Pagan Rhythms, the debut full-length by SpiritWorld, is out today.
Stream the album and buy it, here:
https://spiritworldprophet.bandcamp.com/album/pagan-rhythms
SpiritWorld is the work of Las Vegas-based artist, author, songwriter and vocalist, Stu Folsom. Pagan Rhythms is a festival of relentless, apocalyptic hardcore – nine over-the-top tracks, rooted in the warlike sounds of Slayer, Sepultura, and Bolt Thrower, with an undercurrent of Western and Native American themes reflecting Folsom's background. Hatebreed meets Cormac McCarthy...
Folsom states: "My great grandmother was Cherokee... My grandfather was a rodeo cowboy and ranch hand... There was a mix of George Jones, Slayer and 7 Seconds constantly blasting in the family car and I fell in love with all of it... I am making the records that I long to hear and I know they will land somehow in the arms of loners, outcasts and working-class folks like me who need them."
Pagan Rhythms was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Sam Pura (The Story So Far, Self Defense Family) and features drummer extraordinaire Thomas Pridgen (The Mars Volta, Trash Talk) among other players.
More info:
http://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2020/05/spiritworld-pagan-rhythms.html
"SpiritWorld is really just one person, the Vegas doomsayer Stu Folsom, though other musicians, like the former Mars Volta drummer Thomas Pridgen, also play on 'Pagan Rhythms'... It rips so hard. Folsom delivers all of his lyrics in a vast demonic bellow, and the music is a fast pummel that occasionally takes on the grisly grandeur of death metal. There’s also any old-timey country song in there. 'Pagan Rhythms' is one more extremely good reason to bang your head today."
–Stereogum
“Slayer-esque riffs are spat out by razor-sharp guitars that wrap around the listener and constrict like barbed wire; the drums, half of which are by Thomas Pridgen (ex-The Mars Volta), half of which are by Adam Elliott (ex-Apiary), hammer the ears with enough force to destroy solid concrete; Folsom’s vocals sound like they’re the product of a child created by a Max Cavalera/Jamey Jasta hate fuck. There’s also some country-western flavoring, a product of Folsom’s admiration for country singers like George Jones, country-punks like John Doe, and bleak Western storytellers like Cormac McCarthy..."
–MetalSucks
"The ability to dodge spinkicks and backfists in venue-encompassing mosh pits will continue to be vital when SpiritWorld begins playing live more regularly, but that’s only the start of the checklist. Revelers will also require loose neck muscles to headbang freely to the black-metal blast beats and death-metal riffs, air guitars for the cocksure classic-rock swagger and, perhaps most importantly, Stetson hats and boots to match the lyrical content... SpiritWorld takes its name from a line of dialogue in 1988 Billy the Kid-based blockbuster film 'Young Guns,' and the Western influence pervades the material."
–Las Vegas Weekly
"A vicious, whiplash-inducing racket."
–BrooklynVegan
"Hardcore mayhem... this band is RAD!"
–CVLT Nation
"A sandstorm of feverish beats, snaking fork-tongued rhythms, and guttural Cavalera-esque death growls... SpiritWorld’s debut is genuinely relentless and fascinatingly brash."
–New Noise
"Apocalyptic hardcore masterpiece."
–Idioteq
"Heavy hardcore and metal brutality with country-western themes."
–Scene Point Blank
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