Iceburn announce new album ‘Asclepius’
ICEBURN have announced a new album!
Titled Asclepius, the upcoming album from the Salt Lake City-based genre-bending collective is their first album in over twenty years and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Southern Lord.
The upcoming album was recorded and engineered by Andy Patterson [SUBROSA, INVDRS, INSECT ARK, THE OTOLITH] a collaborator also for guitarist/vocalist/composer Gentry Densley‘s other band’s EAGLE TWIN and ASCEND.
Speaking about the upcoming album, guitarist/vocalist/composer Gentry Densley says, “ICEBURN had always been about progressing and pushing the boundaries, pushing the music ahead of ourselves so we had to work to catch up. This new record comes from a place of rediscovery of who we are deep down, a place that with all it’s challenges and comforts, ultimately feels like home. In recent years ICEBURN basically became four friends hanging out and working on music. After all going in different directions for so many years we found ways to embrace our earliest influences and the foundations of our musical selves. We basically cycled back to the way we made music in our heyday, our salad days, and it felt right once again.”
The upcoming album is comprised two long-form tracks, Healing The Ouroboros and Dahlia Rides the Firebird, the latter is based on an old traditional Greek tune. With some members majoring in classics/philosophy, music/composition and studying ethnomusicology – classic mythology has always been a key reference point for the themes of their music. That the new record is named after the god of healing and medicine and arriving at this moment in time is coincidence, as the band comments, “it felt like we needed healing even before this pandemic hit.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Healing The Ouroboros
2. Dahlia Rides the Firebird
Asclepius is set for release on June 25th via Southern Lord. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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