Unsung atmospheric post-sludge metal sorcerers, NORTH, are preparing to unleash the ethereal rumblings of their Metanoia 12” EP.

Recorded and mixed by Dana Fehr Wavelab Studios in Tucson, Arizona with additional engineering by Chris Shultz and mastering by James Plotkin (OLD, Scorn, Khanate, Khlyst), the follow-up to the Arizona trio’s critically adored, 2012-released, The Great Silence full-length, which Decibel commended for its “wall of crushing, psychedelia-tinged post-Neur-Isis mania” and Scene Point Blank dubbed “strikingly beautiful and deeply satisfying,” bears four sprawling tracks of thick, syrupy riff cascades, graveled vocal swells, epic climaxes and a gistly, otherworldy atmosphere.

Elaborates guitarist Matthew Mutterperl of the compelling offering, “Metanoia is defined as ‘a change in one life’s resulting from penitence or spiritual conversion.’ Since our last LP, we’ve dealt with internal struggles that possibly could have stalled or stopped us completely, but there was a conscious effort. There were a series of moments where things changed, and where we needed to go, what we needed to do, and who we needed to be felt markedly different. This record is evidence of that; a preview of a newfound sense of being in a band, making music, and building complex relationships with good people for almost nine years. To me, the record couldn’t have had any other title. It was the most appropriate.”

Adds drummer Zachary Hansen, “The Great Silence was such a monumental opus and a task that we had to get off our chest after years of suffering, this record was the opposite really. We went into the brief writing process with the intention of getting a collection of quality tracks and then putting them the tracks out ourselves. Member turmoil and turnover be damned, this was getting done and we were going back out on the road, which is such an integral piece of this band. We could have easily messed around for a few more months and added another track or two, threw on some interludes and called it a full-length, but we wanted to show the real progression of a band coming off a massive release and prepping for another one in the near future. This is the transition EP, it’s incredibly important to us in that aspect and hopefully will dictate to people that this band isn’t going away for three years again. In many ways it’s a coming out party. To borrow from Refused, this is the shape of NORTH to come.”


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Zachary Reid is the eponymous pseudonym used by ambient producer and composer Zack Hansen, also know as a founding member and drummer of Tucson based doom monsters North (Prosthetic Records), and grind band Languish (Battleground Records/Crown and Throne Inc). 

What started as pure noise on his end, a cacophony of misplaced notes played out painstakingly on a darkened computer keyboard. The outlet for stifled creativity and frustration with all music eventually turned into something more. Actual music.

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Ambient/drone/noise artist Zack Hansen from Tucson, AZ.

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