Friday, February 7, 2014

GODHUNTER Promotes Disorder With "Snake Oil Dealer" Via Noisey

GODHUNTER Promotes Disorder With "Snake Oil Dealer" Via Noisey
City Of Dust To See Release In Less Than Two Weeks

City Of Dust, the debut full-length release from Arizona's anarcho-sludge faction, GODHUNTER, is now less than two weeks from deliverance, the fifty-minute politically-antagonizing concept album unleashing the band's most musically diverse and lyrically thought-provoking anthems yet.

Killer reactions to City Of Dust are showing up from around the globe, GODHUNTER's gritty but moody blend of harsh crust/punk persuasion to their craft a welcome change of pace from some of the more practiced contemporary deliveries of sludge metal. Among the stoned-out dirges on the ever-morphing tectonic surge of City Of Dust, one of the instant stand-out tracks is the fourth of the album's eight; the venomous "Snake Oil Dealer." Uncoiling over nearly seven and-a-half slow-burning minutes, the agony of the band's tonal crush is soaked with some of the most ethereal Moog-driven atmospherics of the album, in addition bearing some of the members' brutally-honest, confrontational views on their home state's governmental downfalls. The band released a statement on the lyrical basis of the song, aimed at some of the specific politicians, bills and propaganda they feel are deliberately to blame in recent years, some of which has been posted alongside an exclusive listen to the track via Vice Magazine's music channel, Noisey.

Blast "Snake Oil Dealer" at Noisey RIGHT HERE.

Also view the full statement by GODHUNTER on the track at THIS LOCATION.

The first single from City Of Dust, the equally inflamed "Brushfires," was previously released with another testimonial from the band via Decibel HERE.

City Of Dust will see release on February 18th, a cooperative release between Earsplit's label, The Compound, and Godhunter's Battleground Records. Preorders for the CD are available now via Earsplit Distro HERE.

A deluxe 180-gram LP pressing is now under construction and will be available before Summer.GODHUNTER also erected their official website this week at dirtweedmetal.com, and The Compound launched thecompoundrecs.com.

With a barrage of stateside tour actions being prepped for the upcoming months and through the rest of 2014, GODHUNTER are currently notifying all area bandits of their release show for City Of Dust. The shit hits the fans in Tucson on Saturday, February 15th, a FREE SHOW with their bros in Lord Dying and a rack of others, and surely, enough cervezas to flood the Sonoran Desert.

GODHUNTER City Of Dust Record Release Show:
2/15/2014 The Rock - Tucson, AZ w/ Lord Dying, Inoculara, Lariats, Conqueror Worm, Fuzz Evil [info]
  
"There's the unmistakable sludge doom fingerprints over Weedeater or Eyehategod in their DNA, but they lack the former's zoned out weed influence or the latter's nihilistic, drug addled hatred. What Godhunter do have in spades is riffs... City Of Dust is a record by a band coming into their own... Godhunter could become something very special one day, and this is only the beginning." - The Sleeping Shaman

"Tales this morose and despondent need the occasional chaotic implosion, and Godhunter smear a canvas with ugly truth. These eight tracks won't warm your bones. But more importantly, they'll crack open your crusty, sunken eyes. Throw in gigantic riff timber and hickory-smoked rhythmic filth and we're hearing one of 2014's best albums. City of Dust is a structured and informed refusal of acceptance. In the sludge style, we rarely get this much substance." - Heavy Planet

"The singer sounds like he just scraped his throat with hot lava. The guitars are at a level where the amplifiers do no longer smoke but melt. The aggression and overheating is cooled down with beer, loads of beers." - Lords of Metal

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