For years, George Hirsch and David Walling were in the great Philadelphia hardcore band Blacklisted together. Blacklisted broke up in 2015, and they've played a few reunion shows recently. Hirsch and Walling's new band Staticlone recently released their absolutely sick full-length debut Better Living Through Static Vision. Now, Hirsch and Walling have another new band together. They're called Colossal Rains, and their debut album Feral Sorrow comes out early next year. I have heard it. It rocks.
In Colossal Rains, Hirsch and Wailing are joined by Jon-Michael Nean on bass and Scarab frontman Tyler Mullen on drums. Together, they make some extremely dirty, heavy music, and it sounds nothing like Staticlone's gigantic D-beat gallop. We've already posted lead single "Deadlights," and now they've followed it with a real-deal rocker called "Flowers On A Landmine."
"Flowers On A Landmine," the last song on Feral Sorrow, is driven by a guttural swamp-churn that made me think of Alice In Chains. Also, I don't think I've ever heard George Hirsch sound this much like Lemmy. In a press release, Hirsch says, "For some reason, the song's ending riff felt like it was screaming out to me... tears hold more weight than smiles. That became the opening and refrain lyric and how the chorus was written. I was also watching (and re-watching) the UK TV series Flowers, and this song reminds me of that." Check out out below.
Feral Sorrow is out 1/23 on Memory Music.
