Chicago extreme metal trio, Immortal Bird, have unleashed their new single, “Plastered Sainthood.” It is track number 2 from their upcoming album, Sin Querencia, which will see an October 18th release, via the 20 Buck Spin record label. Head into the article below for the new song and more from the band.
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About the album, vocalist Rae Amitay shares:
“The album is called Sin Querencia — “Querencia” is a Spanish metaphysical concept with many definitions. It’s essentially a combination of a place where one feels at home, a place where one feels they can access their inner strength, somewhere safe, a place where one feels their most authentic self, etc. “Sin” means “without” — This album consistently explores, mourns, and confronts the destruction of that “space.””
About the track, Amitay comments:
““Plastered Sainthood” is about the damage we enact upon ourselves by consuming “death” and traveling various paths of harm because they are the most easily accessible. I was thinking about self-victimization at the expense of empowerment…tying one’s hands in symbolic solidarity instead of unshackling those around you.”
The 4 minute track blasts off from the very first few seconds, leading the listener into a frenzy of jagged open wounds and unrelenting power. Thematically, the song forces the listener face-forward into the pitch-black darkness of suffering needlessly.
Abandoning genre constraints, Immortal Bird coherently fuse elements of death and black metal, hardcore tumult, a dose of their city’s noise rock agitation, and a compositional complexity that recalls stalwart boundary-pushers like Gorguts and Ulcerate. Recording as a 3-piece on Sin Querencia, guitarist Nate Madden recorded the majority of bass along with multi-instrumentalist bandmates Rae Amitay and Matt Korajczyk. The trio have evolved their collaboration to forge a cacophonous maelstrom of jagged metal intricacy with a surgical clarity, seeing the combination of Madden on guitar and Korajczyk on drums at its most centered and engaging. The bands critically acclaimed, 2019 full length release, Thrive on Neglect, showed them maneuvering through an amalgam of sounds, blossoming into a warped and angular display of multi-layered anguish, that now serves as a springboard for further expansion on Sin Querencia.
Sin Querencia tracklisting:
01 Bioluminescent Toxins
02 Plastered Sainthood
03 Consanguinity
04 Propagandized
05 Ocean Endless
06 Synthetic Alliances
07 Contrarian Companions
08 Sin Querencia
Engineered & mixed by Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording in Chicago, IL in Spring 2024. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Immortal Bird is:
Rae Amitay (they/them) – Vocals, Lyrics, Keys, Synth
Matt Korajczyk (he/him) – Drums
Nate Madden (he/him) – Guitar
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