arman Mabry, and back cover photo and layout by SWZ.
SALVATION’s video for “Depression” was directed and produced by SWZ with live videography by AJE Subsist Studio. Guitarist/vocalist Jason Sipe writes, “I really enjoyed leaning into the challenge of taking on what I felt was an honest depiction of the struggle that is depression… while navigating the truths and lies of getting through it. And that’s the important part… getting through it, telling others the madness will subside and you’ll be okay. I also enjoyed the challenge and opportunity to express myself that way in the form of a punk song with two slammin’, badass band members to do it with, and help craft the explosion of sound it became. Being in this band is more fun than Christmas morning… and that’s coming from a kid that has ‘Depression.’ For lovers of all things blues, punk, noise rock, breathing, and The Twilight Zone.”
With their premiere of the new song/video, The Sleeping Shaman writes, “Today, The ‘Shaman is thrilled to host the premiere for ‘Depression,’ a track that pairs the band’s signature wall-of-sound amplification with an unfiltered, visceral look at internal struggle. Fusing heavy-hitting noise-rock with a gritty punk and grunge edge, it captures the trio operating at peak power, driven by thundering low-ends, punishing percussion, and raw, emotive vocals.”
SALVATION has your cure for “Depression,” now playing at The Sleeping Shaman HERE.
The Haunted will be released on LP and digitally on October 16th. Preorders can be made at the Reptilian Records webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “Already Dead” is also playing HERE.
Additional previews of the record should be expected in the coming days. SALVATION is also booking shows in support of The Haunted, with more shows for November and December in the works.
Since the release of their first album in 2015, SALVATION has hammered the masses with a pummeling brew of infectious racket blending the enduring traits of noise rock with a touch of more accessible grunge approach, stacked with hooks and even more amplification, resulting in blown-out glory, spiraling downward like a party on the last night on Earth. Moments of their songs invoke Nirvana’s sweet, melodic annihilation, others verge on the unhinged twang of Lollipop or Cows. Drummer Brian Wnukowski (Big’n) hammers the skins like he’s avenging an unforeseen crime while bassist Victor Riley fleshes out the thundering low-end, and guitarist/vocalist Jason Sipe holds court with a formidable voice – a mix of power and pain, confidence and vulnerability, he commands attention with every holler and howl.
Their first three albums Royal Fucks (2015), Sore Loser (2017), and Year Of The Fly (2019) were released through Forge Again Records, after which SALVATION joined with the long-running Reptilian Records for the 2022 release of their fourth album, Mock. Decibel Magazine once wrote, “The space afforded by the band’s relative compactness allows the bass to build while a key noise element, feedback, stretches. The resultant workout runs through exercises that touch on trio peers past and present: Whores, Unsane, the Melvins and Nirvana. Hell, a slightly more metallic edge would turn it into a full-on metalcore banger. It’s a full flex of the musical muscles of mayhem…” Of Mock, No Echo proclaimed, “The group’s classic Sub Pop meets AmRep noise rock has built up into a lean and mean beast of an operation,” and Idioteq stated, “SALVATION have pulled off one of the great albums in the genre this year, a masterpiece of dark, raucous, noise rock…”
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