Debiut TORTURERS' LOBBY za dwa miesiące

 

Today, Caligari Records in conspiracy with Ixiol Productions announce May 17th as the international release date for Torturers' Lobby's highly anticipated debut album, Deadened Nerves. Caligari will release the CD and cassette tape versions while Ixiol will release the vinyl version.

Hailing from Tampa, Torturers' Lobby began as a three-piece band with Tim Anderson on drums, Ryan Conway on bass, and Evan Dawson, on guitar/vocals. After the Again debut demo in 2021, Adam Shaw joined as a dedicated vocalist. With this lineup, the band recorded the Crisis of Faith Rehearsal, which was released later in 2021. The following year, the 7" EP Man in Zwugzang was released, and Anderson left the band after the subsequent Kinetic Disapproval rehearsal, which featured some early versions of songs that would be on Torturers' Lobby's eventual debut album, Deadened Nerves. Dwane Nihiser replaced him, and that debut album is the first release with him playing drums.

Now at last here and their lineup firm, Deadened Nerves announces Torturers' Lobby's arrival with devastating punctuation. A metal record for metal people, the band's first full-length doesn't kowtow to genre conventions - death metal, black metal, thrash, and even juiced-up traditional metal all get diced and sliced into their cranky cauldron - nor does it get overly "clever" and pay lazy lip service to a please-everybody middle ground. No, Torturers' Lobby simply go for the throat quickly and without compunction, rushing forth with an urgency of approach and physicality that's tangible - truly, this is a whole band playing together instead of punched-in parts - but soon twist the knife in myriad ways. And that's perhaps the trump card of Deadened Nerves: violent and off the rails it might often be, but there's a diabolic logic to the angular shapes Torturers' Lobby throw, a strive to elevate songwriting to something at once palpitating and mind-bending, careening and in control. RIFFS are aplenty, and the production's thick and scuzzy yet fully pro, and Shaw's vocals keep apace with acerbic annunciation.

Nasty, authentically underground, but not bogged down by too-cool borders, Torturers' Lobby shitkick past, present, and future with Deadened Nerves.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Reaper's Impunity" HERE at Caligari's Bandcamp, where the CD and tape versions can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:

Tracklisting for Torturers' Lobby's Deadened Nerves

1. Dawning

2. Barbaric Alchemy

3. Chromosomal Devastation

4. Captured Pieces

5. Reaper's Impunity

6. Hypnotic Seeds Sown

7. Humanity's Husk

8. Re-education

9. Enduring Spirit

10. Reptilian Hide