If It's Too Loud...

Photo by Sabrina Stone We've been sitting on the latest single from Guts Club for a couple of weeks now, because "Change My Name" didn't quite sound like it should be posted in the weeks before Christmas, but now that we're in the strange period between Christmas and New Year's, it's time. "Change My Name" is a brutal nearly ten minute long noise and drone filled track that possibly leans into metal territory. This one is a cross between some of Sonic Youth's stranger 80's album cuts and The Stooges' extra long freak out tracks... but more metal. This is most certainly not meant for playing in the car with your friends before a fun night out. Guts Club have created this song that seems like a pained stream of consciousness explosion. It's loud, and noisy, and at times mostly unpleasant in a attention grabbing, almost beautiful sort of way. In a press release, Guts Club say that their new song is about  "... wading through a l...

Photo by Sabrina Stone New Orleans' Guts Club are the rare kind of band that both metalheads and indie rock fans can appreciate equally. Their music is loud and brutal at times, but it also has this beautiful and artistic quality. Their latest single, "The Gun Collector," is a ten minute epic that starts off with some of the most intense droning you've ever heard. You're basically a quarter of the way through the song before the guitar start to do anything else, but that's kind of perfect, in a way. The song just plods and plods through with this drone, drums, and vocals without you wanting anything else. It slowly builds from this, but so slowly that you barely even notice the song pick up. I don't know many bands that could pull this off, but most bands aren't Guts Club.  You can listen to "The Gun Collector" below. CLIFFS/WALLS is due out January 13, and can be pre-ordered through Bandcamp . For more on Guts Club, check out the band's ...

Photo by Sabrina Stone The latest from Guts Club is about ten times heavier than what we normally cover, but I simply can't resist this one. "Cliffs/Walls" is a ten minute epic of just pure noise and drone. It's a brutal song slathered in feedback. I couldn't say that Guts Club are metal, but they do brush up against metal a bit for this one. "Cliffs/Walls" is more of an experimental doom song. It's impossibly loud right from the start as the song just builds and builds in scope. A lot of experimental or noise songs tend to be mostly about the art and less about being loud and causing an emotional reaction. "Cliffs/Walls" is pure emotion. Like a lot of the music we bring you, Guts Club aren't going to be for everyone, but if this clicks with you it's going to click hard.  The band says of their new song: “'Cliffs/Walls' is a meditation on grief and how we navigate a world overflowing with extreme loss and devastation. Some o...