Release Date: January 28, 2022
FFO: Hatebreed, Terror, Brick By Brick
PA's
metallic hardcore heathens release the second chapter to their debut
release on Upstate Records, "Life...And Everything After"; an emotional
rollercoaster of pure aggression and angst that is sure to leave the
listener battered and bruised!
This
heavy metallic hardcore outfit out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania,
revels in a particularly down 'n' dirty brand of aggression. Their
catalog is rife with cranium-crushing instrumentation, emotive lyrical
content, a methodically vicious bite, and more pent-up antagonism than
most can reasonably muster. Overtly inspired by literary greats such as
Edgar Allen Poe and Arthur Rimbaud, and following in the musical
footsteps of acts such as The Acacia Strain, Baptists, and A Life Once
Lost, Gloves Off comfortably wreck havoc in the no man's land that sits
somewhere between "firmly grounded" and "explosively volatile." From a
musical, emotional, and thematic standpoint, this quintet’s output bears
considerable weight.
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Photo Credit: Ariella Lungin
Gloves
Off’s next project, out January 28th, 2022 in collaboration with
Upstate Records , isn’t entirely typical. The framework of this
forthcoming is deliberately unconventional, born of the implicit
challenges presented by the pandemic. The first four tracks were
released in March of 2020 in the form of an EP entitled Life, which
appears here once more alongside five brand new songs seeking to explore
...And Everything After. If the preexisting tracks comprising Life
aren't enough to accordingly whet your whistle, keep one ear open for
the Poe-inspired lead single "Conqueror Worm,"--an homage to the play of
man wherein the titular harbinger of apocalypse is the true hero--which
will drop on December 10th of this year. A subsequent second single,
the gritty yet emotively bombastic "My Death Was a Banquet," inspired by
Rimbaud's "A Season In Hell," enters the arena on January 7th.
Although
bifurcated, this project forms a cohesive whole: in the words of
vocalist Cody Clark, the project’s tail end is an exploration of the
process after the loss of life. Life and death are intrinsically hefty
topics, and Gloves Off strives to exorcize the demons rather than simply
pretending they don’t exist. As such, Life...And Everything After is an
intentionally therapeutic project, both for the band and for any
listener grappling with the enormity of life, death, and inevitable
loss. And, lest we forget the exhilaration of peeling off the gloves and
throwing hands: grappling in a physical sense is wholeheartedly
encouraged as well.
"In
the second part of our release "...And Everything After" we wrote it
not as in the process of losing everything (Life),but the process after
the loss of losing everything, there's a certain romance and poetic
stance on death that can be beautiful as well as disturbing, we write
what we like as a band, musically and lyrically, just so happens we
think about life and death in a dark sense instead of hiding demons, we
let them out in a therapeutic way for the listener as well as us to
enjoy" -Cody Clark, Vocalist
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