Brazilian heavy psych/doom metal band Spiral Guru released their new EP »Silenced Voices« via Abraxas Records

Brazilian heavy psych/doom metal band Spiral Guru is back with their new four-track EP, »Silenced Voices«, which was just released on February 8th, 2024 via Abraxas Records.

Listen to »Silenced Voices« EP on Spotify and other streaming platforms!

Tracklist:
01. I, Machine
02. Silenced Voices
03. Caves And Graves
04. The Cabin Man

Spiral Guru is a Brazilian band formed in 2013 playing anything that they feel like… space rock, heavy psych, doom metal. The band actually don’t mind much about labeling their songs, as they prefer to be free to try different sonorities. Their lyrics depict their visions of a lot of things, mostly using science fiction as a backdrop.

About »Silenced Voices«, the band states: “We were really excited to write new music for a brand new project, and then the Covid-19 pandemic hit.

We would not only have new compositions ahead of us, but we would be facing a completely new scenario, which devastated the world and which was extremely terrible in our country; Brazil had one of the worst mortality rates in this pandemic. We needed to reinvent ourselves, and it was music that helped us face this sad scenario made worse by a government that spread misinformation and intensified hate speech, especially towards minorities and the scientific class.

We wrote from a distance, each in his or her own home. Usually our creative work happens in rehearsals: we experimented with different sounds together, we played the songs for a while in rehearsals before we actually went into the studio, but that wasn’t possible! Online meeting tools were foreign to us and we had to learn to compose in a totally different way for the EP »Silenced Voices«.

Photo by Renato Petean Marino

There were many audios recorded on cell phones, shared folders on Google Drive, and many text messages for the songs to take shape!

We went separately to the studio to record the first versions and then to record the final lines. Franco Torrezan helped us a lot in this process, as he was the only person we physically met and who knew all the work in progress. We are very grateful for this partnership with Casarão Music Studio! When the pandemic showed signs of improvement, we finally got together to follow the mix.

For a while we even thought about re-recording some voices and instruments. We decided not to! The songs, as they were, represented the time to which they belonged; they had the sound of our resilience. For this reason, some people who follow our work may feel differences in relation to »Void«.

In that same period, completing the whirlwind of changes and adversities, José Ribeiro (bassist) lost his parents and we saw the arrival of a new life, the first son of Samuel Pedrosa (guitarist). Therefore, these songs are dedicated to the dear people who left us and in gratitude for having new chances ahead.”

Recording credits:
Percussions on »The Cabin Man« by Edu Vianna.
Produced by Spiral Guru.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Franco Torrezan at Casarão Music Studio in Piracicaba/Brazil.

Photographs by Renato Petean Marino.
Cover art by Sarah Hudson.
Released by Abraxas Records.

Line-up:
Andrea Ruocco – Vocals
Samuel Pedrosa – Guitars
José Ribeiro – Bass
Alexandre H. G. Garcia – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well