Stream the album and buy it, here: https://carbomb.bandcamp.com/album/tiles-whisper-dreams-ep
Car Bomb's first new material since 2019, Tiles Whisper Dreams marks the New York band's 25th year in existence. Spiraling flurries of rhythm and texture congeal, fleetingly, into planet-pulverizing death-grooves and fragments of haunting melodies. Baffling rhythmic modulations and deep-space guitar effects appear to warp time completely. Disorientation is the rule, not the exception. A quarter-century into its career, Car Bomb remains in a league of its own. In the words of Anthony Fantano (The Needle Drop): "The band is ultra creative and mind-blowingly, technically proficient, to pull off something of this magnitude... Car Bomb, in my opinion, has never sounded so good."
With the new EP out now, Car Bomb will tour the UK and Europe, including dates with Between The Buried And Me and Imperial Triumphant. (Sadly, an upcoming Australian tour with Animals As Leaders was cancelled due to an injury in the AAL camp.) Tourdates and complete album details are here: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2025/06/car-bomb-tiles-whisper-dreams.html
"Mathcore nerds, rejoice: the Brooklyn heavyweights have returned with their first new music six years."
–Bandcamp Daily
"Extreme... Chaotic."
–BrooklynVegan
"No one can write a song as extreme as Car Bomb. That’s because no other band can sound like them. In case there was a need to put that beyond a shadow of a doubt, their brand new EP, Tiles Whisper Dreams, is likely the most intense 12 minutes of music you’ll hear all year."
"Mathcore nerds, rejoice: the Brooklyn heavyweights have returned with their first new music six years."
–Bandcamp Daily
"Extreme... Chaotic."
–BrooklynVegan
"No one can write a song as extreme as Car Bomb. That’s because no other band can sound like them. In case there was a need to put that beyond a shadow of a doubt, their brand new EP, Tiles Whisper Dreams, is likely the most intense 12 minutes of music you’ll hear all year."
–Crunchyroll
"Together now twenty-five years as a band, to describe the New York band Car Bomb in one simple moniker is impossible. The foundation may be mathcore, but you need to add everything from progressive to death groove elements..."
–Dead Rhetoric
"Frenetic, progressive-death-metal-meets-mathcore... [Tiles Whisper Dreams] is an impressive, albeit brief, continuation of Car Bomb‘s singular sound and career."
–Everything Is Noise
"Mathematical, metallic, incomprehensible music has made some serious headway since 2019, and with so many young bands pushing the envelope it’s incredible to hear generation-spanning bands like Car Bomb... continue to hone their great experiments."
–Fecking Bahamas
"A savage and uncompromising short-form release, Tiles Whisper Dreams bristles and seethes with all the elements of post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Mathcore, and Punk, smashing them together with pure, unadulterated intensity."
–Ghost Cult
"Car Bomb are back in full precision-strike mode. With the EP self-released this August and fresh material more brutal than ever, Car Bomb reaffirm their position as one of extreme music’s most forward-pushing forces."
–Idioteq
"Marking the 25th anniversary of the NYC collective and their first release in some six years, it is astounding that a band can still be producing at this level a generation into their careers. A dizzying meld of djent, prog and mathcore delivered with the technical prowess and unorthodox hand of free jazz... An absolute masterclass."
–Knotfest
"Chugging beatdowns, noodling insanity... If you’ve never turned the ignition for this group’s explosive tunes, this is the perfect firecracker in the tailpipe to get you started."
–Last Rites
"Extreme metal architects Car Bomb have returned... Coinciding with their 25th anniversary, Tiles Whisper Dreams promises to be both a celebration of Car Bomb’s boundary-pushing legacy and a bold leap forward into new sonic dimensions."
–Metal Injection
"Disorienting blastbeats, annihilating noodles... Pure disruption."
–MetalSucks
"Coffee is close by but not needed when you have something as explosive as the brand new single from Car Bomb."
–Nine Circles
"Car Bomb have established a well-deserved reputation for technically impressive but insanely chaotic music, ... The freakishly skittering and strangely squirming guitar work is batshit crazy; the drumming is explosive; the wide-ranging vocals are unhinged in their rendering of cynical and savage lyrics."
–No Clean Singing
"This isn’t just music that pummels you into a bloody pulp—it’s more like your entire being is atomized and scattered into the cold, indifferent void... Car Bomb is carving their own path, and they are fully committed to their vision without any compromise whatsoever."
–(The) Greg Kennelty
"Insane combination of off-kilter, crazy time signature riffs and grooves... Absolutely nuts. The band is ultra creative and mind-blowingly, technically proficient, to pull off something of this magnitude... Car Bomb, in my opinion, has never sounded so good."
–The Needle Drop
"A quarter of a century – that’s how long Car Bomb are now together. Such an anniversary of course demands for some new music and that’s what we will be getting on Friday, August 1 with their new EP, Tiles Whisper Dreams.”
–Veil of Sound
"Whether you want to call them experimental metal, or mathcore, or progressive metal, New York's Car Bomb don't sound quite like anyone else."
–Whatever Comes Next
"Chugging beatdowns, noodling insanity... If you’ve never turned the ignition for this group’s explosive tunes, this is the perfect firecracker in the tailpipe to get you started."
–Last Rites
"Extreme metal architects Car Bomb have returned... Coinciding with their 25th anniversary, Tiles Whisper Dreams promises to be both a celebration of Car Bomb’s boundary-pushing legacy and a bold leap forward into new sonic dimensions."
–Metal Injection
"Disorienting blastbeats, annihilating noodles... Pure disruption."
–MetalSucks
"Coffee is close by but not needed when you have something as explosive as the brand new single from Car Bomb."
–Nine Circles
"Car Bomb have established a well-deserved reputation for technically impressive but insanely chaotic music, ... The freakishly skittering and strangely squirming guitar work is batshit crazy; the drumming is explosive; the wide-ranging vocals are unhinged in their rendering of cynical and savage lyrics."
–No Clean Singing
"This isn’t just music that pummels you into a bloody pulp—it’s more like your entire being is atomized and scattered into the cold, indifferent void... Car Bomb is carving their own path, and they are fully committed to their vision without any compromise whatsoever."
–(The) Greg Kennelty
"Insane combination of off-kilter, crazy time signature riffs and grooves... Absolutely nuts. The band is ultra creative and mind-blowingly, technically proficient, to pull off something of this magnitude... Car Bomb, in my opinion, has never sounded so good."
–The Needle Drop
"A quarter of a century – that’s how long Car Bomb are now together. Such an anniversary of course demands for some new music and that’s what we will be getting on Friday, August 1 with their new EP, Tiles Whisper Dreams.”
–Veil of Sound
"Whether you want to call them experimental metal, or mathcore, or progressive metal, New York's Car Bomb don't sound quite like anyone else."
–Whatever Comes Next
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