For Jesus Chrüsler Supercar, Death'n'Roll's Polluted Star is "Rising" (Early EP Stream)
Extreme metal’s early attempts at bringing rock music back into the fold were… variably successful with fans. I kind of get it, though I was a toddler at the time: in the mid-1990s, heavy metal seemed threatened by all sorts of external forces and in danger of losing its identity. Fortunately, in the present day, literally anything goes, because, as the saying goes, metal is too big to fail-or maybe we’re all just chomping at the bit for weirder and weirder stuff. Anyway, the intervening years have also proven that genre fusions like death’n’roll are not some sort of cash grab strategy and certainly not a bid for mainstream accessibility. Sweden’s Jesus Chrüsler Supercar have dedicated their ten-year career thus far to demonstrating the dour and bizarre potential of death’n’roll: however you choose to frame what the band is doing with their death-metal-infused vein of grimy rock’n’roll, it definitely isn’t a bid for pop appeal.
On their new EP Rising, death metal is less of an audible portion and more of a corrosive agent. It’s the leaking car battery wired up to a bucket of whiskey, motor oil, and chainsaw lubricant, turning sleazy rock into a harrowing health hazard. Entombed’s Wolverine Blues is definitely a sonic ancestor here, which middle tracks “Suck in the Dust” and “When You Are Dead” strongly evoke, but there’s a bold undercurrent of doom metal elsewhere that mixes sublimely with that groove-heavy, caustic component. The result is sublime ear toxins: on Rising wide-open drums and HM-2 fueled guitars rip away in a joyous romp helmed by bellowed cynicism. Stream the whole thing below before it drops on Friday.
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The band comments:
On [2023-06-09] ”Rising” will see the dawn of day. The EP will contain three brand new songs and one previously unreleased. Spawned from the ashes of the recent plague days, ”Rising” is the perfect embodiment of hell on earth and everything that followed. Four songs to make you remember or forget. The choice is yours. Horns up!”
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Rising releases June 9th via Majestic Mountain Records.
