Photo by Jesi Cason
Florida-based heavy rock unit THE ELECTRIC MUD are pleased to unveil their video for “Gone Are The Days.” Now playing at Echoes And Dust, the track comes off the band’s Ashes And Bone full-length, recently released via Small Stone Recordings.
Boasting a heavier, more aggressive sound that owes as much to the sludgy, prog inflected ferocity of Soundgarden or Mastodon as it does the eerie proto-metal riffing of Black Sabbath and soulful energy of Graveyard, Ashes And Bone is a firmly taken musical step forward into the future as much as it is the sound of a band taking care of unfinished business.
Notes Echoes And Dust, “Ashes And Bone… sees the band triumph with a brilliant collection of songs infused with both classic rock and psychedelic influences.”
Elaborates guitarist Constantine Grim on “Gone Are The Days,” “This is one of the tracks we’re most excited to share. It employs some of the heaviest riffs on the record but takes its time and juxtaposes some light dynamics with the shade. Lyrically, it encapsulates the paranoia and lamentations of the age we live in.”
Watch THE ELECTRIC MUD’s “Gone Are The Days” video at THIS LOCATION.
Watch the band’s previously released lyric video for the record’s title track HERE.
Ashes And Bone, which features album artwork and design by Alexander von Wieding, is available on CD, LP and digital formats.
Find orders at the Small Stone Recordings Bandcamp page at THIS LOCATION.
It’s been three years since the release of THE ELECTRIC MUD’s Black Wool EP and, encouraged by friends, family, and the brass at Small Stone, the band is excited to announce their return. They believed they had more to say, and that their best music was still in front of them. They believed the ideas and creative philosophy that brought the band to life and to the precipice of so many exciting things just a few short years ago had to be carried to the next point in their evolution. A new full-length album, it was decided, was the best way to make that statement.
During the writing sessions a theme emerged: Mankind’s obsession with its own destruction. Where did it come from, and where will it take us? THE ELECTRIC MUD intended to examine some of the darker angels of our nature, and set it to a heavy, post-apocalyptic soundtrack. Decamping to Juniper Recordings in Cape Coral, Florida, and bringing Caleb Neff aboard not just to engineer the record but produce it created an open and creative environment in the studio that’s integral to the sound. There is a deep collaborative bond stitched into the fabric of the record, a collection of heavy sounds and ideas that are truly egalitarian in nature. The point is emphatically driven home with a fantastic mix by Ben Mcleoud, studio wiz by day, guitar demigod for All Them Witches by night. The resulting record, Ashes And Bone, has been a labor of love, and a reminder of what they love about music and each other.
THE ELECTRIC MUD:
Constantine Grim – guitar
Pierson Whicker – drums and percussion
Peter Kolter – vocals and guitar
Tommy Scott – bass
Special Guests:
Joe Reppert – organ and keys on “Wrath Of The Mighty”
Jon Meek – synths on “Wrath Of The Mighty” and “Ace”
“The riffs are massive and dense, throwing off some awesome old-school doom energy, but they’re used within a progressive, meandering structure that helps everything settle in really nicely. It’s plenty catchy, but not at the expense of any other quality or idea that distinguishes THE ELECTRIC MUD’s style…a super fulfilling, satisfying sound, start to finish.” – Nine Circles
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