Threshold, the new album by Cloud Rat, is out today on Artoffact Records.
Stream the album and buy it, here: https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com/album/threshold
On Threshold, the Michigan trio blasts out a mix of beauty and violence, unlike any other band. Vocalist Madison Marshall's gut-purging screams and drummer Brandon Hill's hyperactive hammering meld with guitarist Rorik Brooks' epic riffs into songs that are equally bone-crushing, heartbreaking, and uplifting. Fans of Discordance Axis, His Hero Is Gone, and My Bloody Valentine will all find some salvation here.
Cloud Rat has put out more than 20 releases so far in its decade-long career. Cloud Rat's Madison Marshall calls Threshold, "the most intense record we have made." Cloud Rat's Rorik Brooks says the album is "our best work so far."
"A caustic metalpunk rager with a truly vicious delivery from vocalist Madison Marshall... Threshold finds time for both celestial post-metal and avant-grind."
–BrooklynVegan"Threshold is a killer album and destined for year-end lists."
–Consequence
"Grindcore trio Cloud Rat have been one of the genre’s most-prolific and willing-to-experiment entities over the last 12 years... Their latest album, Threshold, shows many sides of Cloud Rat, from the hyper-aggression to the more 'melodic' grindcore leanings..."
–Decibel
"The pace and ferocity of grind have always principally informed Cloud Rat’s inimitable music, and they can rage with the best of them. But like their northern peers Fuck the Facts, the Michigan-based band has a strong ability to invest grind’s fuming, fulminating jackhammer sensibility with melody and affective range."
–Dusted
"Emotional and passionate, Threshold represents a personal interpretation of grindcore that thirsts to merge experimental music, thrash metal and melodic punk elements."
"Threshold captures the band's constantly evolving sound and expands on their heavy, fast assault. Definitely recommended for fans of the band and of creative, experimental grind."
–Invisible Oranges
"36 minutes of grind bursting with color... 2022 is the year of grindcore and Cloud Rat is firmly planting its flag as one of the leaders among the crowded pack."
"It’s madness, agony, and catharsis laid out over 15 venomous tracks that will put you to the test but also leave you more battle tested and calloused for your next bout with hell."
–Meat Mead Metal
"If you want some gritty chaos, but you're on a time crunch then the latest from Cloud Rat is the one for you... These songs are explosive, brief, intense, and dense."
"Cloud Rat, the Michigan masters of proggy grind..."
–New Noise
"Incinerating vocals, slashing riffs, and full-throttle drumming... Bleak as well as unhinged."
–No Clean Singing
"Balancing both a keen acumen for writing memorable riffs and melodies with an instinct for total annihilation."
–Treble
"Emotional and passionate, Threshold represents a personal interpretation of grindcore that thirsts to merge experimental music, thrash metal and melodic punk elements."
–Heavy Music HQ
"Threshold captures the band's constantly evolving sound and expands on their heavy, fast assault. Definitely recommended for fans of the band and of creative, experimental grind."
–Invisible Oranges
"36 minutes of grind bursting with color... 2022 is the year of grindcore and Cloud Rat is firmly planting its flag as one of the leaders among the crowded pack."
–Last Rites
"It’s madness, agony, and catharsis laid out over 15 venomous tracks that will put you to the test but also leave you more battle tested and calloused for your next bout with hell."
–Meat Mead Metal
"If you want some gritty chaos, but you're on a time crunch then the latest from Cloud Rat is the one for you... These songs are explosive, brief, intense, and dense."
–Metal Injection
"Threshold is a raging, aggressive slab of fast music that defies easy convention."
–MetalSucks
"Cloud Rat, the Michigan masters of proggy grind..."
–New Noise
"Breakneck riffing, furious d-beat crust meets blast-beat grindcore rhythms and vocalist Madison Marshall’s genuinely terrifying soul-cleansing vocal delivery. It’s punchy, heavy as hell, and full of really good melody."
–Nine Circles
"Incinerating vocals, slashing riffs, and full-throttle drumming... Bleak as well as unhinged."
–No Clean Singing
"Threshold finds Cloud Rat at a moment of evolution. Their identity is set, yet elements of their past are augmented. The technical prowess is expanded, the live feeling is established and slight alterations find their place in the grand scheme. Excellent work indeed."
–PopMatters
–PopMatters
"Cloud Rat understand that grindcore ought to feel like an ordeal: a barrage of detail and velocity that comes at you faster than you have time to process it... It takes a seriously skilled band to make disorientation feel this exhilarating."
–Spin
"This band constantly delivers on full throttle aggression; while the band does present moody and droning atmospheres throughout their material, Cloud Rat is a band that has you gripped from the start."
–The Pit
"Balancing both a keen acumen for writing memorable riffs and melodies with an instinct for total annihilation."
–Treble
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