Black Arcs Rising

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1.	Underground 02:58	buy track
2.	Chemicals 02:56	buy track
3.	Sardonic Grin 02:18	buy track
4.	Agony 02:04 video	buy track
5.	Phantasm 02:04	buy track
6.	Eyes In The Sky 04:10	buy track
7.	Hiding In A Hole 01:23	buy track
8.	Meteorology 02:34	buy track
9.	Dead Of Summer 02:14 video	buy track
10.	Epochalypse 03:08	buy track
11.	Perfect Storm 02:23	buy track
12.	Bestiary Man 04:07	buy track

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”Black Arcs Rising” is the third studio album by Swedish rock trio Statues. Recorded at Svenska grammofonstudion in Gothenburg, this 12 track full-length release brings back the imperishable soundscapes of 90’s alternative rock while showcasing Statues’ melodic, direct, and intense approach to songwriting. ”Black Arcs Rising” is produced and mixed by Christian Ramirez who also adds additional guitar on the tracks ”Perfect Storm”, ”Sardonic Grin”, and ”Eyes in the Sky”, and mastered by Magnus Lindberg. The album features guest vocals by Per Stålberg on ”Phantasm”, ”Dead of Summer”, and ”Hiding in a Hole”, and art direction by Joel Dunkels. As with Statues 2020 album ”Holocene”, ”Black Arcs Rising” is released by Swedish independent label Lövely Records.

Statues on the new album “Black Arcs Rising”::
We recorded the album in the Swedish gramophone studio in Gothenburg. The time before we got some kind of hubris and recorded 20 songs, but ended up with 12. We worked non-stop the entire studio time of 5 days and ate, slept and showered with the instruments. Johan triggered the alarm the first thing he did and a microwave oven and an amplifier caught fire. The Cat People soundtrack and Neu went hot on the stereo.

The title warns of worse times. Black Arcs can be seen in a chart, but it can also mean that there are black arcs rising from the ground that warn of worse times. Our texts are often prophetic by accident. The last record, Holocene, had a song called Lockdown and then came the pandemic. The lyrics are as usual of the darker kind, but there is also a kind of black humor in the absurdity described. If you do it wrong, things will go to hell and therefore it must be warned about the madness that exists. It may already be too late to save the world as the doomsday clock is close to midnight, but by pointing to the absurdities of environmental destruction, consumerism, capitalism, the annexation of other countries and an unwillingness to change behavior, we are doing what we can to encourage change.

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released May 5, 2023

Recorded at Svenska grammofonstudion in Gothenburg, with producer Christian Ramirez (Park Hotell, Dödsfest, Mattias Alkberg BD).

Mastered by Magnus Lindberg (The Hellacopters, Tribulation, Henrik Palm, Refused, Stiu Nu Stiu, Cult Of Luna, and many more).

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Statues Umeå, Sweden

”In music it’s a rare balance to successfully blend politics and fun, aggression with melody. Drawing on some of my fave post-punk influences and classic rock grooves, Statues debut Adult Lobotomy walks a line like Phillippe Petit across the sky between Twin Towers, gracefully subversive.” /Walter Schreifels (Quicksand, Rival Schools, Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits) ... more

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