New Negative Reaction is nothing to sneeze at. It’s only been two years since the long-running sludge purveyors unleashed Astrophilia, their most recent album, but that record happened to follow nine years after 2011’s Frequencies From Montauk (review here) and followed a move from Long Island to West Virginia on the part of founding guitarist/vocalist Ken-E Bones, resulting in a complete restructuring of the lineup, so if they’ve got a little momentum at their backs now — Bones joined in the band by bassist KJ and drummer Brian Alien — that comes after what seems to have been a significant effort to make it happen. So yeah, no sneezing, you.

The next Negative Reaction full-length — it might be their seventh, depending on what you count; the band traces roots back over 30 years in one incarnation or another — is titled Zero Minus Infinity, and the lead single, “Back From the Sands,” can be streamed below. Astrophilia was themed as a sequel to the 38-minute-long “Moon Song” from 2000’s The Orion Chronicles — it was the opener, by the way, with one five-minute original and a Hawkwind cover rounding out — and I have no idea whether or not Zero Minus Infinity follows suit in that regard, expanding the story of what happens to humanity after Earth is destroyed, but I do know it’s sludgy as hell, mean in its lurch and jabbing in its riff, disaffection oozing from every measure even before you get to Bones‘ vocal fuckall, and that suits the moment just fine. As I haven’t seen a release date for the impending record as yet — sometime in 2023 presumed — it seems prudent to take what comes when it comes, and not sneeze in the process.

Art for the single, a note from the band, the song stream, and the Astrophilia stream follow:

New Single from Negative Reaction soon to be released album ‘Zero Minus Infinity’

A message from the captain of the space ship Negative Reaction….

“Hello everyone, I hope this message finds you all in good spirits. Negative Reaction has just released a new single, “Back From The Sands”, from the upcoming album “Zero Minus Infinity”. The coordinates for the single are in the attached link on bandcamp.

It features, back again, Brian Alien on drums!

We are still working on the rest of the album and hope to have a release date for you soon.

I hope you have a Happy and Safe New Year!

Cheers,
Captain Ken-E Bones

Negative Reaction are:
Ken-E Bones (Guitar, Vocals)
Brian Alien (Drums)
KJ (Bass)

https://www.facebook.com/NegativeReaction
https://negativereactionband.bandcamp.com/

Negative Reaction, “Back From the Sands”

Negative Reaction, Astrophilia (2020)

Tags: Negative Reaction, Negative Reaction Zero Minus Infinity, West Virginia

This entry was posted on Friday, December 9th, 2022 at 5:48 am and is filed under Whathaveyou. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.