“It’s been four years and two albums… and the group’s classic Sub Pop meets AmRep noise rock (with a touch of classic heavy metal thrown into the mix) has built up into a lean and mean beast of an operation.” — No Echo

Chicago noise rock trio SALVATION will release their third full-length, Year Of The Fly, next month via Forge Again Records.

 

SALVATION have always been experts at hammering out no frills, no nonsense, no bullshit noise rock, and on their brand-new Year Of The Fly, they’ve perfected their take on the genre, sounding cleaner, meaner, and bigger than ever before.

 

Initially the solo project of vocalist and guitarist Jason Sipe in St. Louis, SALVATION became the trio it is today four years ago when Sipe moved to Chicago and linked up with a pair of punk and hardcore stalwarts: bassist Victor Riley and drummer Santiago Guerrero. Combining the relentless rhythms of Melvins with the fried melodic sense of Bleach-era Nirvana, SALVATION explodes like a deranged blast from the past, still sounding fresh and exciting, no matter how indebted to the glory days of noise rock they are.

 

For Year Of The Fly, the band hunkered down with engineer Mike Lust at legendary Chicago studio Electrical Audio. They had three days, a roll of two-inch tape, and a batch of killer cuts. In the past, the band had recorded every aspect of their songs live in the studio, with no extra time to fuss or overthink, but this time the approach was slightly different: the album’s nasty, aggressive base tracks were laid down live, and they later took time to overdub vocals, pianos, organ, and other artistic embellishments. Mastered by by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering, the result is a beautifully raw recording rife with crushing noise punk that takes sudden turns into unexpected but welcome heady realms. Opening with the brutal grind of “Slit My Throat,” the album soon unfolds into territory the band hasn’t touched on before, like the damaged, pensive, acoustic cut “Failure,” and the spooky, minimal organ drones of album closer “Delusions Of Grandeur.” An expanded sonic palette aside, Year Of The Fly is undeniably a smasher front-to-back, the sound of a band at the height of its power.

 

Issues Forge Again of the band’s first single, “Slit My Throat,” “Side one, track one is where any album worth a damn reveals its hand. Like The Jesus Lizard’s ‘Boilermaker’ or Black Sabbath’s ‘Black Sabbath,’ ‘Slit My Throat’ is the perfect encapsulation of what you are going to get from SALVATION‘s Year Of The Fly. Opening with a sludgy bassline, it soon ascends into a full-on aural assault with a pounding rhythm section, damaging guitars, and guttural vocals that are truly representative of what SALVATION brings to the table.”

 

Year Of The Fly will be released on November 22nd on CD, LP, and digital formats. For preorders visit the Forge Again Records site at THIS LOCATION or Bandcamp HERE.

 

SALVATION will quake stages through the Northeast and Midwest over the coming weeks including a special record release show at Empty Bottle November 27th. See all confirmed dates below.

 

SALVATION Live:

11/13/2019 Brillo Box – Pittsburgh, PA w/ T-Topes, TRVSS

11/14/2019 The Century – Philadelphia, PA w/ PLOT

11/15/2019 Econo Lounge – New York, NY w/ BbigPigg

11/16/2019 Mercury Theater – Baltimore, MD w/ Ozmo, Blissinger

11/17/2019 Café Bourbon Street – Columbus, OH w/ Ope, ASK

11/27/2019 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL Record Release Show w/ Luggage, No Men, Ganser

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