After another session copulating into existence its latest batch of scathing buzzsaw riffery, Portland’s ravenous vermin RABBITS has completed its new noise. Bites Rites will invade the human population in the final days of Summer 2012, a release guaranteed to scurry more shit into your life than the loved/loathed 2011-released Relapse Records debut Lower Forms.
RABBITS’ latest intoxicated orgy of adrenalized lagomorphic chaos will see release this September via a recent infestation of Good To Die Records. On Bites Rites this obligate nasal-breathing collective of rhythm morticians -- drummer KG and guitarists/vocalists Sethro and Booze -- ravenously gnaw through nine tracks, including demented covers of Spacemen 3's “2:35” and Husker Du's “What's Going On.” Yes, a Butthole Surfers, Melvins, Unsane or Buzzov*en reference may scuttle forth during the sonic bombardment of Bites Rites, yet a thoroughbred uniqueness abounds within each segment. Bites Rites was recorded and mixed by Fester at Haywire Studios, Portland, (Wizard Rifle, Atriarch, Nux Vomica) and mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering, Portland (Agalloch, Muslimgauze, Fishbone), with cover art by Sacramento artist Skinner (author of Every Man Is My Enemy) and drawings and titles by Portland artist Kevin Abell (co-editor of Nudity in Groups). Bites Rites will be released on 180-gram LP with included digital download delivery via Good To Die Records on September 18th.
Check out the cover art and more new RABBIT shit below.
An arsenal of U.S. tour dates will be announced shortly. For now locals can catch them raging in Portland alongside YOB, Thrones, Drunk Dad, as well as labelmates Gaytheist, Monogamy Party and more over the coming weeks.
RABBITS shows:
9/02/2012 Plan B - Portland, OR @ Sizzlefest [benefit] w/ YOB, Thrones, many more [info]
9/08/2012 Tube [matinee] - Portland, OR w/ Fist Fite, Gaytheist, IX
9/28/2012 Slabtown - Portland, OR (RECORD RELEASE SHOW) w/ Hot Victory, Walls, Towers
What to do about this RABBITS problem?
We last heard from Portland's “noizefuck crew” [1000 Times Yes] with their first full-length LP, Lower Forms, “a thing of cracked-out, violent beauty” [Portland Mercury], “totally absurd... in the best possible way” [A.V. Club], and “everything I could possibly hate about a record rolled into one and then served on a piece of shit” [Angry Metal Guy]. To be fair to all, All Music Guide said “in time, one could see this making a lot more sense.”
RABBITS, however, prefers to make more non-sense. How else to explain the necessity of using multi-hyphenated permutations of punk, sludge, hardcore, thrash, noise, rock, and metal to describe RABBITS? Can this trio's casual disregard for all that is genre-proper be explained by anything more than ignorance, negligence, or downright maliciousness? Perhaps...
BITES RITES, the new record on Good To Die Records opens a deep portal into the mind of the superorganism that is RABBITS. And something in that mind is not right. Like many that came before them, with overnight success and worldwide fame came parties, booze, drugs, strippers, and the predictable descent into bitterness, jealousy, paranoia, and eventual madness. The toll taken is obvious in both the sound and substance of the new record. In a haze of booze and drugs RABBITS descended down into a Felony Flats basement with someone named Fester to ratchet up the sonic insanity and emerged with a platter of grisly fried guitars, machines-gone-awry drums (still no bass—how is it so HEAVY?!), and the vocals of a deranged lunatic backed by a Family-spawned youth crew. Long gone are the philosophical and scientific musings on man's place in the universe found on Lower Forms; it's now man against man, us against them, me against you.
And yet, the songs on BITES RITES are catchy! Listen and you may find yourself singing “LAME!” next time you run into your arch nemesis at a party, as you realize, “It is how much you suck it or how much you blow.” See if you can fight the unrelenting riff and roll of “Fight Right.” Don't be surprised when “Meth Valley 99”—a re-imagined Sonic Youth / Lydia Lunch classic with the lovely and dangerous Jonnie Monroe of Fist Fite as the female foil—makes you want to hit that pipe again.
Plus... RABBITS wears its not-metal hearts on its sleeves with demented covers of Spacemen 3's “2:35” and Husker Du's “What's Going On.” Maybe BITES RITES doesn't make exactly clear what's going on inside its head, but you may just want to follow RABBITS to the zoo anyway. [JH]
We last heard from Portland's “noizefuck crew” [1000 Times Yes] with their first full-length LP, Lower Forms, “a thing of cracked-out, violent beauty” [Portland Mercury], “totally absurd... in the best possible way” [A.V. Club], and “everything I could possibly hate about a record rolled into one and then served on a piece of shit” [Angry Metal Guy]. To be fair to all, All Music Guide said “in time, one could see this making a lot more sense.”
RABBITS, however, prefers to make more non-sense. How else to explain the necessity of using multi-hyphenated permutations of punk, sludge, hardcore, thrash, noise, rock, and metal to describe RABBITS? Can this trio's casual disregard for all that is genre-proper be explained by anything more than ignorance, negligence, or downright maliciousness? Perhaps...
BITES RITES, the new record on Good To Die Records opens a deep portal into the mind of the superorganism that is RABBITS. And something in that mind is not right. Like many that came before them, with overnight success and worldwide fame came parties, booze, drugs, strippers, and the predictable descent into bitterness, jealousy, paranoia, and eventual madness. The toll taken is obvious in both the sound and substance of the new record. In a haze of booze and drugs RABBITS descended down into a Felony Flats basement with someone named Fester to ratchet up the sonic insanity and emerged with a platter of grisly fried guitars, machines-gone-awry drums (still no bass—how is it so HEAVY?!), and the vocals of a deranged lunatic backed by a Family-spawned youth crew. Long gone are the philosophical and scientific musings on man's place in the universe found on Lower Forms; it's now man against man, us against them, me against you.
And yet, the songs on BITES RITES are catchy! Listen and you may find yourself singing “LAME!” next time you run into your arch nemesis at a party, as you realize, “It is how much you suck it or how much you blow.” See if you can fight the unrelenting riff and roll of “Fight Right.” Don't be surprised when “Meth Valley 99”—a re-imagined Sonic Youth / Lydia Lunch classic with the lovely and dangerous Jonnie Monroe of Fist Fite as the female foil—makes you want to hit that pipe again.
Plus... RABBITS wears its not-metal hearts on its sleeves with demented covers of Spacemen 3's “2:35” and Husker Du's “What's Going On.” Maybe BITES RITES doesn't make exactly clear what's going on inside its head, but you may just want to follow RABBITS to the zoo anyway. [JH]
Bites Rites Track Listing:
a1. We and Zoo
a2. Fight Right
a3. Lame in Vain
a4. Move Her Body
a5. Meth Valley 99
b1. 2:35
b2. Suck It or Blow
b3. On Mars II
b4. What's Going On
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Good to Die RecordsRelease: 18 September 2012
Experience Bites Rites’ fifth track "Meth Valley 99" where RABBITS joins a mess of other Good To Die artists via a digital comp the label recently released.
Experience Bites Rites’ fifth track "Meth Valley 99" where RABBITS joins a mess of other Good To Die artists via a digital comp the label recently released.
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| goodtodierecords.bandcamp.2012-compilation |
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