Glacier – Photograph by Banana Masher aka Matt Darcy
Boston post-metal architects Glacier return with Extra Distant/Extra Violent—a blistering, industrial-tinged companion piece to final 12 months’s A Distant, Violent Shudder. Out July 11, the five-track album clocks in simply shy of 46 minutes and options a few of the most unrelenting and imaginative materials the band has ever launched.
The album opens with “The Barren Soil,” a pummeling B-side from the Shudder periods that picks up proper the place that file left off—stuffed with distortion-saturated guitars and tectonic low-end that evokes a post-apocalyptic crawl throughout scorched earth. From there, the album ventures into daring new territory with 4 reimagined compositions crafted by a cadre of collaborators, together with We Misplaced the Sea, thisquietarmy, ameokama, and Eeli Helin (Fawn Limbs, Resonant Home, Antler Disko). Every artist builds upon themes from A Distant, Violent Shudder, layering in textures and atmospheres that push Glacier’s sound additional into bleak, cinematic realms—equal components meditative and devastating.
“We’re honored to have contributions from artists we admire,” the band shares. “The brand new compositions spotlight everybody’s artistry and increase upon what we did on A Distant, Violent Shudder with layers of added instrumentation that push these boundaries into an much more devastating, industrial sound.”
Following the vital approval for Shudder, Glacier have toured Canada and China, and shared the stage with heavyweights like Cave In, Boris, Bell Witch, and Nothing. This summer time, they hit the street once more for a collection of U.S. dates, together with a set at POST. Competition the place they’ll carry out A Distant, Violent Shudder in its entirety alongside We Misplaced the Sea, This Will Destroy You, and extra.
Expertise Extra Distant/Extra Violent in full under, pre-order now on Bandcamp, and catch Glacier dwell this summer time at one of many dates listed after the leap.
Glacier Summer season 2025 Reside Dates:
July 21 – The Sinclair (Cambridge, MA) w/ Pelican & Porcelain
July 22 – Trans Pecos (NY, NY) w/ Glass Artery, Pants Exploder, Guhts
July 23 – Inexperienced Beacon Gallery (Greenburg, PA) w/ Feast on the Fallen, wheretheforsythiablooms, Sundras
July 24 – Hello Fi (Indianapolis, IN) – POST.Fest (performing A Distant, Violent Shudder) w/ We Misplaced the Sea, This Will Destroy You, Pianos Change into the Tooth, Pillars, Zeta, Isolation Drills, Driving at Evening
July 25 – Grog Store (Cleveland, OH) w/ Frayle, Gradual Wake, Celestyn
July 26 – Wax Atlas (Baltimore, MD) w/ Carl Gene, On the Graves, Crows Foot
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