Bloomington, Indiana’s RACEBANNON will release its new album Six Sik Sisters on January 24, 2012 via Tizona Records. “Capable of killing the weak on first listen,” the album was recorded in Salem, MA by executive soundscapist Kurt Ballou (Trap Them, Nails) of Converge at GodCity Studios and mastered at apocalyptic audio levels by the venerable Alan Douches (Tombs, Kvelertak) at New York’s West West Side.
The Onion A.V. Club gives extreme music fans a special treat, rolling out the new RACEBANNON song “Thee Brother” and prefacing the premiere with “Don’t say we didn’t warn you” (!!). Check out “Thee Brother” now at this location!
Brooklyn Vegan also recently debuted the new RACEBANNON cut “Thee Plea”, noting that “Racebannon doesn’t fuck around”. Check out RACEBANNON’s “Thee Plea” now at this location.
RACEBANNON’s Six Sik Sisters delivers nine soul-withering waves of sonically barbaric extreme music. Long known for their sanity-splintering releases for labels such as Level Plane, Secretly Canadian and Southern and collaborations with some of Earth’s most extreme musicians (including MERZBOW, the universally recognized God of Noise), Six Sik Sisters is a stripped-down affair yet clear and massive sounding and proves the band to be at its hungriest, heaviest, and most venomous. The album’s tempos surge to both the fastest and downright burliest in RACEBANNON’s 15 year history with impetuous results: warped speed-metal riffs colliding with Sabbath-esque knuckle-drag alongside breakneck warpspeed drumming that falls only a tad short of grindcore. The “noise” facet of the band’s previous work is now singularly incorporated into the songs and one has to wonder whether riffsmith James Bauman has been reviling in Dark Angel, Exodus and other classic Combat-core staples of his youth as his speed-picked riffs attain an intensity and ferocity like never before.
Circling a running theme “about plague and witchcraft”, the record batters the listener against pulse-pounding rhythms while resident cult-leader Mike Anderson pushes his lucid squalls and verbal exorcisms to new heights a midst the occult backdrop of a story “cloaked in the black plague” that runs through to the album’s brain-pummeling completion. The record’s uneasy artwork was created by Tom Denney (Cannibal Corpse. Kylesa) and is the perfect accompaniment to RACEBANNON’s unnerving sound. This is not “feel good” music! Pure punishment!! Glorious!!!
“Salem ended up feeling like the ideal town to make a record about plague and witchcraft, said Bauman. “Go figure; we were right down the street from the graveyard of the Witch Trials called “The Burying Point”. We were finally able to bring out the intensity and the volume on this record that we were looking for with some of our past albums and when we were all sitting in the basement at Godcity the first time we listened to the whole album as a band and I said to everyone, ‘This is f**kin’ scary!'”
The track listing for RACEBANNON’s Six Sik Sisters is as follows:
1.) Thee Plea
2.) Thee Apology
3.) Thee Interlude
4.) Thee Brother
5.) Thee Truth
6.) Thee Solo
7.) Thee Challenge
8.) Thee Desperate
9.) Thee End
In addition to Anderson and Bauman, RACEBANNON features Chris Saligoe (bass) and Brad Williams (drums)
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