Old Wounds will release its second full-length album: The Suffering Spirit, June 30 release on Good Fight Music.
Stream opening track, “Rest in Piss,” via BrooklynVegan, here.
The New Jersey band has been on the DIY warpath since the 2013 release of debut album From Where We Came Is Where We’ll Rest. Touring nonstop with Cult Leader, Full of Hell, The Banner, Exalt, and more, and releasing music via various splits and EPs, all the work of the past two years has led to The Suffering Spirit, a new, thrilling slab of art that sounds simply massive.
Old Wounds’ alliance with Good Fight Music began officially last fall with the Death Projection EP, which earned these words from Pitchfork: “Emotionally charged, stylistically diverse metalcore, refreshingly devoid of the sugary melodies and bone-dumb breakdowns that propagate so freely within the mainstream hardcore scene… It’s a furious – and meticulous – piece of work.” That four-song record hinted at greatness to come but it was still the work of a scrappy young band; with The Suffering Spirit, this band has advanced to another plane.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Andreas Magnusson (The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon), the sound is warm, clear, and monstrous.
Catch the band live here:
Jun 27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ask a Punk
Jun 28 – North Haven, CT @ Up All Night Collective
Jun 29 – Richmond, VA @ The Haunted Mansion
Jun 30 – Baltimore, MD @ Charm City Art Space
Jul 1 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Roboto Project
Jul 2 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes
Jul 3 – Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus