Carolina hardcore/alt-rock hybrid, Excide, recently opened the book on their second album, Bastard Hymns. The new full-length arrives November 28, via SharpTone Records. The band have already shared visualizers for “Pariah,” and “Your Flowers,” as well as the official video for “Worth Your Salt.” Keep reading below for more.
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Regarding the single, vocalist Tyler Washington (also of Foreign Hands) states, “Some people just aren’t worth the attention that others pay to their opinions or general disdain for things. If I’ve learned anything, a closed mind is usually an ignorant or insecure one. This song is about how when you peel back that hard exterior, those pessimists usually don’t have much to show for how loudly they beat their chest.”
As for the accompanying video, he says, “A couple of us grew up loving the Lethal Weapon movies, and when music videos could be goofy. We wanted to do a spoof-like music video that hits all the stereotypical ’80s crime movie niches.”
Excide eclipse the constraints of era, genre, and vibe, blurring the lines between basement-born hardcore, fuzzed-out nineties alternative, and future-facing rock. Sonically, the band was inspired by the grooves and energy of late ’90s post-hardcore bands such as Cast Iron Hike and Snapcase, while siphoning melody and textural elements much the same as Quicksand and Cave In. And if you like Turnstile, you’ll dig Excide.
During 2020, Excide initially introduced a boundary-breaking signature style gestated across two tracks “Two of a Kind” and “Actualize/Radiation Reel.” Two years later, momentum picked up on the heels of their independent full-length debut, Deliberate Revolver which caught the attention of SharpTone Records and inked them a deal with the label.
Bastard Hymns is the logical next step from the band’s debut album, unafraid to shift gears a bit and take influence from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden, and Failure. Excide have been seen on underground headlining & support tours with bands like Dying Wish, Seeyousoonspacecowboy, and The Callous Daoboys. Overall, the album is self-described as a “fuzzy, rocky, groovy, angry record. Seeped in the woes of growing up in a hillbilly hellscape, and living to tell the tale.” The result of all this is Bastard Hymns.