PYRRHON: Progressive Death Metal Collective To Unleash Relapse Debut; Scathing New Teaser Track Posted + Live Assaults Confirmed

New York City progressive death metal collective and recent Relapse signees, PYRRHON (pronounced peer-on), emerge from the urban decay with a nightmarish offering of physically and psychologically mauling extreme metal. Titled The Mother Of Virtues, the band's sophomore full-length is a mind-bending fusion of clanging death metal, surreal psychedelia, dark jazz rhythms and delirious storytelling. Recorded with Ryan Jones (Today Is The Day, Mutilation Rites) and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice), the nine tracks comprising The Mother Of Virtues takes its listener on a harrowing journey into the darkest corners of musical severity. Recommended for demented souls who worship at the altars of Gorguts, Ulcerate, Cryptopsy, Portal, Deathspell Omega, Today Is The Day and the like.

Elaborates vocalist Doug Moore: "We focused on capturing an organic, spontaneous sound on this album. Consequently, we tracked most of the album live; most of its quieter moments and solo breaks are partially or entirely improvised. We like to let the chips fall where they may."

Sear your ears with teaser track "Balkanized," currently streaming via Soundcloud.

The Mother Of Virtues Track Listing:

1. The Oracle of Nassau

2. White Flag

3. Sleeper Agent

4. Balkanized

5. Eternity in a Breath

6. Implant Fever

7. Invisible Injury

8. The Parasite in Winter

9. The Mother of Virtues

In related news, PYRRHON will bring their odes of crudeness to the streets next month on a near-two-week run of live assaults. Slated to embark on March 7th in Richmond, Virginia, the journey includes a pair of appearances at this year's edition of SXSW in Austin and will come to a close in Brooklyn, New York on March 28th. The band will be joined by hometown avant brutalizers, Psalm Zero.

PYRRHON Live Assaults 2014:

3/07/2014 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA

3/08/2014 The Spring Water - Nashville, TN

3/09/2014 TBA - New Orleans, LA

3/11/2014 SXSW - Austin, TX

3/12/2014 SXSW - Austin, TX

3/14/2014 TBA

3/15/2014 Skihouse - Carbondale, IL

3/16/2014 Fubar - St. Louis, MO

3/18/2014 Cobra Lounge - Chicago, IL

3/19/2014 Berkley Front - Berkley, MI

3/20/2014 Smiling Moose - Pittsburgh, PA

3/28/2014 Trans Pecos - Brooklyn, NY

The follow up to 2011's critically-adored An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master, The Mother Of Virtues will be unleashed on CD, LP and digitally in North America via Relapse Records on April 1st,Germany/Finland/Benelux on March 28th and UK/World on March 31st.

Preorder your copy at THIS LOCATION.

PYRRHON Personnel: 

Dylan DiLella - Guitar

Erik Malave - Bass

Alex Cohen - Drums

Doug Moore - Vocals

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PYRRHON: Album Streaming At Invisible Oranges

Band To Play Brooklyn Record Release Show This Week.

New York City-based tech-death outfit PYRRHON's debut full-length, An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master, is streaming in its entirety courtesy of Invisible Oranges now. Check it out at this location.

PYRRHON have also confirmed several local live appearances for the coming weeks, including a record release show in Brooklyn this Thursday, September 22nd, and a special all-covers Precious Metal show in Manhattan on Halloween night.

PYRRHON Live Actions:

9/22/2011 The Charleston - Brooklyn, NY - record release show w/ Cleric, Phthisis

10/09/2011 The Acheron - Brooklyn, NY w/ Wake, Praetura, Pyrrhon, Nailed Shut

10/31/2011 Lit Lounge - New York, NY

A nightmarish blend of clanging death metal with surreal psychedelic elements, jazz rhythms, and delirious storytelling, PYRRHON's An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master features 45 minutes of crushing, modern death metal, recorded by Dan Pilla at Bad Lab Studios and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Krallice). Following an initial, limited self-release of the album by the band earlier this year, Selfmadegod Records' official worldwide re-release of the album is now available for North American preorder here and worldwide here.

Stay tuned for live updates and much more from PYRRHON in the weeks ahead. 

"I’m thinking of beautiful grotesqueries like later Gorguts – a huge influence here – Morbid Angel ‘93 -’98, early Willowtip catalogue, and Nader Sadek’s record from this year. I’m thinking of words like “gelatinous” and “viscera.” And I’m thinking of New York." - Invisible Oranges

"While there are moments on the album where the only purpose is to play a megaton of scatter-shot notes, Pyrrhon sidesteps a majority of the usual knocks against the genre." - Metal Underground

"...an impressive effort, composed of rich, intelligent material - brains as well as brawn." - About.com

"...on repeated listens I began to find a creepy, unsettling beauty to the dissonant, spaced out parts that really throw the listener off guard." - Metal  Crypt

"...provides the listener with more than enough evidence proving the case for the growth potential death metal still has." - MetalReview

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PYRRHON: Selfmadegod Records To Re-Release Debut Album From NYC Death Unit

Selfmadegod Records today announce that the label will re-release the debut album from New York City-based death metal outfitPYRRHON late this August. 

A nightmarish blend of clanging death metal with surreal psychedelic elements, jazz rhythms, and delirious storytelling, An Excellent Servant But A Terrible Master features 45 minutes of crushing, modern death metal from this promising young act. Recorded by Dan Pilla at Bad Lab Studios in Tabernacle, New Jersey in early 2011, and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Dysrhythmia, Krallice) at The Thousand Caves Studios in Queens, New York, the cover art and layout created by Caroline Harrison, and the completed album self-released by PYRRHON directly. This August, Polish record label Selfmadegod will officially reissue the album with proper distribution and promotion worldwide. An official street date will be announced shortly.

 

An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master Track Listing:

1. New Parasite
2. Glossolalian
3. Idiot Circles
4. Correcting a Mistake
5. Gamma Knife
6. The Architect Confesses (Spittlestrand Hair)
7. Flesh Isolation Chamber
8. A Terrible Master

 

PYRRHON formed in 2008 after a chance meeting on a subway platform, and have been honing their increasingly twisted take on the genre ever since. Their debut EP, Fever Kingdoms, was released by The Path Less Traveled Records in October 2010, and has consistently received laudatory reviews. Since their formation PYRRHON has gigged extensively in the greater New York City area and has shared the stage with Misery Index, Evoken, Liturgy, Cannabis Corpse, Creative Waste, The Binary Code, Gloominous Doom, Criminal Element, The Communion, Hung, Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire, Humanity Falls, Flourishing, Three Faces of Eve, Questioner, Abdicate and more.

 

Stay tuned for further developments, updated live appearances and promo/coverage info on PYRRHON and the upcoming reissue of An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master in the weeks ahead.

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