Friday, October 14, 2022

Out today: VIRGIN MOTHER - Mourning Ritual


VIRGIN MOTHER: meth. frontman Seb Alvarez releases debut full-length today – "screaming grinding shoegaze with fits of post rock melody"

Mourning Ritual, the new album by Virgin Mother, is out today.




Virgin Mother is the solo project of Seb Alvarez, known to many as the vocalist of Chicago band meth. Moody, murky, haunting, thunderous – Virgin Mother's astounding debut album is a fever-dream existing somewhere between Sonic Youth's blissful devastation, Xiu Xiu's cracked vulnerability, and Converge's metallic punk.

Alvarez speaks candidly about the origins of the Virgin Mother project: “I had been admitted to a mental hospital at the beginning of quarantine and diagnosed as bipolar. Before that I hadn't gone more than five days without drinking, since I was 20… It was a super dark time for me."

A US tour with Nerver kicks off next week.

10/19 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
10/22 Iowa City, IA @ Hill Haus
10/23 Detroit, MI @ The Russell Industrial Center
10/24 Toronto, ON @ Handlebar
10/25 Potsdam, NY @ SLC Arts
10/26 Providence, RI @ Focal
10/27 Brooklyn, NY @ Kingsland
10/28 Philadelphia, PA @ The Meadow
10/29 Baltimore, MD @ House Show
10/30 Youngstown, OH @ Westside Bowl
10/31 Indianapolis, IN @ The New Lot

“Muscular noise rock that possesses a hypnotic swagger and seethes with intensity. This sounds like a monster with a thousand yard stare.”
–No Echo

"Cacophonous, intense and brutal noise rock... An overall sense of menace. It’s awesome and harsh all at once."
–Treble

"Sludgy, noisy ragers."
–BrooklynVegan

“Haunting... A heavily layered and brutally warped assault against the senses.”
–Flood

"A noise rock fever-dream."
–New Noise

"A catchy, discordant mess... Screaming grinding shoegaze with fits of post rock melody."
–Metal Epidemic

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