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Aboleth Sign to WURMGroup; New EP Recording Soon

Should be interesting to hear what Los Angeles two-piece Aboleth come up with for their next EP and how it sounds as filtered through the commercially-relevant knob-twisting of producer Ulrich Wild. The heavy blues rock duo offered up their debut outing, EP 1, on CD at the end of January and have announced they’ve signed with Wild‘s imprint, WURMGroup, for the follow-up short release, soon to be recorded.

Always a risk when a hard rock producer takes on a heavy rock band, but baguitarist — yeah, it’s kind of like a bass and a guitar; not that hard to figure out once you parse the word — Collyn McCoy seems to have a handle on the situation tonally, and his past experience in Trash Titan and Ed Mundell‘s The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic should continue to serve him well, while in the meantime, Wild is sure to coax the best out of vocalist Brigitte “The Kid” Roka, since getting top performances out of top performers is how one winds up a Grammy-winning producer in the first place. Or so I’m told.

More to come when I have it. Till then, the PR wire makes it official:

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ABOLETH signs with WURMGroup; Ulrich Wild to produce second EP

Los Angeles dirt metal duo ABOLETH announce today that they have signed with WURMgroup, the label founded in 2015 by multi-platinum producer Ulrich Wild (Dethklok, Pantera, Deftones, Static-x).

The band and Grammy-nominated producer convened last week at the world-famous House of Pies in Los Angeles to finalize the deal — in typical rock ‘n’ roll fashion — over pie.

In addition to signing Aboleth to his label, Wild will produce and mix the upcoming release. Drum duties for the EP will be handled by legendary skinsman Marco Minnemann (The Aristocrats, Joe Satriani, Necrophagist).

“I’m very excited to welcome Aboleth to the growing roster of WURMgroup acts,” Wild said. “I’ve known Collyn and Brigitte for years and have worked with both on several projects. They are incredibly talented, with very different influences. They are pushing the boundaries of rock, metal, and blues to create their own mutant musical reality.”

Aboleth was founded in 2016 by Collyn McCoy (Trash Titan, The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic) and 21-year-old whisky-throated belter Brigitte Roka. Roka propels the group with her Joplin-esque grit and soaring highs, while McCoy lays the sludgy foundation care of his baguitar — a bass/guitar hybrid that offers the lows of the former and the highs of the latter. Together the two meld stoner-doom with primal blues and desert rock to form what they have dubbed “dirt metal.” The seven-song EP will expand on the themes explored on their 2016 debut cassette – murder, revenge, lust, devil worship, and the benefits of a plant-based diet – while pushing their sound deeper into the proto-blues swamp hinted at in such tunes as “No Good.”

Aboleth has several upcoming shows in the Los Angeles area (with Rick Ferrante of Sasquatch/The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic on drums). Summer tour dates will be announced soon.

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