MAGGOT BRAIN "ILLUMINE"

Long regarded as one of the area’s heaviest and most engaging bands, Albany, NY based Maggot Brain are set to release the long awaited follow up to their 2012 LP Stop and Breathe. Their new album titled Illumine, drops on Nov 6, 2020 digitally and on vinyl via Fuzz Records and finds the band navigating a sonic landscape that extends well beyond the typical borders of hardcore and metal. With Illumine, Maggot Brain deliver a painstakingly and meticulously constructed set of songs that explore the liminal spaces between trauma, catharsis, and re-emergence. The band brings the listener through cycles of crushing turbulence that dissolve into passages of calm and even euphoria. Principal songwriter Ryan Slowey engineered and produced the record and describes the thematic arc of Illumine this way: “...the image and metaphor of a flower blooming through concrete. The perseverance and strength that would require something so delicate to achieve. There's a line in "Spiraling" that says "like