Windhand unveil new single “Diablerie” from their upcoming new release “Eternal Return”
Today WINDHAND give us another glimpse of what’s to come on their impending album Eternal Return with new single “Diablerie”. Embodying the album’s more reflective side, “Diablerie” fully captures the band’s artistic growth and the juxtaposition of genre-bending, heavy psychedelia that’s apparent throughout Eternal Return.
Eternal Return is a complete life-to-death journey. As unplanned things go, it’s an observation of as well as a reflection on life’s ups and downs, joys and sorrows, beginnings and ends. Between the band’s 2015, highly acclaimed Grief’s Infernal Flower, and 2018’s Eternal Return, WINDHAND welcomed new life, survived lineup changes, and mourned unexpected death. The songs and song ordering are the direct result of those experiences. Where “Halcyon” is assured in its opening, the closing track “Feather” is its funeral march.
Eternal Return represents a new era for the group, a chrysalis moment that takes them to new and unforeseen heights. Boosted by Garrett Morris‘ consistently cool riffs-forged at the crossroads of Iommi‘s otherworldly import and Kurt Cobain‘s spontaneous precocity-powered by Ryan Wolfe and Parker Chandler‘s groove-laden rhythms, and propelled by Dorthia Cottrell‘s smoky yet wistful vocals, WINDHAND‘s new album is a two-step jump for Richmond‘s finest purveyors of the psycho-actively heavy.
WINDHAND brought Jack Endino back into the fold. Together, they spent two weeks recording at Soundhouse Recording in Seattle. Described as “smooth” and “intense,” the sessions with the famed producer were just what WINDHAND wanted. Endino also understood the group’s artistic progression, chiefly the admiration of and blending in late ’80s/early ’90s grunge. Out of it all, WINDHAND continued to refactor and refine their vision of heavy.
Eternal Return sees its release October 5th on Relapse Records. WINDHAND venture on a full North American tour next month with Satan’s Satyrs.
Artwork By Arik Roper
Windhand
Eternal Return
October 5, 2018
Relapse Records
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1 – Halcyon
2 – Grey Garden
3 – Pilgrim’s Rest
4 – First To Die
5 – Light Into Dark
6 – Red Cloud
7 – Eyeshine
8 – Diablerie
9 – Feather
