American Heritage roars and rages on Sedentary, due out March 2011 via Translation Loss Records. The Chicago quartet’s new album steamrolls the senses with brash polyrhythmic riffs, vitriolic punk attitude and destructive seasick rhythms. “Sickening Rebellion” rolls with a calculated hardcore intensity, while “WWDHD” mounts from chugging ominous distortion into an epic metallic explosion. American Heritage preserve the abrasive amalgam of technicality and brutality they’re known for, while refining it.
You’ll feel the sonic gut punch of songs like “City of God” and “Sickening Rebellion,” which bruise, batter and bludgeon brilliantly. Without a full-time bass player during recording (Bocek joined the band post-recording), the band collaborated with a different musician for each song’s bass track. On the incendiary and invasive “Fetal Attraction,” Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher provides bass, a guitar solo and a little personal flare. Shellhamer laughs, “He does that ‘Eat my fuck’ thing at the end of the song. He went way overboard with the bass and guitar solo, and it was ripping.”
Other explosive playing comes from Black Cobra’s Rafa Martinez on “Morbid Angle” and Sanford Parker [Buried at Sea, Minsk] on “Vessels/Vassals”. The entire collection has become even more dynamically heavy as a result.
American Heritage will never cease pummeling, and Sedentary is proof.
credits
released 27 November 2012
Music by American Heritage : Adam Norden, Scott Shellhamer, Mike Duffy, Erik Bocek
Guest Musicians: Lon Hackett, Rick Leech, Leon del Muerte, Jon DeHart, Sanford Parker, Bill Kelliher, B.Sanders, Botchy Vasquez, Ray Donato, Erik Bocek, Josh Rosenthal, Rafa Martinez, Dallas Thomas, Jason Goldberg, Surachai Sutthisasanakul.
Recorded by Sanford Parker
Mastered by Collin Jordan
Artwork by Chris Eichenseer
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