MINSK: Long-Running Sound Alchemists To Release First Full-Length In Six Years This Spring Via Relapse Records
Following a six-year slumber, Illinois enigmatic sound conjurors, MINSK, are readying to unveil the otherworldly fruit of their long-anticipated new studio creation, The Crash & The Draw.
Scattered between the sleepy city of Peoria and metropolis of Chicago and drawing inspiration from a remote Belarusian city that has been burned to the ground only to be rebuilt like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, MINSK
has been cultivating sonic exploration and alchemical outpourings since
2002. Rooted in the post-metal landscape that brought forth visionaries
like Neurosis and Isis, with their latest offering, The Crash & The Draw, MINSK
step out of the shadows of the giants of their genre to create a
psychedelic blend of melodic, trance-inducing heaviness. Recorded almost
exclusively in The Prairie State, The Crash & The Draw was
captured by the band alongside Sanford Parker (Twilight, Voivod,
Eyehategod, Yob etc.) at Earth Analog in Tolono, mixed by Parker and MINSK
at Hypercube in Chicago and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod,
Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod etc.) at The Boiler Room in Chicago with
additional vocal tracking by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Old Man
Gloom, Floor etc.) at Antisleep Audio in Oakland, California and further
tracking, editing, and mixing by Kevin Rendleman at Trash Rocket Audio
and Aaron Austin at We Know Who You Are, both in Peoria. The record
includes the striking cover creation of Orion Landau (Yob, Inter Arma, Red Fang etc.).
An instant contender for one of the most forward-thinking metal records of the year, The Crash & The Draw
is a thematic continuation of the group's long standing fascination
with alchemical and esoteric ideologies, with marked nods toward the
thought and writings of perennial inspiration, Kahlil Gibran, and the
espoused words of Hermes Trismegistus, the fabled author of the Corpus
Hermeticum and other sacred texts. The album boasts eleven arresting
movements that transcend the confines of post-metal, sludge and
psychedelia. A crucial sonic passage through dark and light that's at
once crushing, hallucinatory and at times, spiritually illuminating,
tracks ebb and flow with a pastoral elegance and tangible urgency. A
fitting audio soundscapade for those souls devoted to the manifestations
of Neurosis, Rwake, Yob, Isis and the like.
The Crash & The Draw Track Listing:
1. To The Initiate
2. Within And Without
3. Onward Procession I. These Longest Of Days
4. Onward Procession II. The Soil Calls
5. Onward Procession III. The Blue Hour
6. Onward Procession IV. Return, The Heir
7. Conjunction
8. The Way Is Through
9. To You There Is No End
10. To The Garish Remembrance Of Failure
11. When The Walls Fell
The Crash & The Draw
will be released via Relapse Records in North America on April 7th,
2015, April 3rd, 2015 in Germany, Benelux and Finland and April 6th,
2015 in the UK and rest of the world and
will
come available on CD, double LP and digitally. Further info including
track teasers and preorder links to be unveiled in the coming weeks.
MINSK:
Aaron Austin - guitar, vocals
Christopher Bennett - guitar, vocals
Zachary Livingston - bass, vocals
Timothy Mead - vocals, keyboards
Kevin Rendleman - drums
"If there's ever a decent remake of Dune, I look forward to MINSK soundtracking a sandworm attack." - Decibel
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