Earthless ‎– Black Heaven – New Vinyl Lp 2018 Nuclear Blast Pressing on ‘Yellow with Green Splatter’ Vinyl with Gatefold Jacket (Limited to 500!) – Heavy Psych Rock WEA

Street Date: 3/16/18

EARTHLESS has a surprise for you. Whereas the band’s three previous albums featured anywhere from two to four completely instrumental space rock jams, the California trio’s fourth and latest, »Black Heaven«, is nothing like that. “It’s quite different,” drummer Mario Rubalcaba says with a laugh. “It has six songs, and most importantly it has vocals on about 70 percent of the record. There goes being pigeonholed as an instrumental band, I guess…”

Though dedicated fans doubtlessly heard EARTHLESS guitarist Isaiah Mitchell lend his soulful pipes to the band’s righteous cover of the GROUNDHOGS’ ‘Cherry Red’ on the CD bonus track of 2005’s »Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky«, they haven’t heard him – or EARTHLESS – quite like this. Of »Black Heaven«’s six tracks, only two are instrumental. And one of those instrumentals is less than two minutes long. “It wasn’t a premeditated thing to do a record with vocals,” Rubalcaba explains. “On the older records, Mike was responsible for a lot of the riffs that would start these jams, but on this one Isaiah really brought his own pizazz and flavor to it. I’d say that’s one of the major differences on this album: It has more of Isaiah’s input. He took a risk bringing these ideas to us, not knowing if we’d like them. But as with everything we’ve done in the past, it felt very organic and natural.”

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