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Sin Querencia, the latest full-length from Chicago’s most uniquely harrowing, technically ferocious chaos unit IMMORTAL BIRD, is currently streaming in its entirety! The premiere comes in advance of the record’s official unveiling this Friday, October 18th on 20 Buck Spin.
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.
Notes Decibel Magazine, “Every song has its own internal logic and never takes a heel turn that feels like a superfluous parlor trick. The fact that Sin Querencia also manages to be absurdly catchy defies conventional wisdom as it pertains to what an album this extreme can be.” Stereogum concurs, “In their eleventh year, the Chicago three-piece continues to set the bar for big, bruising, intricate, and deep-feeling blackened metal, and in Sin Querencia they have put together a work as layered and captivating as the human mind.”
Stream IMMORTAL BIRD’s Sin Querencia at THIS LOCATION.
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.
20 Buck Spin will release Sin Querencia on LP, CD, and digitally. Find preorders at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Fans of Krallice, Inter Arma, Pyrrhon, Full Of Hell, Converge, Thantifaxath, Tomb Mold, and Yellow Eyes, pay heed.
Sin Querencia Track Listing:
- Bioluminescent Toxins
- Plastered Sainthood
- Consanguinity
- Propagandized
- Ocean Endless
- Synthetic Alliances
- Contrarian Companions
- 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]
“Every song has its own internal logic and never takes a heel turn that feels like a superfluous parlor trick. The fact that Sin Querencia also manages to be absurdly catchy defies conventional wisdom as it pertains to what an album this extreme can be.” – Decibel Magazine
“In their eleventh year, the Chicago three-piece continues to set the bar for big, bruising, intricate, deep-feeling blackened metal, and in Sin Querencia they have put together a work as layered and captivating as the human mind.” – Stereogum
“…a melting pot of an album, expanding on what made IMMORTAL BIRD so alluring when they first gained traction around ten years ago… IMMORTAL BIRD is a touchstone of modern metal’s unfaltering genre-warping, done with the care and passion you’d expect from fans of the craft…” – Lambgoat
“IMMORTAL BIRD sounds confident and assured on this new record. The songwriting is strong, as are the band’s performances and the record’s production values. The singer’s voice sounds better than ever too, and more diverse in delivery. The screams are more venomous, and the roars more monstrous.” – Wonderbox Metal
“Ripping through its runtime like a tornado, there is no stopping them and as we drop into Sin Querencia they give us one of the finest performances of the year. That combination of technical and brutal, deftly balanced, is here for all to see. I don’t know what a unit of chaos is, but I think that this would be it… the musicianship, the sound, everything is just excellent…” – Metal Epidemic
“From sludge to black metal, from crust to grindcore, IMMORTAL BIRD creates a monster of a record that transcends conventional genres and takes its place in an eccentric realm of its own.” – Voices From The Darkside
IMMORTAL BIRD:
Rae Amitay – vocals, keys, synth
Matt Korajczyk – drums
Nate Madden – guitar, bass
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