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Today, infamous extreme metal instigators, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED, debuts “Not A Daughter,” from the band’s forthcoming new EP, Arc, via NPR Music. Said NPR of the opening track, “Led by [vocalist Kat] Katz, ‘Not A Daughter’ is from the twenty-seven-minute Arc, a relentlessly sludgy and doomy three-track EP from a band mostly known for delivering digital distress in twenty seconds or less. Since joining the band for 2009’s Agorapocalypse, Katz has proven to be the most feral of the three AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED vocalists. Here, her full-throated shrieks push and pull [guitarist Scott] Hull’s Crowbar-thick grooves and mean MC5 riffs. It’s as if ANb was always meant to be the scummiest rock ‘n’ roll band alive.”
Stream “Not A Daughter” now at THIS LOCATION.
Led by the distinctive howl of vocalist Kat Katz, Arc is a crushing, three-song onslaught of misanthropic, musical violence and the first in a series of four AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED EPs designed to decimate your total being. The twenty-five+ minute sludge-fueled feast is AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED sounding heavier, doomier and more destructive than ever before.
In related news and in conjunction with the release of Arc, both AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED‘s Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope and Altered States Of America full-lengths will be available on vinyl for the first time in over a decade.
Arc will be officially unveiled on January 22nd, 2016. Arc, along with the vinyl editions of Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope and Altered States Of America. Physical preorders are available now RIGHT HERE, and digital preorders are available at THIS LOCATION.
Sample the vinyl trailer at THIS LOCATION.
An overwhelming, concentrated outpouring of perceptual stimuli, the band’s second full-length, the 2002-issued Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope, referenced the glory days of early ’00s grindcore while disregarding the genre’s then-current ideals, becoming one of the most talked-about grindcore records in recent history. The album and band were featured in numerous high-profile media outlets such as Alternative Press, Kerrang!, CMJ and dozens more. Perhaps Frozen Corpse‘s best description came from vocalist J. Randall who surmised, “Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope is like ripping through back catalog Earache blastbeat shit armed with a submachine gun at 400 rounds per minute.”
While the fires left burning in Frozen Corpse‘s wake were still smoldering, AGORAPHOBIC set to work on a concept so bizarre, no one would believe it. With a focused mindset, and a plethora of mind-confounding ideas, the band wrote and recorded Altered States Of America, a 100-track three-CD set. Initially released on April Fools Day, 2003, Altered States Of America delivered the most ambitious AGORAPHOBIC yet: completely inhuman music with a consummate disregard for its listener. Round after round, clip after clip, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED unloaded an arsenal of stupefying guitar work, experimental noise and drum machine-gun blast beats while swarming vocalists hatefully taunted the listener into the crossfire. Kerrang! called the mini-CD, “disorientating, hallucinatory, utterly deranged and a truly fantastic work of musical extremity.”
AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED will bring their sonic abrasions to stages next year with performances at the Netherlands Deathfest in February and Hellfest in June.
AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED Live:
2/26-28/2016 Netherlands Deathfest – Tilburg, NL
6/18/2016 Hellfest – Clisson, FR
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