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PYRRHON "What Passes For Survival" vinyl preorders are up at http://deathwishinc.eu/pyrrhon (Europe/world) and https://deathwishinc.com/products/pyrrhon-what-passes-for-survival (North Amercia). The record comes on limited yellow piss/olive or black vinyl with reverse-side printed jacket - artwork by Caroline Harrison. A digital download will be sent closer to the release date (August 11th). Stream the opening track "The Happy Victim's Creed" below :

 

"Continuing to shapeshift and unravel, while using unorthodox songwriting techniques that border on the incomprehensible, avant-garde extreme metal quartet PYRRHON return with What Passes For Survival.

Loosely written over the period of a year, and refined across 6 weeks of touring, What Passes For Survival is PYRRHON's first audio contribution with new drummer Steve Schwegler. It integrates elements of disorienting free improvisation while maintaining a proper foothold in volatile, ferocious death metal. All 4 members contributed at least one song on the album, which was recorded live at Thousand Caves studio with engineer Collin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice) in its rawest possible form, using no click tracks or sound replacement.

Comments vocalist Doug Moore:

"What Passes For Survival is the first music we wrote with my old friend Steve Schwegler on drums, which makes it the first recording of us with a fresh lineup since our first LP from back in 2011. It's something of a reset for the band that way, and we reverted to a more primal songwriting state while compiling it — we aimed to write the most physically and emotionally intense songs we could, instead of deliberately exploring new sounds. As a result, we ended up using a larger proportion of ideas from death metal relative to our other musical ingredients than we have in our past few releases. Pyrrhon's target sound has always been a sort of animalistic, spasmodic ripping and gnashing, like a dog shaking the life out of its prey, and I think we realized that vision more completely on this album than we ever have before."

 

CREDITS

— Recorded live, mixed, and mastered by Colin Marston at The Thousand Caves

— Artwork by Caroline Harrison

 

TRACKLIST

01. The Happy Victim's Creed

02. The Invisible Hand Holds A Whip

03. Goat Mockery Ritual

04. Tennessee

05. Trash Talk Landfill

06. The Unraveling: Hegemony Of Grasping Fears

07. The Unraveling: Free At Last

08. The Unraveling: Live From The Fresh Corpse

09. Empty Tenement Spirit

 

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