Russian Circles have officially scheduled their new album “Empros” for an October 25th release date through Sargent House. According to the official press release the outing will be the bands “heaviest album to date” with the choice quote reading as follows:
“Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date — but also with Empros they’re poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of genre. Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009’s Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis.
Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles‘ Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection. Or, like a lone surviving wooly beast emerging from a brutal winter’s frost, Empros is the sound of a band shaking the ages from its shoulders with all the brutal force of a behemoth awakened.”
You can find both the track listing and cover art for the outing, which was produced by Brandon Curtis of The Secret Machines & Interpol, below:
01 – “309”
02 – “Mladek”
03 – “Schipol”
04 – “Atackla”
05 – “Batu”
06 – “Praise Be Man”
