Pitchfork is currently streaming the opening track from Locrian’s upcoming album Return to Annihilation, which is due out on June 25th through Relapse. I have become so used to Locrian’s dark droning mentality that this new track, “Eternal Return”, really surprised me. This four minute piece opens up with swelling drones that build into a bright collage of melodic, almost post-hardcore ish riffing and rhythms and keyboard melodies. The distorted vocals which are swallowed by one another add a nice dimension of weirdness to this overall upbeat sounding song. I was definitely not expecting this from Locrian. Head over to Pitchfork and check out the track right meow!
-Lane Oliver
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It should be known by now that there are a few Pig Destroyer fanboys here at American Aftermath. We love the band and we will support and enjoy anything and everything they release. This is most definitely the case for the bands recently released EP Mass & Volume which has been released as a part of Patlapse (a compilation to raise money for the college fund of the recently deceased Pat Egan, Relapse’s director of retail sales and marketing.) and it’s incredible. 
