Excide Drop New Album “Bastard Hymns” & Visualizer For ‘Down In The Mouth’

North Carolina’s genre-warping heavy hitters EXCIDE have unleashed their highly anticipated sophomore album Bastard Hymns, out now via SharpTone Records.

Alongside the release, the band have dropped a brand new visualizer for “Down in the Mouth”, another taste of the record’s gritty sonic world.

“Our perspective on the range that exists within genre and emotion. A record for the low, fighting the urge to go lower. We hope this finds you where you need it most,” the band shares.

Bastard Hymns marks a significant evolution from the band’s debut Deliberate Revolver, pushing deeper into murkier, more experimental territory while staying rooted in the raw aggression that put them on the map.

The band describe the creative freedom behind the record: “Having felt like we accomplished what we came to do on the first record, there were no guidelines or barriers around where we were to go next. This opened up so many avenues for our creativity and exploration. We were lucky enough to begin working with SharpTone the following year, which put the band back in gear and opened up new possibilities for the path forward.”

Sonically, the band was inspired by the grooves and energy of late ’90s post-hardcore bands such as Cast Iron Hike and Snapcase, while siphoning melody and textural elements much the same as Quicksand and Cave In. The band was not afraid to shift gears a bit and take influence from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden, and Failure, which, EXCIDE admit, ” allowed us to really push the sonic needle into uncharted territory, even further accentuated by Austin Coupe’s co-writing and production.”

The result? A “fuzzy, rocky, groovy, angry record… seeped in the woes of growing up in a hillbilly hellscape, and living to tell the tale.”