Methadone Skies Announce Spectres at Dawn Out Oct. 25; New Song Streaming
The PR wire posits below that Spectres at Dawn is the heaviest album to-date from Romanian troupe Methadone Skies, and I’ll admit that when I turned on the video for lead single “’87 via ’94,” it hit harder than I was expecting. Not gonna complain about it. The Timisoara-based four-piece were last heard from with 2021’s Retrofuture Caveman (review here), and they’ll self-release Spectres at Dawn on Oct. 25 through Haywire Records. They’re well within their rights to add some brashness to the proceedings. Spectres at Dawn is the sixth Methadone Skies full-length. If not now, when?
I’d tell you more about the record, but I haven’t heard it yet. The single does its job though in making me want to unpack the .zip file and have at it, so hopefully it won’t be long before I get there. And in any case, Spectres at Dawn is out Oct. 25. That’s next month. You can wait for it.
Or maybe not. Here’s this from the PR wire:
METHADONE SKIES /// Romanian Post Rockers Return with New Album | Watch the Crazy Video for New Single Now!
Spectres at Dawn is released 25th October 2024 on Haywire Records | Pre-order HERE: https://methadoneskies.bandcamp.com/album/spectres-at-dawn
Three years on from the release of Retrofuture Caveman, the Romanian quartet are back with arguably their heaviest record yet…
Formed in Timisoara, Romania, 2024 finds instrumental rock titans Methadone Skies celebrating their fifteenth year around the sun with the release of their sixth studio album, Spectres at Dawn.
Due for release this October on their own imprint, Haywire Records, their latest forty-minute foray into the realms of heavy psych, doom, and prog, pushed the key tenets of underground rock through the stratosphere. Offering up post-rock landscapes, stoner grooves and sonic concepts, Methadone Skies have cut the formula of previous releases with a more direct, hyper intense focus on shorter, punchier bouts of uncompromising sound. As Metal Storm put it best, “If you’ve ever wondered what post-metal would sound like if it developed from stoner metal instead of sludge metal, Methadone Skies clearly share your fascination.”
To herald their return the band is thrilled to share a brand-new video. Directed by Flavius Retea and Alexandra Dragu (AKA Eclecticat Design) ‘) ”87 via ’94’ is an aural vortex of big riffs and swirling raves, and the first single to be lifted from Spectres at Dawn.
“It was actually the first song we put together for this album,” explains guitarist Casian Stanciu. “We’ve played it live for a couple of years and it’s always fun for us. It’s catchy so it always gets the audience dancing. The video however takes a 180 degree turn on this vibe and follows a person fed up with his corporate 9-to-5 job. He ultimately has a nervous breakdown. It was fun to film.”
Having played over two hundred shows with acts like Samsara Blues Experiment, Motorpsycho, Yawning Man, My Sleeping Karma, Stoned Jesus and 1000MODS, and taken in several festivals across Central and Eastern Europe (Doom Over Vienna, Lake on Fire, Thulsa Doom Fest) Methadone Skies will also embark on a tour in support of Spectres at Dawn, dates for which can be found below.
Spectres at Dawn is released 25th October 2024 on Haywire Records and can be pre-ordered here: https://methadoneskies.bandcamp.com/album/spectres-at-dawn
TOUR:
26th October – Escape Hub, Timisoara (w. Valerinne, Black Water)
20th November – Quantic Pub, Bucuresti (w. Valerinne, Black Water)
21st November – Love Bar, Sibiu
22nd November – Flying Circus, Cluj-Napoca (w. The Thirteenth Sun)
30th November – Rockstadt, Brasov (w. Black Water)
TRACKLIST:
1. To No Avail
2. ’87 via ’94
3. Mano Cornetto
4. Thrill Estate
5. Sheryl Low
6. Use the Excessive Force
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Consonance Studio in Timisoara, Romania by Andrei Jumuga and Cristian Popescu. Additional keyboards on track 6 by Marius Muntean (Thirteenth Sun, Black Water). Artwork, layout, and design by Alexandra Dragu AKA Eclecticat Design.
METHADONE SKIES:
Alexandru Wehry – Guitar
Casian Stanciu – Guitar, E-Bow
Mihai Guta – Bass
Flavius Retea – Drums, Percussion, Keyboards
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