Zaraza to Issue Spasms of Rebirth CD in July; New Video Now Playing
Posted in Whathaveyou on June 6th, 2017 by JJ Koczan
Multi-continental two-piece Zaraza are set to press their first record in more than a decade next month. The CD is called Spasms of Rebirth, which seems appropriate enough both for thinking of the band as a returning entity given how long it’s been since their last long-player and in terms of the visceral, primal kind of violence from which the material on the album is derived. Released for streaming in May, Spasms of Rebirth finds its semi-industrialized main comparison point in Godflesh, but as you can see in the video below for opening track “Church of Gravity,” there’s plenty of experimentalist bite of its own to go around as well from the pair of Jacek Damaged and Brain Damage, whose last full-length was 2003’s No Paradise to Lose.
The PR wire brought the following:
ZARAZA to unearth new album after nearly 15 years
ZARAZA are a Canadian/Ecuadorian duo and have been around for almost 25 years. Despite that and their innovative music, they’ve been very underground and largely overlooked. After a gap of around 15 years, they’ve finally come up with a new full length album. Fans of DRUG HONKEY in particular should dig this.
ZARAZA, the Canadian/Ecuadorian industrial sludge/doom band announce their latest full length after a gap of almost 15 years. Having been around since 1993, they were among the pioneers in the creation of this kind of bizarre yet forward-thinking sludge/doom metal, merging the aesthetics of bands like GODFLESH, SWANS, CORRUPTED, UNHOLY, DISEMBOWELMENT and SKEPTICISM to create a sound that’s unique. Over the years, they’ve only tried to establish their identity by expanding upon their groundbreaking template by including elements of crushing sludge and sonic dissonance, and despite innumerable struggles and distance-related issues, the duo have released an album that’s worth the wait. It’s gargantuan in its scope and revolutionizes the method to go about playing sludge/doom with this pensive, electrically-charged atmosphere.
Line up:
Jacek Damaged – vox, guitars, bass, programming
Brian Damage – keyboards, samplers, vocals
Track list:
1. Church of Gravity 06:11
2. Maskwearer 07:03
3. Inti Raymi 05:10
4. Blood.ov.Psychiatrists 05:20
5. Roadkill to You 06:45
6. Wulkan 08:00
7. [BONUS] Wulkan (Brian Damage Remix) 05:58
https://zaraza.bandcamp.com/album/spasms-of-rebirth
https://www.facebook.com/zarazadoom/
