Rising English rock trio TORUS drops their critically acclaimed eponymous debut today via MNRK/Inside Job. The record focuses on the trials and tribulations of growing from your teens to your 20s; love, loss, and feeling fucking weird. The album addresses issues such as paranoia (“Crash Wave”), mental health (“Downfall”), addiction (“Speed Trial”), and a good old-fashioned break-up song (This Feeling).
Following previous singles, “This Feeling,” “When It Comes,” and “Into The Clear,” which was featured on BBC Radio 1’s Alyx Holcombe’s Introducing Rock show, Kerrang Radio, and Radio X’s playlists, Kerrang’s Tracks Of The Week, and “Avalanche,” which instantly compelled audiences as TORUS’ most adored track, (over 300K streams and 100K monthly listeners on Spotify to date) the band announced their self-titled debut album, working with much-loved producer Thomas Mitchener (Frank Carter/Gallows, The Damned, Wargasm, Noahfinnce) and mastering engineer Grant Berry (All Time Low, Hot Milk, Busted).
Comments vocalist/guitarist Alfie Glass “The sound of TORUS is one that we aim to take simple, catchy hooks with good songwriting at their heart, and then make them heavy. I think TORUS is the best version and clearest realization of that aim that we’ve ever achieved.”
TORUS’ every move to date has been met with intrigue and acclaim – ahead of the lauded debut EP Sail, key tastemakers in the shape of Kerrang! and Classic Rock were championing their “brand of zero-bullshit hard rock” that delivers “gargantuan riffs and thick, monstrous grooves” in the vein of rock greats such as Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Smashing Pumpkins. Indeed, if the name Alfie Glass sounds even more familiar to you, it’s probably because Black Sabbath guitar legend Tony Iommi was praising the six-stringer’s chops on TV talent show Guitar Star when Glass was just twelve years old.
Having started life as a one-man bedroom project, TORUS’ lineup would soon be completed by bassist Harry Quinn in 2020 and, later, drummer Jack Orr in early 2022, the trio coalescing around a shared desire to create music that could bang heads while moving feet, despite their differing musical backgrounds and influences that touch on everything from desert rock to psychedelic prog and punk. “We all come from different places but have a shared vision for the music we want to write,” Orr notes.
Their rapid, dizzying ascent has not come without its challenges, however, and TORUS’ aptly self-titled debut album stands as a document of and testament to surviving a time so trying that it would have broken up many lesser bands – a “rollercoaster of emotions and struggles from a year which had many ups and downs and the mental battle of trying to work it all out whilst feeling isolated and disconnected to things close to you,” as the trio put it themselves.
Stream/purchase TORUS’ eponymous debut album at THIS LOCATION.
Torus Track Listing:
1. Avalanche
2. Into The Clear
3. When It Comes
4. All On Me
5. The Overload
6. Downfall
7. Crash Wave
8. This Feeling
9. Undercover
10. Gone
11. Back To Life
12. Speed Trial
“Gargantuan riffs and thick, monstrous grooves” – Classic Rock
“Anthemic” – Kerrang!
“They’re so fucking good!” – Steve Gullick (Photographer, Nirvana, The Mysterines)
TORUS:
Alfie Glass – vocals, guitar
Harry Quinn – bass, vocals
Jack Orr – drums
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