SIRE LANGUISH - "Heaven's Night"

SIRE LANGUISH: avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick channels Immolation and Killing Joke through new solo project; Decibel Magazine premieres "Heaven's Night" single

From New York City, veteran guitarist/vocalist Garett Bussanick reveals "Heaven's Night," the second single from Pull to God, the upcoming debut EP from his new solo project, Sire Languish.

Stream "Heaven's Night," here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/11/19/track-premiere-sire-languish-heavens-night/

Pre-order the EP, here: https://sirelanguish.bandcamp.com/album/pull-to-god

Known throughout the avant-metal scene for his exploratory guitar work and emotive death metal vocals, Garett Bussanick has been honing his craft in several distinct bands since the 1990s. Bussanick is most widely known for his current band, Aeviterne, whose latest release on Profound Lore Records has been described by Stereogum as "ominous and malevolent... also hooky as hell."

Sire Languish reveals Bussanick as a solo artist and multi-instrumentalist, with the Pull to God release being his drumming debut.

Decibel Magazine's Tim Mudd reports: "Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it—every contour, every impulse, every shadow unmistakably theirs. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those rare cases. “Solo project” isn’t even the right phrase. This is Bussanick unfiltered: vocals, guitars, synths, bass, and—for the first time in three decades of recorded work—drums. If you’re familiar with Bussanick’s body of work—Aeviterne’s eruptive dissonance, Flourishing’s cerebral churn, even the long-buried mutations of Cardiovascular Sub-Hypothermia—you’ll recognize the DNA. But Sire Languish is its own creature. The architecture is leaner, the melodic angles sharper, the rhythmic pulse more direct. The rep nailed it: imagine a convergence of Immolation’s tectonic lurch and Killing Joke’s apocalyptic propulsion, rendered with the nervous-system precision Bussanick’s become known for."

Pull to God was recorded and mixed by Ryan Jones (Mutilation Rites, Body Stuff), and mastered by Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts).

Photo by Matt Ahearn

Out today: TRACE AMOUNT - FLAGRANT

FLAGRANT, the new album by NYC industrial extremist Trace Amount, is out today on Bleakhouse, the label founded by King Yosef.

Tracked at Corpus Studios with Harlan Steed of Show Me The Body, FLAGRANT is the ultimate realization of the Trace Amount project, thus far. Founded six years ago by vocalist, drummer, producer, and visual artist Brandon Gallagher, Trace Amount explores the deepest, darkest recesses of human misery, working within its own unique palette of industrial, noise, metal, dub and hip hop influences.

On FLAGRANT, drums pound coldly and sparsely; ambient tones surge like choirs of evil angels; Gallagher’s groans and screams drip with contempt; techno-apocalyptic imagery abounds. It is perhaps not "music," but a beating, a purge, a guided tour of pure torment, likely to excite fans of Scorn, HIDE, and Dreamcrusher.

Against all odds, Gallagher has made big things happen for this highly inaccessible project, including tours of the US, Mexico, the UK, Australia, and Japan, and collabs with members of Frontline Assembly, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Pig Destroyer, Uniform, and more. Unapologetically, Gallagher continues to grind forward and burrow deeper into the world he has been building, playing by his own rules. The title of the new album says it all. "In basketball, the most aggressive foul you can get is a flagrant foul," he explains. "Like, you're literally swinging at another player with intent. That's me. I am intentional. I am flagrant."

Buy FLAGRANT, here: 

https://bleakhouse.co/collections/all/trace-amount

Stream the official "Seeing God on the L Train" (ft. Fatboi Sharif) music video, here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5EegT-c_Rc

Stream the offical "Clinical" (ft. Lana del Rabies) music video, here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gQVRRsyBc

"Absolute experimental-industrial-noise... Despite Gallagher’s commitment to open-ended song structure, there is a variable that refuses to die down on each release and that is general dread and ominous tidings."

–Brutal Resonance

"When I need a dose of harsh industrial noise, Trace Amount never disappoints... Like popping in a new wave cassette from the 1980s only to find out it’s been possessed by poltergeists. It’s a whirlwind of caustic sonics that sucks my brain into a place of pure blissful audio torment!"
–CVLT Nation

"'Clinical' seethes like an open wound. Gallagher’s voice tears through the track with the gravity of self-destruction, delivered like a clenched fist. The production is suffocating, arriving with industrial grit and precision, including Lana Del Rabies’ ghostly vocal which lingers like a spectral presence."
–Destroy//Exist

"Trace Amount’s new album, FLAGRANT, is a massive amplification of the tensions that makes industrial music so entrancing, but it’s not necessarily designed to make you dance. It almost borders on sound design as Trace Amount is more of an enveloping, evolving takeover of the senses."
–Fecking Bahamas

"NYC noise merchant Trace Amount doesn’t make it easy for you. The one man act’s latest release, FLAGRANT, trades in the power electronics adjacent sound of preceding records, boiled down to its most caustic form, with undiluted antipathy that cuts through the clatter and cacophony by way of sheer meanness... Even at a digestible 7 songs, its not a record you’ll want to throw on lightly, but there’s no shortage of perversely enjoyable hostility for your inner sicko to cling to when the mood strikes."

–I Die: You Die

"A cold, hostile fusion of noise, metal, dub, and hip hop tracked at Corpus Studios with Show Me The Body’s Harlan Steed. Built on sparse, punishing drums and night-terror ambience, the record pushes Brandon Gallagher’s project deeper into its own abyss, with features from Fatboi Sharif and Lana del Rabies... FLAGRANT lands as Trace Amount’s most merciless vision yet."

–Idioteq

"Brandon Gallagher has unleashed a new auditory onslaught with 'Seeing God on the L Train,' offering the latest taste of the forthcoming FLAGRANT album from Trace Amount. The track sees the New York City-based industrial artist collaborating with New Jersey rapper Fatboi Sharif, whose deadpan wordplay contrasts with the metallic percussive minimalism of the instrumental, both eventually erupting into a noisy coda of maniacal wailing."
–ReGen

Photo by Jackson Green

Out today: THE GRASSHOPPER LIES HEAVY - HEAVY

HEAVY, the aptly titled new album by San Antonio, Texas crushers The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, is out today on Learning Curve Records. 

Sludgy and fiery, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy (a name inspired by a Philip K. Dick novel) rocks like an intense reimagining of Mastodon at their prime. But a journey through TGLH's back catalog reveals an adventurous project, operating on two fronts. Entirely instrumental albums such as 2014's All Sadness, Grinning Into Flow and 2017's Cavern (the soundtrack to a short film, created with the help of Bob Catlin of Pigface and Psychic TV) saw the band exploring meditative, ambient realms. 

“TGLH has always been a band with two sides; one side, this super heavy thing and the other side, more cinematic or post-rock,” states founder James Woodard. On HEAVY, Woodard – backed by the ace musicianship of guitarist James Cameron Taylor, bassist Oscar Moreno, and drummers Steven Barrera and Luke Zachary Mitchell – has chosen to commit fully to his most metallic tendencies and the result is a totally gripping experience. "I really wanted to challenge myself on this album," he says. "Some of the songs are the most difficult songs to perform, I’ve ever written in this band. They’re also a love letter to my inspirations. You’ll hear Sepultura and Napalm Death homages on this record, if you listen closely."

For those missing the band's more introspective work, Woodard hints that there is more to come: "You'll just have to wait for the next album."

Stream HEAVY and buy it, here: https://thegrasshopperliesheavy.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-2

Stream the official "Lyrics are Hard" music video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDy8U8Wtw8Y

Stream the official "We Are All the Antichrist" music video (featuring vocals by Capra's Crow Lotus), here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKfr2DHn-q0

"Post-metal/doom/sludge chaos agents The Grasshopper Lies Heavy... Their upcoming record, HEAVY, both purports to be and actually is."
–The Bad Penny

"Sludgy and all the way ignited... an unrelenting heaviness that sounds ferocious from start to finish."
–Destroy//Exist

"What The Grasshopper Lies Heavy steamroll out with HEAVY is some good ol’ fashioned riff-forward, chunky-waves-smashin’-into-your-eardrums brand of AmRep-appropriate noise rock... In yet another year packed with exceptional noise rock releases, where finding your flavor of choice is every bit as paralyzing as choosing a fucking ice cream flavor, HEAVY stands out."
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy

"There’s a groove in the wrath displayed by this group that’s undeniable. It’s definitely trying to grasp you by the ear lobes and force you to pay attention — and that’s a good thing."

–MetalSucks

"This album is as catchy as Torche on their best day and as thick as Crowbar on their worst… seriously, that GOOD. These eight tracks are an ingenious class on how to write a fistful of earworms and keep the metalheads coming back for more while simultaneously slaying all the mathcore kids at the blackjack table."
–Nine Circles

"HEAVY specializes in mid-tempo assaults, lethal grooves, and cathartic explosions... It’s the sort of riff-writing acumen that made Mastodon’s Remission so infectious, but here it is filtered through the pummeling power of early Coalesce."
–No Clean Singing