At this point, just about anything Tom Peters touches is going to sound incredible – you’ve heard his work with Bicurious and Alpha Male Tea Party, and one of our favorite bands that’s worked with him in the past few years is Iran, Iran.
They’ve got a phenomenal sense of aural scale thanks to spleen-rattling bass lines and song structures will appeal as much to math rock and prog enthusiasts as it will orcs, werewolves, and other cryptids creatures. Which we mean as a compliment, of course.
The band just released a bonkers new single called “Shinzo Abe Lego Gun,” which you can stream below:
We can’t imagine a lego gun going off as hard as this, but times are scary, it could probably happen. In fact, there’s even some awareness of this to be gleamed from the track’s frenetic delivery. Stepping on those damn things is hard enough, but we think it’s a metaphor. Anyway, we love how the single almost blows through the low end of the speakers like an instrumental nu-metal or groove metal track from the old days, taking us back the days of Tool and Chevelle airwave supremacy without going radio-friendly. Not that we’d mind hearing this on the radio – you know, if listening to the radio were a thing we still did.
Here’s more from the press release they sent us:
“We used to say none of these songs were about anything. We’ve gotten a bit older, a bit more outraged about a lot of things, and a lot heavier. The tunes on Dog Tramadol go harder than anything we’ve recorded. They’re not really tunes. They’re a collection of feelings. Someone died, and we felt like zoning out in the throbbing intervals of a doom dirge—like Pruitt Taylor Vince in The Devil’s Candy (look it up, you’ll get the idea), and Dog Tramadol was born. We were on painkillers because bodies break down, you can kick that out the door with savage sludge riff mutating into ever longer elaborations on the phrase “THAT FUCKING HURTS”—and you come out the other end of The Terrorist Days of the Week. We watched the news, we watched very horrible things happen to very innocent people. We got angry. We let it out, blasting from the barrel of a Shinzo Abe Lego Gun, because sometimes someone has to pay. We’re still stupid bastards of course, so you get a second serving of math nonsense called Re-Tracked Crack Panic Attack, because it’s not all bad. These tunes are about a bunch of things.”
However you want to listen to it, why ever you’d listen to it (why wouldn’t you?!), you should, because from the sound of the single, Dog Tramodol is going to rip, shred, and spank, all at the same time – but with new levels of heart and intention. Again, with production from Trapdoor Studios’ Tom Peterson and the mastering from Stephen Kerrison of Weird Jungle Mastering, it’s sort of a given this is going to be stellar, and hopefully it’s out soon. We’ll take what we can get in the meantime, and we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
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