Jirm releases "The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam"

JIRM will make an impact on you: they have an innovative, and highly personal take on psychedelic rock and its many facets and elements. It is music with a retrospective outlook, taking the listener on adventurous excursions, deep into one's mind. Their music aims to broaden your horizons and consciousness. The band was formed in 2004 under the name Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus, by Micke Backendal and Karl Apelmo. In 2007, they were joined by Henke Persson and Viktor Källgren to seal the definitive line-up. JIRM has toured extensively, from Sao Paulo (Brazil) to Pleszew (Poland), positioning themselves as one of the hardest working and most prolific outfits of the underground heavy rock scene. They decided to change the name to JIRM when releasing their fourth full-length 'Surge Ex Monumentis' in 2018, a record that brimmed with newfound energy and has been described as "both a roller-coaster of emotion and a cinematic triumph" by Echoes & Dust and “a blissful mixture of Soundgarden at their grooviest and Pink Floyd” by Mass Movement.

Their fifth album "The Tunnel, The Well, Holy Bedlam" has been recorded in a true pandemic style: the tracks were recorded one by one, in five different studios across Sweden. It's been a challenge both from a songwriting and technical point of view. However, the end result sounds bigger and better than ever, with no holds barred. There is one thing you can be sure of with JIRM's new album: "it's not a joke this time, I'm leaving reality for sure".

About the creative process on this new album, JIRM comments: "The making of this album has been long and weird — it has been a journey colored by streams of galactic beams and all that magic and stuff and has shaped this creation into a somewhat new organism. The songs have met our maker and turned back with new predictions of what lies ahead, and we are ready to draw swords on the battlefield of sound. 'The Tunnel The Well Holy Bedlam' has more or less erupted from the same abyss of darkness as our last record. When making records in a weird way like that, nothing ever turns out as we predicted, and it has evolved into some weird process that we have surrendered ourselves to. So if you like or dislike any of this, we literally can’t be blamed. And the cause being, we totally lost control the minute we made our first contact with the making of sound."

TRACKLIST:

1. Liquid Covenant

2. Deeper Dwell

3. You Fly

4. Repent in Blood

5. Carried Away

6. Pestilence