Out today: CITY OF INDUSTRY - False Flowers

City of Industry's new album, False Flowers, is out today on Amerikan Aesthetics.

Listen and buy, here:

https://cityofindustry.bandcamp.com/album/false-flowers

Stream the music video for the title track, here:

https://cvltnation.com/sweet-poison-revenge-city-of-industry-false-flowers/

From Seattle, WA, City of Industry mix earnest melody, crusty annihilation, and Seattle gloom –– for fans of Ceremony, Dystopia, His Hero Is Gone, Converge, and Pixies. The trio expands its sound into new realms of musicality on False Flowers –– anthemic hardcore is peppered with piano, viola, radio transmissions, and at least one majestic David Gilmour-esque guitar solo. Vocalist Ossa Humiliata pens remarkably poetic lyrics; he names Rainer Maria Rilke and W.H. Auden as inspirations. The album was recorded by Nich Wilbur at The Unknown in Anacortes, WA (Mt. Eerie, Sumac, Angel Olsen); mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Gouge Away).

"City Of Industry’s sound is a wracked, intense take on metallic hardcore; they’re the kind of band that would’ve fit just fine alongside Converge or Integrity on a late-’90s bill. But they’re not fundamentalists, and they also take inspiration from a few generations of scuzzy noise-rock."
–Stereogum

"A Seattle area power trio, City of Industry is as prolific as it is multifaceted. Guitarist and singer Ossa Humiliata pens tunes with a firm foundation of emotional and metallic hardcore, then bends those songs into other related-but-unexpected shapes: cherubic rock akin to early Smashing Pumpkins as well as hyper-melodic squatter anthems as distressed as Dystopia."
–Decibel

"Seductive metallic hardcore... City of Industry’s rage and despair-filled songs feel like they’re opening something in me so that I can see who’s really there and what I’m capable of. This is music that ceases all distractions and demands you feel something."
–CVLT Nation

"City Of Industry... rock your face off."
–Metal Injection

"City of Industry keeps up their furious pace with False Flowers... With a sound that has drawn comparisons to Ceremony, Dystopia, and His Hero is Gone..."

– No Echo

"False Flowers is a multi-faceted release, full of dynamic interplay, varying moods and judicious use of samples to create a deeper listening experience. Yet City of Industry does it all within the framework of punk and hardcore. Heaviness and cathartic emotion abound, and despite the surprising number of elements they incorporate, none of the songs exceed four minutes, and most of them are less than two. It’s a tightrope walk but one the group performs effortlessly. This album expands upon hardcore, without ever leaving it behind."

–Burning Ambulance

"Next to their dynamic and often brutal metallic hardcore, Seattle's City Of Industry have shown their partiality for other genres and aspects of indie rock... Broken Cisterns Hold No Water shows that exact tendency for expansion, and the trio's ability to blend inherent brutality with more emotive ways."
–Destroy//Exist

"The record twists and shakes with fist-pumping fury, and the rich dynamics that City of Industry have incorporated into their work give the album an off-kilter and somewhat demented feeling. City of Industry sound like they’d be exhilarating to see at a live performance, with an avalanche of hoarse emotional energy..."

–Captured Howls

"#27 Best Album of 2020."
–Heaviest of Art