Iron Lung have introduced their first full-length album in 12 years, Adapting // Crawling, out April 18th by way of the band’s personal Iron Lung Information.
The one “Lifeless Life” has additionally been launched. The 52-second observe is a bleak and short-winded blast of hardcore, juggling anxious bouts of thrash with instrumental dropouts. It’s in these gaps the place the duo inserts the vocal chorus, shouted from the angle of somebody trapped in a windowless hospital room: “We wish out!”
The remainder of the 18-song album follows equally weighty themes — “despair, a failed healthcare system, heavy grief from a number of pals/household deaths, paranoia and mistrust of presidency, meaningless existence and loss,” per the band’s press launch. Whereas it marks the primary correct LP from Iron Lung since 2013, the duo of Jensen Ward (drums/vocals) and Jon Kortland (guitar/vocals) have remained energetic all through these years, releasing three EPs in that span and a one-off single final yr.
In tandem with the brand new album, Iron Lung are additionally presenting their very own competition, What We Like fest, a three-day gathering set for April 18th via the twentieth in Seattle. The lineup contains 26 bands, most related to Iron Lung Information. Extra info will be discovered at this location.
You’ll be able to pre-order Adapting // Crawling on vinyl by way of Bandcamp. Stream “Lifeless Life” under.
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Adapting // Crawling Tracklist:
01. Adapting
02. Inner Monologue
03. Lifeless Life
04. Shift Work
05. Poisoned Sand
06. Every little thing is a Void (Album Model)
07. A Veiled Eye
08. Good Ending
09. A Loving Act
10. Purgatory Mud
11. Virus
12. Purgatory Mud (Finale)
13. Acres of Pores and skin
14. Hospital Tile
15. Cog II
16. HeLa Cells
17. Failure
18. Survived By…