Post-metal titans Sumac have released a new single, ‘Attis’ Blade’ from their new album Love In Shadow due out soon from Thrill Jockey. Jam it out right now!

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Earlier this year, the trio released the collaborative album American Dollar Bill – Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On with acclaimed Japanese artist Keiji Haino. Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom) explains: “While all Love In Shadow was written before our recording session with Haino, that experience further bolstered our confidence to travel further into territories free of preconceived structure and melody. Immediacy, intuition, and risk have become an increasingly important aspect of our music making.”

Turner continues: “Before SUMAC was even a fully-formed band there was a goal I had in mind for how to approach writing songs: marrying fully realized structures to freely improvised movements – and trying to find fluid passages between these worlds. ‘Attis’ Blade’ is a breakthrough for us in that it comes closer to meeting that goal than anything else we’ve written previously. It’s a song I’m happy with in its own right, and more importantly as a key to the next step in our evolutional process. In this song I hear the three of us learning to trust one another more fully, and collectively embracing a more expansive dimension of our existence. Lyrically the song has to do with succumbing to base desires, the subsequent self-abuse/admonishment to atone for these perceived transgressions of moral code, and also the personal histories that can lead to this kind of behavioral dysfunction.”

Sumac tour dates:

Sep. 1 – Chicago, IL – Scorched Tundra X at Empty Bottle ^

Sep. 2 – Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Company #

Sep. 3 – Detroit, MI – El Club *

Sep. 4 – Toronto, ON – The Garrison *

Sep. 5 – Montreal, QC – Bar Le “Ritz” P.D.B. *

Sep. 6 – Allston, MA – Great Scott *

Sep. 7 – Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitus *

Sep. 8 – Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust *

Sep. 9 – Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA *

Sep. 11 – Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel *

Sep. 12 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter *

Sep. 14 – Durham, NC – The Pinhook *

Sep. 15 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl *

Sep. 16 – Nashville, TN – The End *

^ w/ Yakuza, In The Company of Serpents, Couch Slut

# w/ John Mueller, Infernal Coil

* w/ Dalek, Infernal Coil

Pre-order Sumac’s Love In Shadow here.

Sumac, Love In Shadow track listing:

1. The Task

2. Attis’ Blade

3. Arcing Silver

4. Ecstasy of Unbecoming