Immortal Bird Release Sin Querencia Full-Length
Sin Querencia, the latest full-length from Chicago’s most uniquely harrowing, technically ferocious chaos unit, Immortal Bird, is currently streaming in its entirety! Immortal Bird’s 2019-released Thrive On Neglect LP saw the band maneuvering through an amalgam of sounds, blossoming into a warped and angular display of multi-layered anguish that now serves as a springboard for further expansion on the new album, Sin Querencia. Abandoning genre constraints, Immortal Bird coherently fuses elements of death and black metal, hardcore tumult, a dose of their city’s noise rock agitation, and a compositional complexity that recalls stalwart boundary-pushers like Gorguts and Ulcerate. Recording as a trio on Sin Querencia, guitarist Nate Madden recorded most of the bass along with multi-instrumentalist bandmates Rae Amitay and Matt Korajczyk. The trio has evolved their collaboration to forge a cacophonous maelstrom of jagged metal intricacy with surgical clarity, seeing the combination of Madden on guitar and Korajczyk on drums at its most centered and engaging.
Amitay gives another heart-rending and diverse vocal performance over the frenzied tempest the band lays down, riven with a focused and energized hostility. They also utilize dulcet and haunting layers of clean vocals on the opening track, “Bioluminescent Toxins,” in a quieter moment, demonstrating the band’s dynamic abilities and desire to broaden their sonic horizons. Amitay’s thought-provoking lyrical range weaves through visceral subject matter, threading together allegory and allusion in vehement admonishments of hypocrisy, as well as confronting our brutal complicity and complacency in our current reality.
Notes Decibel Magazine, “Every song has its own internal logic and never takes a heel turn that feels like a superfluous parlor trick. The fact that Sin Querencia also manages to be absurdly catchy defies conventional wisdom as it pertains to what an album this extreme can be.” Stereogum concurs, “In their eleventh year, the Chicago three-piece continues to set the bar for big, bruising, intricate, and deep-feeling blackened metal, and in Sin Querencia they have put together a work as layered and captivating as the human mind.”
Stream Immortal Bird’s Sin Querencia here.
Featuring aggressively muscular engineering, recording, and mixing from Pete Grossmann of Chicago’s Bricktop Recording (Harm’s Way, Weekend Nachos, Mouth For War), the thunderous mastering work of Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Obituary, Nails, Full Of Hell), and completed with cover art by the band’s longtime artist of choice, Kikyz1313, and layout and design by Eddie Limperis, Sin Querencia marks a new milestone in Immortal Bird’s now decade-plus-year history as their most structurally extreme and wide-ranging performance to date.
20 Buck Spin will release Sin Querencia on LP, CD, and digitally. Order at the label webshop and Bandcamp.
Fans of Krallice, Inter Arma, Pyrrhon, Full Of Hell, Converge, Thantifaxath, Tomb Mold, and Yellow Eyes, pay heed.
Sin Querencia Track Listing:
1. Bioluminescent Toxins
2. Plastered Sainthood
3. Consanguinity
4. Propagandized
5. Ocean Endless
6. Synthetic Alliances
7. Contrarian Companions
8. Sin Querencia
Having toured with a wide spectrum of extreme acts over the years, including having been selected to open for Emperor in Chicago in 2023, Immortal Bird is planning widespread touring in the months ahead and throughout next year – stay tuned.
Lineup:
Rae Amitay – vocals, keys, synth
Matt Korajczyk – drums
Nate Madden – guitar, bass
