HeavyHardMetalmania: HEIRS

Melbourne, Australia's avant-garde post-doom quartet HEIRS will unleash their newest release stateside next week, in the form of the Hunter EP. Picking up where their 2010-released Fowl full-length left off, the new three-song mini-release takes it's time permeating your psyche with nearly 25 minutes of even more mellow and somber passages, leading off with two original tracks and closing out the release with an extensive Sisters of Mercy cover track.

Hunter will be officially released on CD, 10" wax and digital download in North America on Tuesday, December 6th via HEIRS' own Denovali Records, bearing new stateside distro via Nail Distribution.

This week the band have posted a brand new video for the title track to the EP. Check out "Hunter" and more on HEIRS and the new EP at this location.

Hunter EP Track Listing:

1. Hunter

2. Symptom

3. Never Land (originally recorded by Sisters of Mercy)

Stay tuned for more updates on the band as they plan more live actions and more throughout the new year.

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Earsplit PR joined Melbourne-based instrumental act HEIRS, as the band prepare to officially release their sophomore album Fowl upon U.S. shores this Spring.

Hailed as one of the best post-metal albums of 2009, the band’s debut, Alchera, established HEIRS as one of Australia’s foremost instrumental acts. Released by German label Denovali Records, the album’s accompanying tour saw the band play 69 shows across Europe and Japan, cementing their reputation for delivering an engulfing and all-consuming live experience.

HEIRS' new album, Fowl -- again released on Denovali Records -- displays a shift towards a broader sonic palette. Incorporating a pugilistic rhythmic foundation with coarse, threatening guitar textures and a stronger electronic presence, a great leap forward for HEIRS, Fowl takes their sound beyond genres and into a realm that is almost hermetic in its vision. Intensely focused yet expansive, the album is technically complex, yet uncluttered and sparse in its execution, simplicity, self-discipline and restraint are the keys to the album's success.

Having recently completed their second European tour, and having already released Fowl in Europe and Australia, HEIRS have set their sights on the U.S., and are set will officially release the album on CD, LP and digital download stateside on April 4th, 2011. Check out the track "Burrow," as well as the Fowl cover art, live footage from HEIRS and more at this location.

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"...the album's highlights -- particularly the relentlessly dark, hammering percussion of the title track and the drunken, The Jesus Lizard-on-codeine swagger of 'Men' -- are impressive enough to make this a worthy addition to any burgeoning doom collection." - Rock Sound

"The tension created by the arrangement of these seven pieces sets the listener up for an almost meditative experience, especially when combined with the right setting." - The Silent Ballet

"The night fog, the cold winds along with the infinite array of slow cars moving harmoniously combined to form a bleak image for which only Fowl is the perfect soundtrack." - Chronicles Of Chaos

"...darkness is the overwhelming texture of choice, with an inevitable release that can materialize in the form of Explosions in the Sky-esque guitar (‘Dust’), piston-like industrial stabs (‘Tyrant’), or a simple gnashing of instrumental teeth (‘Men’)." - Cyclic Defrost