Stoneburner Sign to Neurot Recordings
Kudos to Portland, Oregon-based sludgers Stoneburner on signing to Neurot Recordings. The heavy, heavy (yup, they’re heavy enough to say it twice) four-piece will issue their new album, Life Drawing, through the venerable imprint this coming spring. Their last album, Sickness Will Pass (discussed here), was their full-length debut and came out in 2012 on Seventh Rule.
Having already shared the stage with an impressive list of bands that you can see below, Stoneburner will join Eyehategod, Graves at Sea and others at the Oakland Metro Operahouse on Jan. 24 for what’s sure to be one of the crustiest nights in the early New Year. Poster for that and announcement of the signing follow here, courtesy of the PR wire:
STONEBURNER: Portland Sludge Metallers Join The Neurot Recordings Family
The Neurot Recordings family is pleased to welcome the audio devastation that is Portland’s STONEBURNER to their expanding roster of forward-thinking music.
Featuring four members with a compelling musical ancestry that winds through Buried At Sea, Buried Blood, Heathen Shrine and more, STONEBURNER — named after a subterranean weapon from the novel Dune — spews forth a groin-churning orchestration of crust-strewn, hypnotic, sludge metal, their torrid odes glazed with pain and distress. The band will unleash the follow-up to their 2012 debut full-length, Sickness Will Pass, which The Sludgelord fittingly crowned, “an ugly, visceral and truly terrifying beast of an album,” via Neurot Recordings this Spring. Titled Life Drawing, the offering promises to take their sonic crush to entirely new levels of heaviness.
Notes the STONEBURNER collective on their union with Neurot: “We’ve been working on the material for this album for a long time now and couldn’t feel better about how it’s come together. We’re humbled and honored that Neurot have asked to be involved. Since the band formed, we’ve always done our best to work with people we respect and know personally, signing to Neurot is an extension of that…another step in combining our personal and musical lives and bringing it all full circle.”
STONEBURNER was spawned in early 2008 though the bands’ familial roots reach back two decades. To describe STONEBURNER’s music one need only look to the list of bands with whom they’ve shared the stage: Yob, Sleep, Eyehategod, Neurosis, Buzzov-en, Weedeater, Saint Vitus, Watain, Tragedy, Noothgrush, Graves At Sea, Lord Dying, Drop Dead, Whitehorse, Windhand, Bastard Noise and so on. For STONEBURNER, it’s all about domination through amplification and soul-cleansing catharsis.
STONEBURNER personnel:
Elijah Boland – guitar
Jason Depew – guitar
Damon Kelly – bass/vocals
Jesse McKinnon drums/vocals
Further STONEBURNER intel, including Life Drawing release date and track listing, to be announced in the coming weeks.
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