Sandrider: The Obelisk streams »Enveletration« in its entirety; full-length from Seattle-based loud rock trio to see release this Friday on Satanik Royalty Records
Seattle, Washington based loud rock trio Sandrider premiere their fourth full-length album »Enveletration« in full exclusively at The Obelisk!
»Enveletration« will be released this Friday, March 3rd, 2023 via Satanik Royalty Records.
Tracklist:
01. Alia
02. Enveletration
03. Circles
04. Tourniquet
05. Weasel
06. Slumber
07. Proteus
08. Priest
09. Ixian
10. Grouper
Courtesy of Earsplit PR:
“This sort of record doesn’t come around every year.” — The Obelisk
The Obelisk is currently streaming »Enveletration«, the new studio offering from Seattle-based loud rock trio Sandrider, in its entirety! The premiere comes in advance of the record’s official digital unveiling this Friday, March 3rd via Satanik Royalty Records.
With a primal combination of monstrously exultant riffs, soaring guitar solos, and catchy, triumphant choruses created by guitarist/vocalist Jon Weisnewski (Akimbo, Nuclear Dudes), bassist Jesse Roberts (The Ruby Doe, Kid Congo Powers, Old Iron), and drummer Nat Damm (Akimbo, Head Like A Kite, Automaton, Tight Bros From Way Back When), Sandrider sounds like the soundtrack to victory. But as evidenced by many of the lyrics on »Enveletration«, Sandrider’s brand of victory is a defiant one – wherein fun is an act of cathartic resistance and escape. Under the album’s layers of metaphor and amplifier feedback, you will find themes of political anger and modern malaise.
Photos by John Malley
Elaborates The Obelisk, “Because it’s been a few years… and because its component songs hit with such a jolt, it’s tempting to think of »Enveletration« as a moment of arrival for Sandrider, but this is an oversimplification of what they accomplish in bridging ferocity and purpose. The truth is that among the four, there hasn’t been an album yet that hasn’t felt like or actually been a landmark for them upon its arrival, and whether one regards Sandrider as stewards of West Coast noise more generally, the inheritors of a pedigree of unhinged-sounding, tonally weighted hardcore, or the most uptempo doom band e’er to walk the earth, they are definitively in a place of their own. »Enveletration« is a wonder to be explored, engaged with, and appreciated; a miracle of the everyday that doesn’t come along every day.”
Read more and stream Sandrider’s »Enveletration« exclusively at The Obelisk at THIS LOCATION.
Recorded at Litho Studios in Seattle by Matt Bayles (Soundgarden, Mastodon, Botch), »Enveletration« proves that Sandrider’s adrenaline-charged fun and unconquerable spirit is yet again a sonic refuge where you’re temporarily invincible. Across its ten tracks, the record captures the utter relief the three members of Sandrider felt when returning to the practice space for the first time after a year of early-pandemic isolation and anxiety. The experience of waking their stacks of amplifiers from their dormancy, feeling the drums rattle their chests and the bass vibrate through the floor, and reveling in the indescribably euphoric return to writing music together in person is palpable. The end result is a nod to Seattle heavy-rock forefathers Soundgarden with their “break my rusty cage and run” attitude, mixed with the unrelenting, stage dive-off-the-bar energy of Refused and noisy noodling of Hot Snakes.
»Enveletration« will be released on Satanik Royalty Records – who recently reissued Sandrider’s first two full-length albums, Sandrider and Godhead – digitally on March 3rd with a limited vinyl edition to follow on March 17th.
Find digital pre-orders at THIS LOCATION. Find physical pre-orders at THIS LOCATION.
Sandrider will play a special hometown record release show on April 8th with additional shows to be announced in the coming weeks.
Sandrider:
4/08/2023 Sunset Tavern – Seattle, WA *»Enveletration« Record Release Show w/ Dark Meditation, Museum Of Light
“»Enveletration« is just the top shelf of loud rock just as ready for the stereo as it is for the stage. Not a single song dips below greatness, and even when things are a bit softer and slower, there’s a constant propulsion forward, a progression that’s undeniably infectious and invigorating… »Enveletration« is a signal of triumph, of victory indeed, and a reminder that sometimes simplicity carries the most value.” – Everything Is Noise
Sandrider is:
Nat Damm – Drums
Jesse Roberts – Bass, Vocals
Jon Weisnewski – Guitar, Vocals
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well