Spiritual West, the new album by City of Industry, is out today.
Stream the album, here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2022/11/10/full-album-stream-city-of-industry-spiritual-west/
Buy the LP via No Funeral Records: https://store.nofuneral.ca/product/city-of-industry-spiritual-west-vinyl
Buy the cassette and CD via Modern Grievance: https://cityofindustry.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-west
The Seattle trio's moody, metallic, hardcore punk drives forward, laced with morose melodies, drenched in Pacific Northwest rain, calling to mind the sheer urgency of Converge or Show Me the Body. Frontman John Caraveo’s vocals are as honest and wounded as it gets. As a musical unit the band plays by no one’s rules, layering its sound with ambient passages, samples, church bells, and whatever else it pleases.
The album was recorded by Nich Wilbur (Mt. Eerie, Sumac); mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Gouge Away).
A West Coast tour is now underway.
Nov 11 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Hideaway
Nov 12 – Eugene, OR @ John Henry’s
Nov 13 – Eureka, CA @ Siren’s Song
Nov 15 – Oakland, CA @ Stay Gold
Nov 17 – Fresno, CA @ TBA
Nov 18 – Santa Fe Springs, CA @ Unmodern
"Spiritual West plays out as a whole sonic tapestry, with eerie synth-drones and ghostly samples helping the transitions from one deliriously intense track to the next. Parts of the album take clear influence from screamo or metal, but I’m not sure the end result belongs to any particular scene or genre."
–Stereogum
"City of Industry delve into all kinds of sounds and musical approaches on their third album. Integrated into its metallic rage are elements of noise rock, ambient/industrial, post-metal, melancholy goth. The band easily moves from savage blasts to melodic guitar skree through the 10 tracks, all while Caraveo screams his guts out...The trio defiantly shows it doesn’t follow a well-worn path.”
–Decibel
"City of Industry are a dark, heavy, boundary-pushing post-hardcore band from Seattle, and their new LP Spiritual West covers a lot of very appealing ground."
–BrooklynVegan
"With a sound that would have them fit on a live bill with everyone from Converge to Assück to Deafheaven, City of Industry is keeping their impressive pace up with the release of their fourth full-length album, Spiritual West."
–No Echo
"With Spiritual West, the Seattle trio continues to deliver their dark and harrowing take on modern hardcore... All in all, City of Industry display great growth. They have focused and compressed the anthemic aspects of Conspire Conspire Conspire, and have swapped out the clean passages found throughout False Flowers for the darker, ambient recitals."
–PopMatters
"Panicked vocals and pounding instrumentation... Ambient unease."
–Flood
"The new offering cranks up the intensity further... Intriguing and exhausting in equal measure, an unrelenting, chaotic, yet eclectic work driven forward by ambitious instrumentation. It shows the band’s extraordinary craft in the niche of out-of-the-box bleak hardcore."
–Idioteq
"City of Industry push their refined brand of metallic hardcore with vigorous and intense momentum. The trio’s volatile sound contains elements of pure, compelling, and raw material that creates a destructive and near-apocalyptic sense of bleakness."
–Metal Epidemic
"Violent dynamism which is expertly produced and shows the band's existential anxiety, together with their obvious individuality."
–Destroy Exist
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