COBALT: New Song Posted Online

March 13, 2009

Colorado-based avant-garde extreme metal outfit COBALT has posted a new song, "Pregnant Insect", at this location. The track comes off the band's new album, "Gin", which is scheduled for release on March 17 via Profound Lore Records. The follow-up to 2007's "Eater of Birds" sees COBALT "forge a markedly darker and rougher edged path, carving out a surreal outburst of intense sound that pushes American underground metal into new and uncharted realms," according to a press release. "A veritable cornucopia of post-apocalyptic riffing, tribal battle rhythms and cadaverous atmosphere, the album builds upon a framework of subject matter that has both physically and emotionally affected its creators, touching on all too real themes of violence, death, despair and destruction. With its ill tempered spirit and depth of substance, 'Gin' is an opus that comes off as the diseased, outcast cousin to output from weighty acts such as SWANS, NEUROSIS, KILLING JOKE and NACHTMYSTIUM (the band to whom the act is most commonly juxtaposed)."

Recorded at Colorado's Flatline Audio Studios with producer Dave Otero, "Gin" is a coal black monolith of nihilism that seethes with intensity. COBALT members Erik Wunder (who doubles as Jarboe's touring drummer) and Phil McSorley (currently deployed in Iraq) have dedicated "Gin" to the writings of literary masters Ernest Hemingway and Hunter S. Thompson. The album once again features a guest appearance from Jarboe as the ex-SWANS chanteuse contributes otherworldly vocals to the twisted tracks "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" and "Pregnant Insect".

"Gin" track listing:

01. Gin
02. Dry Body
03. Arsonry
04. Throat
05. Stomach
06. A Clean, Well Lighted Place
07. Pregnant Insect
08. Two Thumbed Fist
09. The Old Man Who Lied His Entire Life
10. A Starved Horror

When asked to comment on "Pregnant Insect", Wunder stated, "It's the most punk song on the album, but it also shifts into one of the more experimental rhythmic patterns during the second half of the song. It also marks Jarboe's most powerful appearance on any COBALT song to date."

The song "Arsonry" is available for download at this location.

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