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American black/sludge metal act
IMMORTAL BIRD
will release album
‘Sin Querencia’
engineered & mixed by
Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording
in Chicago, IL in Spring 2024
mastered by Brad Boatright
at Audiosiege
track-list:
Bioluminescent Toxins
Plastered Sainthood
Consanguinity
Propagandized
Ocean Endless
Synthetic Alliances
Contrarian Companions
Sin Querencia
Immortal Bird are:
Rae Amitay (they/them) – vocals, lyrics, keys, synth
Matt Korajczyk (he/him) – drums
Nate Madden (he/him) – guitar
Chicago’s most uniquely harrowing and technically ferocious chaos unit Immortal Bird are back with their highly anticipated third album, ‘Sin Querencia’.
2019’s ‘Thrive on Neglect’ saw the band maneuvering through an amalgam of sounds, blossoming into a warped and angular display of multi-layered anguish, that now serves as a springboard for further expansion on ‘Sin Querencia’.
Abandoning genre constraints, Immortal Bird coherently fuse elements of Death and Black Metal, Hardcore tumult, a dose of their city’s Noise Rock agitation, and a compositional complexity that recalls stalwart boundary-pushers like Gorguts and Ulcerate.
Recording as a 3-piece on ‘Sin Querencia’, guitarist Nate Madden recorded the majority of bass along with multi-instrumentalist bandmates Rae Amitay and Matt Korajczyk.
The trio has evolved their collaboration to forge a cacophonous maelstrom of jagged metal intricacy with a surgical clarity, seeing the combination of Madden on guitar and Korajczyk on drums at its most centered and engaging.
Amitay gives another heart-rending and diverse vocal performance over the frenzied tempest the band lay down, riven with a focused and energized hostility.
They also utilize dulcet and haunting layers of clean vocals on opener ‘Bioluminescent Toxins’ in a quieter moment demonstrating the band’s dynamic abilities and desire to broaden their sonic horizons.
Amitay’s thought-provoking lyrical range weaves through visceral subject matter, threading together allegory and allusion in vehement admonishments of hypocrisy, as well as confronting our brutal complicity and complacency in our current reality.
Featuring cover art by the band’s longtime artist of choice Kikyz1313 and aggressively muscular production from Pete Grossmann of Chicago’s Bricktop Recording, ‘Sin Querencia’ marks a new milestone in Immortal Bird’s now 10+ year history as the band’s most structurally extreme and wide-ranging performance to date.