Split release with Protagonist Music
From Louisiana’s capital city of Baton Rouge come Spiritiste, an occult-influenced emotional hardcore band. Spiritiste’s politically charged debut album, Excommunication Hymns, is a rage-filled effort that rallies against religious and political oppression, and reflects on the emotional trauma of trying to survive in the current fetid political climate/environment. Still, across these ten very expressive, cathartic tracks, the band does ultimately retain hope for a better world.
Sonically, Spiritiste have crafted a fresh, but identifiable, sound with dynamics that shift between steady and composed to chaotic sonic bedlam. Spiritiste draw upon core influences that include ’90s hardcore bands like Shotmaker and Portraits of Past, but also salute noise rock mainstays Jesus Lizard and Chat Pile, and contemporary screamo acts like State Faults, Habak, and Frail Body.
Recorded and produced by Matt Bear, and mastered by Alan Douches, Excommunication Hymns presents a fully realized vision out-of-the-gate and establishes a musical call-to-arms for those marginalized and traumatized by a deeply rooted authoritarian culture.
Track Listing:
Tumor
Sympathetic Resonance
Now I Am Become…
The Dead 3ravel Fast
Children Of Kali
Transagion Prayer
Samsara Would Be Easier
Throwing Stones
In Memory Of The Occultural Engineers
A Sheep’s Last Defense
Pressing Information:
5 test presses with screen printed jackets
100 natural with black smoke
100 blackberry
100 black (15 with exclusive Limited To One Record Store variant packaging)