Chicago’s Immortal Bird are rapidly approaching the release of their third album, Sin Querencia. The full-length is due to drop on October 18th, via the 20 Buck Spin record label, in LP, CD, and digital formats. They also recently shared a second track from the album, “Bioluminescent Toxins.” Check it out below and find out more.
Pre-order Sin Querencia here: https://20buckspin.bandcamp.com/album/sin-querencia
Immortal Bird’s 2019-released Thrive On Neglect LP saw the band 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 the new album, Sin Querencia. Abandoning genre constraints, Immortal Bird coherently fuses 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 trio on Sin Querencia, guitarist Nate Madden recorded most of the bass along with multi-instrumentalist bandmates Rae Amitay and Matt Korajczyk. The trio has evolved their collaboration to forge a cacophonous maelstrom of jagged metal intricacy with surgical clarity, seeing the combination of Madden on guitar and Korajczyk on drums at its most centered and engaging.
Amitay gives another heart-rending and diverse vocal performance over the frenzied tempest the band lays down, riven with a focused and energized hostility. They also utilize dulcet and haunting layers of clean vocals on the opening track “Bioluminescent Toxins” in a quieter moment, demonstrating the band’s dynamic abilities and desire to broaden their sonic horizons. Amitay’s thought-provoking lyrical range weaves through visceral subject matter, threading together allegory and allusion in vehement admonishments of hypocrisy, as well as confronting our brutal complicity and complacency in our current reality.
Featuring aggressively muscular engineering, recording, and mixing from Pete Grossmann of Chicago’s Bricktop Recording (Harm’s Way, Weekend Nachos, Mouth For War), the thunderous mastering work of Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Obituary, Nails, Full Of Hell), and completed with cover art by the band’s longtime artist of choice Kikyz1313 and layout and design by Eddie Limperis, Sin Querencia marks a new milestone in Immortal Bird’s now decade-plus-year history as their most structurally extreme and wide-ranging performance to date. Fans of Krallice, Inter Arma, Pyrrhon, Full Of Hell, Converge, Thantifaxath, Tomb Mold, and Yellow Eyes should not miss Immortal Bird’s Sin Querencia. Stream the album’s previous single “Plastered Sainthood” here: https://youtu.be/C6d1kUQMssg
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
Having toured with a wide spectrum of extreme acts over the years, including having been selected to open for Emperor in Chicago in 2023, Immortal Bird is planning widespread touring in the months ahead and throughout next year. The band is scheduled to perform two dual-record release shows with Mother Of Graves, both celebrating their new albums together in their respective home cities, November 15th in Indianapolis and November 23rd in Chicago.
Immortal Bird live:
11/15/2024 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN w/ Mother Of Graves, Huntsmen, Atavistic Decay [info]
11/23/2024 Reggies – Chicago, IL w/ Mother Of Graves, Payasa, Apophy [info]
Immortal Bird:
Rae Amitay – Vocals, keys, synth
Matt Korajczyk – Drums
Nate Madden – Guitar, bass
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