RUSSIAN CIRCLES - EMPROS (LP)

Russian Circles Empros on LP

Chicago trio Russian Circles return with their fourth and heaviest album to date with Empros. The album picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009's Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles' Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection.

Taking to Chicago's Phantom Manor studio once again with producer Brandon Curtis of The Secret Machines and Interpol, who also helmed the band's previous album Geneva, Russian Circles set out to experiment with their sound in new ways that would still reflect their live sound. In so doing, the band reached a new creative apex in which each of the musicians, guitarist Mike Sullivan, drummer Dave Turncrantz and bassist Brian Cook impart a streamlined and intensified attack to their songs that pummels even as it shifts throughout a range of moods and tempos.

Russian Circles Empros Track Listing:

1. 309
2. Mladek
3. Schipol
4. Atackla
5. Batu
6. Praise Be Man