USURP SYNAPSE
"Jaw One"
exclusive song/music video premiere
exclusive song/music video premiere
For fans of: Lower Automation, Whores and Jeromes Dream
New USURP SYNAPSE. More info soon.
(2024) USURP SYNAPSE "Jaw One" official music video
Tuesday 16 April 2024
Monday 15 April 2024
*** PARTY HATS + VS SELF + KNUMEARS + CATALYST split premiere/order link ***
CATALYST + KNUMEARS + VS SELF + PARTY HATS
"Split"
exclusive album premiere
exclusive album premiere
CATALYST
KNUMEARS
LARRY RECORDS
ORDER LINK ---> order link goes live at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST <--- ORDER LINK
I am fucking ecstatic to be the one bringing you the exclusive first premiere of the entire 7" 4-Way split featuring four of the hottest screamo bands around. Larry Records had this to say about its origin:
"This split was heavily inspired by the 4 way split series ZBR did a few years ago. I wanted to take my 4 favorite new screamo bands and throw'em together for a super split. I’m very happy it worked out, and maybe I’ll do a second volume if you guys like it!"
You heard it! Pick this sucker up so we can get another incredible 4-Way Larry split 7". In a few weeks @milkcrate_merch will be doing t shirts too!
12" Split breakdown: 900 copies total
-200 on half neon violet half black (vs self)
-200 on half neon green half black (knumears)
-200 on half neon yellow half black (catalyst)
-200 on half neon pink and half black (party hats)
-100 on black wax with an alternative cover (larry exclusive / pre-order here after 12pm EST!!!)
CATALYST "Yesterday's Apology"
KNUMEARS "no count"
VS SELF "tide and swell"
PARTY HATS "Today's For Sale"
KNUMEARS "no count"
VS SELF "tide and swell"
PARTY HATS "Today's For Sale"
CATALYST kicks this thing off with the exceptional "Yesterday's Apology", which carries an air of impatience before sliding nicely into a groove section followed by some dark-ass panic chords and a spoken word section, as well as mixtures of the aforementioned styles. KNUMEARS is next and their pretty lengthy jam of "no count" clocks in at 4:07 and is the heaviest/fastest song on the split. The song creates an excellent mood before catapulting into what is almost a mixture of Senza and Ostraca, I shit you not, and it is glorious. VS SELF begins the second half with arguably their strongest song to date, melding together D'Amore-esque screamo with the emo noodlings of The Exploration. Their grasp of making the softer stuff pop whilst continuing to take the sound into darker territory is very fun to watch in realtime. Closer "Today's For Sale" by PARTY HATS also falls into the noodlier category, but goes both more ramen and screamier than the splits previous band, teetering between the two extremes and showing off why they are playing ZBR Fest 2024.
Saturday 13 April 2024
.22LR
Band: .22LR
For fans of: Frail Body, Othiel, Gil Cerrone, Youth Funeral, Crowning, Brahm, Elle, Beau Navire, and Heavenly Blue.
Genres: Punk / Emo / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence
For fans of: Frail Body, Othiel, Gil Cerrone, Youth Funeral, Crowning, Brahm, Elle, Beau Navire, and Heavenly Blue.
Genres: Punk / Emo / Screamo / Skramz / Emo-violence
Related artists: Less Dead, Low Before The Breeze, Noisy Sins Of The Insect, Stevan Filopovic, Tara Tarama, and Jornada Del Muerto.
Country: Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A. + Istanbul TURKEY
Years Active: 2024-present
Years Active: 2024-present
Label(s): Tomb Tree / Mevzu Records
After releasing such an incredible debut I felt it necessary to try and push it a bit more through this blog, cuz goddamn why aren't more people talking about how awesome this is?
Born from the ashes of Less Dead and Low Before The Breeze, the origin of the band is traced by their members in this exclusive Idioteq.com piece that you need to check out if you dig this release. Essentially their final member if from Turkey but has been frequenting the U.S. enough for him to be included in the fold, and has spent time in a few bands including the most notable Noisy Sins Of The Insect and Jornada Del Muerto.
The bands' sound is rooted in fast, short, violent bursts of screamo but manage to hit the slow motion button and insert some incredible nuances, frills, and melodies not unlike Frail Body, Youth Funeral, and Othiel. It's almost like screamo on speed then diced up with post-hardcore. 36-second opener "Once/Always" teases a lone guitar before pulverizing the listener with lightning fast instrumentals and a buncha vocalists screaming. "Sinking" shows the band showing a firm grasp of soft/hard and slow/fast dynamics with hella atmosphere that teeter into black metal territory but bring it back to pulsating screamo at the one-minute mark. Continuing the heater trajectory, "Alone" blazes through its first 30 seconds before planting firmly into some slower, very accessible, emo/post-hardcore instrumentals that showcase the band's aforementioned ability to balance a feather with an anvil. "Too Late" follows in a similar path (aka fire) and then shifts into slightly slower, but this time to a much heavier, cathartic, and sinister second half with the best vocals on the entire EP. "Gratitude Denied" and "Golden Calf" both show the band gravitating toward the emo/post-hardcore/screamo sound I mentioned earlier with injections of both beauty and chaos. Closer "Epilogue" is an instrumental number but not the throwaway kind, rather the epic-closer kind.
I can't recommend this EP enough. I think it's fucking stellar, bias be damned.
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DISCOGRAPHY
2024 - .22lr cassette EP (listen/download/buy here)
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(2024) .22LR - "Too Late" (from '.22lr')
(2024) .22LR - "Alone" (from '.22lr')
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