RUSSIAN CIRCLES Empros – Vinyl LP (clear red silver magenta splatter)

Pressing info : 2024 repress on clear with red silver magenta splatter vinyl LP. Gatefold sleeve.

Russian Circles returns with a re-issue of their legendary album Empros complete with a redesigned, embossed gatefold jacket, now pressed on two new limited edition colors. Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009’s Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles’ Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection. Or, like a lone surviving wooly beast emerging from a brutal winter’s frost, Empros is the sound of a band shaking the ages from its shoulders with all the brutal force of a behemoth awakened.

Chicago trio Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date — but also with Empros they’re poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of genre. Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009’s Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles’ Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection.

Russian Circles is
Mike Sullivan, Brian Cook & David Turncrantz

CREDITS:
Produced by Brandon Curtis & Russian Circles
Engineered by Brandon Curtis & Mike Lust
Mixed by Brandon Curtis
Mastered by Joe Lambert / JLM
Recorded in Chicago at Phantom Manor Studios
Album Layout by Sonny Kay
Guitar by Mike Sullivan
Bass Guitar by Brian Cook
Drums by Dave Turncrantz
Accordian & Cello by Phil Karnatz
Vocals on Praise be Man by Brian Cook

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