Biblical premiere new track

BIBLICAL have today released a brand new track from their upcoming sophomore album, The City That Always Sleeps. The Toronto quartet, have unveiled the track Fugue State via Echoes & Dust. The City That Always Sleeps will be released via Tee Pee Records on September 15, 2017. Listen to Fugue State here via Echoes & Dust

Of the track, bassist and vocalist, Nick Sewell comments: "We were determined to explore some new sounds for this record and Fugue Statedefinitely falls into that category. More than any other song on the record, it really operates with a sense of open space. That gave us plenty of room to experiment, specifically with the vocals which turned out to have a sort of morbid Pet Sounds vibe.

"Lyrically, the song is a classic rumination on existential dread — the type you might have in the middle of the night after walking from a bad dream. There’s a poem by John Updike called Perfection Wasted that I kept coming back to. It rides a fine line between dry, sardonic wit and tenderness. Definitely the qualities I was hoping to capture with Fugue.”

BIBLICAL's sophomore album is a deep dive into sludgy psych rock that explores spaces, textures and tones beyond the outer limits. Heavy, propulsive and totally hypnotic, The City That Always Sleeps is BIBLICAL at its weapons-grade best, leveraging rhythm and dynamics to explosive effect. Smashing supersaturated guitar riffs, piled-high psych production and the ghostly croon of bassist/vocalist Nick Sewell unite to create monstrous music that fires off svelte, snaking grooves and turbulent, gorgeous chaos.

Commenting on the album, Sewell adds: "Our album is a meditation on buried things—buried ideas, buried feelings, buried people. We're all dragging around ghosts, whether it's someone we've lost or things we think we should have done differently."

In addition to Sewell, the quartet features in its ranks guitar / synth player Andrew Scott (both Scott and Sewell played with Death From Above drummer Sebastien Grainger in his Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains project), lead guitarist Matt Mclaren and drummer Jay Anderson (also of Comet Control). Motivation for the band's name is rooted in the "Ghostbusters" quote from Peter Venkman: "This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions!"

The City That Always Sleeps is the follow-up to BIBLICAL’s celebrated debut, Monsoon Season (2014), hailed by The Huffington Post as “furious". Inspired by greats such as CAN, MC5 and Blue Öyster Cult, the sound of BIBLICAL has been lauded as "a Red Sea-parting surge of narcotic guitar noise" by Pitchfork and "deliciously smothering" by Canadian national magazine Exclaim!. Before and since the 2014 release of its full-length debut, BIBLICAL has toured and / or rocked stages alongside DFA1979, Eagles of Death Metal, Fucked Up, Kyuss Lives! and Red Fang among many more.

The City That Always Sleeps track list

1. Mature Themes
2. The Last Thing I Remember
3. Regicide
4. Fugue State
5. Gallows Humor
6. Spiral Staircase
7. The City That Always Sleeps
8. House Of Knives