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Stone Titan Premiere “Whale Bone”; New EP Coming Soon

Posted in audiObelisk on September 4th, 2018 by JJ Koczan

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You’ve got two minutes, right? For the sake of feedback-drenched fuckall sludge? Of course you do. It’s easy to imagine the trio Stone Titan destroying any number of punk rock basements and/or houses in their native New Haven, the shocked faces of Yale freshmen looking on as they tear into a cut like “Whale Bones” from their forthcoming self-titled EP, which unloads a barrage of screams, riffs, noise and crash, and then is gone as quickly as it arrived. Dudes would be sure to blow a fuse, at very least, blinking out the inevitable Xmas lights strung up around the place to give it that you’re-definitely-at-a-house-show feel. I’ve had the privilege of running into Stone Titan a couple times over the years — once in Connecticut in 2011 (review here) and again in Massachusetts in 2014 (review here) and they were remarkably brash then. “Whale Bone” would seem to indicate that not much has changed in that regard. So be it.

Their new EP was tracked in MA by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios, and the punishment “Whale Bone” exudes is in every punkish bark and bite the brief track has on offer. I would imagine it’s not the only assault on the upcoming short release, but I haven’t heard the full thing to comment on it. In any case, Stone Titan‘s debut long-player, 2013’s Scratch ‘n’ Sniff, had its share of sans-frills barrages as well, but they were only a part of the overall scope of the outing, which also realized its mesmerizing tones and maddening sludge push in songs like “A Brief History of Overweight Men” and the pretty-much-says-it-all opener “I Wish I was Fucking Dead,” and 2015’s Moonshine followed suit. Stone Titan have been around for a while at this point — a decade as of this year — but their attack has only become more vicious for that, and “Whale Bone” poaches hard-hitting aural beatings with a purpose that underscores their collective experience.

The EP will be out… at some point. Whenever they get to it, I guess. The artwork is being finalized now, so extrapolate from there. In the meantime, you can stream the premiere of “Whale Bone” below and dig into its harsh and all-too-real aspects.

Please enjoy:

Stone Titan, “Whale Bone” official track premiere

This is “Whale Bone” from the new Stone Titan EP out Fall 2018

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