BUÑUEL, a literal supergroup of global significance, shares “American Steel,” the 4th single made available from the upcoming double album Mansuetude (SKiN GRAFT/Overdrive).

BUNUEL’s singer and lyricist, Eugene S. Robinson is nothing if not a documentarian of a certain kind of power madness. This is best exemplified by “American Steel,” a song that pays tribute to one of the single things that most enlarged American coffers while at the same time drawing the most and worst kind of blood. Tanks, big bore hemis, assault weapons and the Harley’s they rode in on. Fiction? Not here they’re not. “American Steel” features guitarist Duane Denison (the Jesus Lizard, Tomahawk, The Denison/Kimball Trio), who shares: “Eugene Robinson’s vocals have the effect of listening to a desperately flailing drowning man, and my guitar serves as a malfunctioning floatation device–it never quite makes it long enough to provide actual safety.”

The digital version of Mansuetude will be available on October 25, 2024, while the release date for the physical version has been moved back to November 15, 2024. Also highlighted today is a retail exclusive “Primeval Green” colored vinyl variant edition, which will only be available from participating retailers. The “Primeval Green” edition joins the general release “Hard Smoked” colored vinyl offering. Both variations will be packaged inside a gatefold vinyl sleeve, include a poster-lyric sheet, a wraparound “Footlong” Obi and are topped off by side four’s etched vinyl disc. Mansuetude will also be available on CD and cassette.

Mansuetude was produced by Timo Ellis, and boasts the singular vocals and razor-sharp lyrics of Eugene S. Robinson (ex-OXBOW) and a powerhouse Italian trio comprising guitarist Xabier  Iriondo (AFTERHOURS, A SHORT APNEA), drummer Franz Valente (IL TEATRO DEGLI ORRORI) and bassist Andrea Lombardini (The FRAMERS). The album features additional guests including  Jacob Bannon (lead singer of CONVERGE), vocalist Megan Osztrosits (of COUCH SLUT), cellist  Andrea Beninati, and David Binney on alto saxophone and vocals.

Eugene S. Robinson and Franz Valente both recently appeared on Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal Music Podcast to discuss their “Fantastic…coming-for-blood, mission statement sort of record” and Eugene S. Robinson did a colorful deep dive with longtime friend and SAL MINEO collaborator Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) for Talkhouse about their new albums, recent memoirs and much, much more that may have you gasping and clutching your pearls!

“American Steel” follows the single “Class” from earlier this month, about which Eugene S. Robinson commented: “America is schizophrenic about class and class attributes. On the one hand we claim it doesn’t exist here, on the other hand like Paul Fussell lays out in his book on class it works its way through every aspect of American life and living. The song itself eviscerates the notion by placing it where it most needs to be placed: in the iD fuelled underworld.“

September’s single “Fixer” features vocals from Megan Osztrosits of COUCH SLUT. “Following a Breaking Bad trajectory and owing this account largely to a friend of his who had been called The Crystal Meth King of Oklahoma by the FBI, the FIXER follows a drug czar’s Man Friday as he cleans up that which inevitably needs cleaning up when you’re living a life of crime,” shares the band. According to Megan Osztrosits: “When Eugene hit me up to ask if I wanted to do vocals for a track, I said yes without even hearing it. He rules and I am psyched for this absolute ripper of an album.” The song was named one of Brooklyn Vegan’s favorite songs of the week upon its release, who called it “a gnarly, heavy song,” remarking that “anyone missing Oxbow should make sure they’re not sleeping on this.” “Fixer” was also covered by Metal Hammer, who said: “Treading a line between quirky weirdness and all-out ear-splitting abjection, Buñuel’s latest single ‘Fixer’ also sees the group draft in Megan Osztrosits for an extra dimension of howling force. But then, what else could you expect from the new band from former Oxbow man Eugene S. Robinson? His new group carry the torch for the maverick spirit that has been Robinson’s calling card for over 30 years, somehow finding ways to slip insidious hooks amidst the shrieks.