Texan metalcore outfit Judiciary will be dropping their new conceptual EP “Stalagmite Angels” on September 04th through Closed Casket Activities. Phil Odom produced this upcoming five-song outing, which was later mixed and mastered by GRAMMY Award-winning musician/producer Will Putney. A press release noted of this effort:
”Stalagmite Angels‘ is an EP about anger at the world, belief in yourself, and how harnessing both in the pursuit of growth is necessary to achieve. But furthermore, it’s a concept record that envisions a subterranean world in both a literal and metaphorical sense—where hidden beauty lurks in the shadows (and in the eye of the beholder) and where triumph manifests in the ability to rise from the depths and into the world above.’
Cult classic horror film ‘The Descent‘ was among the influences cited as inspiration for the record. As for the sound of the songs, drummer Austin Looney said of the band’s vision:
“The goal with this EP was a hard reset, but we also wanted to chill the fuck out a bit, have fun, and do something that felt true to the four of us. We wanted time to reconfigure things and let the music come naturally–temper this new mindset that we’ve adopted post-‘Flesh + Blood‘.”
Vocalist Jake Collinson, who also assisted with writing guitar parts on this outing, added:
“90s hardcore and hardcore in general is always gonna be our natural inclination, but it manifests with different elements not only from song to song but within each song. Whether that’s Dying Breed or Cannibal Corpse or Crowbar or Machine Head or any number of other influences that any one of us may have, it all manifests in our work, and through our individual and collective lenses. With this EP, we transformed those ideas into the Judiciary approach.”
“Wall Of Skulls” is the first track to be rolled out from this effort and the band collectively shared that it is:
“…A monument to a new era of Judiciary that stands on the foundation of our past. It’s an ode to hardcore and the underground scene that we know and love—it’s what made us who we are today. And though we’ve ventured into different realms of heavy music since Judiciary began, every single time we return with new skulls to add to our little slice of the underground.”
Director Wes Ellis helmed the below music video for that track.
“Stalagmite Angels” track listing:
01 – “Wall Of Skulls“
02 – “Sanguine Reality“
03 – “Hymns Of A Calcified Warpath“
04 – “Soul Sutra“
05 – “Death Knell“
Pre-orders can be found via judiciary.lnk.to/stalagmiteangels.
