Netherlands' new album Black Gaia is out today on Records And Tapes Records.
Listen and buy, here:
https://thenetherlands1.bandcamp.com/album/black-gaia
Watch the video for Black Gaia track "Army!" here:
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/see-goth-sign-language-interpreter-throw-down-dancers-new-netherlands-video
Mastodon handpicked Netherlands to join them on their upcoming September tour with Dinosaur Jr and it is a perfect match. Netherlands' style, honed to excellence in the years since its beginnings in 2010, is a wild-eyed, metallic version of rock. Black Gaia finds the band at the pinnacle of its very own mountain – a place of lurching grooves, psychedelic lava-spewing, and sugary hooks that infect the ears. Rabid-ape drums, plate-shifting synthbass, kaleidoscopic guitar, and transcendent vocals (a range from gentle falsetto to soaring howl) converge in a singular psych-prog-sludge-pop sound sharing DNA with The Beach Boys, Earth Wind and Fire, Van Halen, Dio, The Melvins, The Boredoms, Torche, and Mutoid Man.
Frontman Timo Ellis gives this description of Black Gaia's message: "The record is a scream of anger and grief, and maybe a call-to-arms to do whatever it takes to avert the coming civilization-collapsing environmental mega-catastrophe."
Mastodon, Dinosaur Jr, Netherlands:
Sep 1 - Edmonton, AB @ Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
Sep 2 - Calgary, AB @ Grey Eagle Resort & Casino
Sep 4 - Saskatoon, SK @ O'Brian's Event Centre
Sep 6 - Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
Sep 7 - Duluth, MN @ Duluth Heritage Center
Sep 8 - Sioux City, IA @ Anthem @ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Sep 11 - Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
Sep 12 - Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
Sep 14 - Fort Wayne, IN @ Clyde Theatre
Sep 15 - Gran Rapids, MI @ 20 Monroe Live
Sep 16 - London, ON @ London Concert Theatre
Sep 17 - Kitchener, ON @ Elements
Sep 19 - Hamilton, ON @ FirstOntario Concert Hall
Sep 20 - Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theatre
Sep 21 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
"Netherlands have been quietly weaving themselves into the fabric of popular metal culture for a decade now... Their continued dedication for making experimental, genre-bending albums paid off in the form of being hand-selected by prog metal giants Mastodon to fill the opening slot on their upcoming tour with Dinosaur Jr."
–Revolver
"Tones from the synths, guitars, and vocals mingle in such a way that’s almost trance-inducing, leaving your mind in a perpetual state of wubwubwubwaaaaahhhhh long after the song’s ended... Netherlands have been able to craft an aesthetic that draws from genres all over the board: psych rock, punk, sludge, doom, and even hints of pop."
–MetalSucks
"A kind of poppy sludge that takes Torche and feeds it through a grinder, belching it out some sort of neon pink, noxious and incredibly groovy weirdness from the other side"
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy
"Rollicking, heavy-rock purveyors Netherlands... Adroit musicality and pummelling your ears..."
–Pure Grain Audio
"Black Gaia is full of what I’ve come to fucking love about Netherlands, tight songs, layered with goose-bump inducing harmonies and fun, interesting lyrics all propelled by a low end groove fuzzier and heavier than a rampaging Kaiju caterpillar."
–Svbterranean
"[Black Gaia] pulls in all their legendary psychedelic freak outs, melodic poppy hooks, bottom heavy bombast and the knack for ridiculously catchy songwriting into a MOUNTAIN of a successful album."
–Nine Circles
"A maximalist approach that follows Ellis’ personal mission statement of making music that can be equally light-hearted, brutal and ecstatic... The album will further cement the band’s reputation for crafting pummeling and furious material centered around equally enormous power chords and arena rock friendly hooks, distorted synthbass and Ellis’s shouting politically charged lyrics, lambasting rampant commercialism and greed... One for the most explosive and forceful rippers I’ve heard all year, and it’s so fucking necessary."
–The Joy of Violent Movement
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