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The time has finally cum for all of us listeners of musical atrocities to feast our ears on some new excruciating madness: aggressive noise tormentors Concrete Winds have announced that their third album - self-titled, as to crush our faces twice already to begin with - will be out on August 30th, 2024 in conspiracy once again with Sepulchral Voice Records!
The first track premiere, "Infernal Repeater", can be streamed here below and on all major streaming platforms: prepare your ear canals to be completely ravaged then get your headphones on, or turn whatever you're using to the loudest volume and hit play for that massive outburst of caustic hatred that Concrete Winds here deliver not only as expected, but possibly even harsher than before. Everything, from the production to the ripping speed, the ferocity of the vocals and the vicious sound of the guitar - which brutally sandpapers the hell out of our ears - everything here feels even heavier, more savage and perverse then ever before.
And look at that cover artwork, it demands blood, it knows it's going to crush bones, it wants the listeners to smash their faces on it. And for the sake of our screwed up minds that is probably what we are all going to do when the music starts.
Sepulchral Voice Records has introduced the third abomination by Concrete Winds with these words:
"To all death metal lunatics and black metal psychopaths left out there in this toothless and tamed scene, let us proclaim the word! CONCRETE WINDS are back to push spikes, needles, and barbed wire into your flesh and ears.
Once again, the noise aggressors slit the veil from beyond and step into our world to pillage and hound to death all what was known, predictable, and comfortable in metal music. Their third album is self-titled for mandatory reasons and shows the band furthermore exploring the EXTREME in extreme metal. This truly is rabies set to music!
While their debut, 2019's Primitive Force, was a beacon of strife in stretching and redefining the boundaries of unholy, grinding death metal, the successor, 2021's Nerve Butcherer, pushed the limits even harder and set new standards in the world of audial bulldozing destruction and blitzin' torment.
With Concrete Winds, the band now open wide again the portals to the abattoir and continue right where Nerve Butcherer had left the listener helplessly in a sonic wasteland of scorched earth, barren soil, and sheer darkness. They manifest their will to tear the listeners' drumheads out and to creep deep into souls black. As expected, the album is rooted in outrageous speed, heaviest trembling rhythm passages, abysmal croaked curses, turbulent breaks, and repulsive shrieking leads which let you drown in a maelstrom of insanity. But this time, new layers are also added to the pandemonic universe, as weird staccato riffing sections bleed into witching industrial scenarios.
CONCRETE WINDS have always gone further than any recent extreme metal outfit and leave out everything that's established in music, cut off what became comfortable in metal, and blow away what still feels "appropriate" in extreme metal. It seems that this once-urgent attitude to explore limits finally has a new helmsman. Nevertheless, they stay ever loyal to the elder originators of bloody metal mayhem, but evolve those inspirations taken from masters like Morbid Angel, Necrovore, and Repulsion to a very unique and nearly "reference-less" hellwitchin’ sound.
No less than Lawrence Mackrory - with the help of Matti Mäkelä - recorded, mixed, and mastered this cacophonic eruption mostly at Rorysounds Studios in Uppsala, Sweden. All of it is bound together in nine signature two-word-titled songs that altogether does not exceed the 27-minute mark. Calculators may wrongly estimate it as "short," but measured in CW units, it has the perfect length to die a thousand deaths.
CONCRETE WINDS have never been for the faint-hearted. They always killed any scent of entertaining characters straight from the seed. It's easy not to understand them; it's easy not to comprehend them; it's easy not to love them. But it should not be easy to confuse entertainment with art: true art must hurt.
However, this is CONCRETE fucking WINDS' third album! And it will definitely not leave anyone untouched, no matter in which way - PERIOD. ".
The tracklist appears to be as follows:
01. "Permanent Dissonance"
02. "Virulent Glow"
03. "Daylight Amputations"
04. "Infernal Repeater"
05. "Subterranean Persuasion"
06. "Hell Trance"
07. "Systematic Distortion"
08. "Demented Gospels"
09. "Pounding Devotion"
Pre-orders can already be placed for the vinyl, CD and music cassette edition of the album as well as for the official album t-shirt on High Roller Records, digital edition can be pre-ordered on Concrete Winds' official Bandcamp. We all know by now what to do with that pre-order button: SPARE IT NOT!
Official Concrete Winds links: Facebook - Bandcamp - Merch & Records: High Roller Records
Concrete Winds' upcoming live dates in the Partake section of this website.