Cursebinder - Psychohazard - CD/Vinyl

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Formed in Kraków in 2019, Cursebinder set out to dissolve the lines between extreme metal and just about anything else. The self-produced demo EP (2020) announced the intention; the debut full-length Drifting (Avantgarde Music, April 2023) delivered on it, with forty minutes of haunting atmosphere, nuanced guitar work and shifting rhythms that earned the band a reputation for music impossible to pin down and difficult to forget.

Three years later, Psychohazard is a force with no shape and no mercy. The second full-length by Cursebinder hits harder and cuts deeper than anything they’ve done yet. Their latest release sees the band push for a more introspective, organic and life-affirming direction, circling the existential clash between the urban rat race and the human desire for love and connection.

At its center is raw human experience with all its contradictions; its veins overflow with a burning desire to look ever closer at the intangible forces that drive our lives. The band smashes their way through eight tracks of demolishing riffs dissolving into hazy atmospheres, jazz-inflected drift surfacing from the dark and layered rhythms drenched in pure psychedelic rage, baring their souls to those willing to listen.

Their commitment to the ideas, unrelenting emotional power and the intensity of their live shows spill all over this record. So does everything else. Unpredictable, elemental and intimate, Psychohazard is an invitation to ask the questions we’ve been avoiding.

Tracklist:
01. Limits
02. Death Season
03. The Astronaut
04. Saturnine Rage
05. Prayers for the Living, Flowers for the Dead
06. Made to be Sold
07. Naked City
08. Under the Skin