In a press release, singer Alex Herrera says: But they’ve shared the new song “Spectral Forge,” and it’s a truly nasty piece of sludgy lo-fi hardcore death-metal. (That’s a Gulch-ass title.) Spinebreaker still has a lineup full of heavy hitters, including three guitarists: Elliot Morrow, Cole Kakimoto, and Dead Heat’s Justin Ton. Next month, Spinebreaker will release their new six-song EP Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition. I’d seen that Spinebreaker had gotten back to playing shows in the past year, but it was still a very cool surprise when I got the Bandcamp notification this morning that there’s a new Spinebreaker record on the way. Spinebreaker released one album, 2016’s Ice Grave, and they followed it with a promo tape in 2019. Morrow played guitar in Spinebreaker, and current Sunami frontman Josef Alfonso played bass. Before that band got together and took off, frontman Elliot Morrow and guitarist Cole Kakimoto were both in Spinebreaker, a San Jose band that played death metal with a hardcore edge. They went out on top.īut there was a story before Gulch. Last year, Gulch headlined the Sound And Fury festival, the largest North American hardcore fest in history. Gulch dropped one album and a few stray releases, and then they announced their impending breakup. Their live show was famously intense, but they became even bigger during the pandemic, when they couldn’t play those shows. They quickly became the toast of the hardcore world. Gulch came ripping out of San Jose, bringing a frantic, chaotic, confrontational sound and carrying themselves like post-apocalyptic warrior urchins. The story of Gulch was an amazing hardcore myth, and it got a beautiful storybook ending.
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