A couple crucial learnings from the new At Devil Dirt track as it relates to the promise of an upcoming album. First, the Santiago, Chile, two-piece continue to rule and be righteously heavy. Not unexpected — especially after they unveiled the 12-mintue demo “We are Mapuches” (posted here) earlier this year — but good to know. Second, they found the internet archive of historical anatomy drawings and made the only-ever-correct decision to use it for some cover art. Been there. Third, they’re still making progress as they head toward a new album, which when it surfaces will be their first full-length since 2013’s Plan B: Sin Revolución no hay Evolución (review here).

That’s not an insignificant stretch of time between outings, but between the nearly 13 minutes of the prior single and and nearly nine of the new one below, they’ve got about a vinyl side’s worth of material out there, even if it is in unfinished form. “We are Mapuches” was listed as a demo, and “Now Swim in the Soul” is being tagged as a rough mix, so if they’ve moved from that pre-production stage to mixing, that at least means some portion of the proper recording process is done. Enough to have a rough mix of this track, anyhow. What else may or may not be done remains to be seen, but the band say the record will hit Bandcamp sometime in the near future. The fittingly Sleepy central riff and the languid vocal melody in “Now Sleep in the Soul” only bode well for what might follow.

“Now Sleep in the Soul” and “We are Mapuches” can both be streamed below:

A quick mix of the new ADD, listen, comment, support, soon uploads the full album in bandcamp, whoever is interested in this record, we will be delivering download codes only to our compatriots…. those outside who are interested in this record pay for it

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At Devil Dirt, “We are Mapuches”