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Cokegoat & Barren Heir - Sunshine/Tracing Light (2018) Progressive Sludge/Doom Metal, Sludge/Doom Metal/Post-Metal

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Cokegoat and Barren Heir Stream Entire New Split

Chicago sludge metal bands COKEGOAT and BARREN HEIR are streaming the entirety of their new split album over at Doomed and Stoned. The album consists of the four-part "Sunshine" by Cokegoat and two-part "Tracing Light" by Barren Heir.

Chicago sludge metal bands COKEGOAT and BARREN HEIR are streaming the entirety of their new split album over at Doomed and Stoned. The album consists of the four-part “Sunshine” by Cokegoat and two-part “Tracing Light” by Barren Heir.

The site commented “Taken as a whole, both sides of the new split represent an impressive compliment to one another and could convincingly be regarded as…

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Cokegoat & Barren Heir Share Colossal Journey in New 12″ Split

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

I love it when we get to share something with you that feels truly massive, monumental, mammoth...you know, the many ways we try to say something is BIG.   I'm talking the new collaboration by COKEGOAT and BARREN HEIR, who this weekend will unveil their ambitious long-play split, 'Sunshine/Tracing Light' (2018). I trust those are new names to many of our readers, but if you're following the plot this far it's because you're an adventurous soul who likes making surprising new discoveries. Me, too! That's why I'm excited to bring you the latest offering from two bands I got to know while immersing myself in the Chicago scene during last year's Doomed & Stoned in Chicago compilation and this year's Chicago Doomed & Stoned Fest.

Cokegoat had me fooled by name alone. I thought, "Okay, this is another one of those sleazy Dopethrone types" -- a flavor of sludge I've come to savor in its own right. Instead, what I encountered was a six-member (!) crew that at left me searching for my words, a band that straddles the boundaries of possibility. Initially, Cokegoat have us dropping our guard with an introduction that signals avant-garde, then attacks with unrelenting rage framed within tight, sludge-touched compositions that put the many-faced collaborative on par with the great bands SUMAC and Neurosis.

Cokegoat said of their previous album, 'Drugs And Animals' (2016), "It’s trashy, it will get you fucked up, and you’ll probably wake up in a strange place needing a double dose of antibiotics." I love that description (and almost feel jealous they came up with it first), because I felt similarly disoriented by 'Sunshine.' Over the course of four interlocking tracks, I found myself as listener reconciling the juxtaposition of harsh lead vox with angelic backing vocals, driven by an obsessive beat, searing guitar leads, droning synths, and a vision that demands repeated spins to fully absorb it into the bloodstream.

On the flip side, we're introduced to the wiles of Barren Heir -- a band half the size, but packing no less a wallop. Equal parts grand and terrifying, you sense a horrifying struggle in the way Eddie Limperis delivers his lyrics, fittingly accompanied by Nick Larocco's frightening, machine-like drumming and guitarist David Kirsch's savvy blend of the savage and serene. Our burden is made bearable by the band's instinct for managing their content within the chassis of large-scale compositions. "Cathartic" comes most prominently to my mind as a description for the pummeling emotional trip I just took with the double dosing of 'Tracing Light.'

Straightaway, I played all six songs again, wanting to understand why I felt so profoundly affected by the whole experience. Taken as a whole, both sides of the new split represent an impressive compliment to one another and could convincingly be regarded as one piece of musical architecture. Smacks of triumph to me.

Today, Doomed & Stoned is pleased to bring you the entirety of 'Sunshine/Tracing Light' (2018), which Cokegoat and Barren Heir will formally release on Friday, June 29th. Currently, you can still pre-order the vinyl here.

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On June 29th, 2018, doom-sludge metal bands Cokegoat and Barren Heir will release their new split album. The album consists of the four-part 'Sunshine' by Cokegoat and two-part 'Tracing Light' by Barren Heir.

From the city that can’t stop murdering its residents, comes part three in the history of Cokegoat. Told that they would not be able to retire from the band until year 10, band members embark on their latest offering. This split LP with Chicago’s mega trio Barren Heir, is a four-part, 18 minutes listen: 'Sunshine.' For a band that exudes none, 'Sunshine' has an underlying mission of self-control. Once again capturing the six individual elements of Cokegoat is Andy Nelson (Like Rats/Weekend Nachos) at Bricktop Recording in lovely Chicago. Jeremiah Klinger (Gregor Samsa/What We'll Be) synthesizers and Stephen Reichelt (Lost Dog/Morgue Supplier) double bass and vocals helped bring these 18 minutes to life. You may want to look directly at the sun while listening to this record.

Barren Heir is a power-trio out of Chicago ready to leave their niche on the scene. The official follow-up to their 2016 debut release 'Tired Turns' (2016), 'Tracing Light' is an experimental effort that defines their bleak brand of sludge/doom. Clocking in at over twenty minutes, this two-part track is a genre-bending opus that draws its influence across the spectrum, from blues and psychedelic to hardcore and black metal. 'Tracing Light' displays diverse styles of play ranging from the smooth and swanky to the primitive and disparaging, all strung-together and delivered at a decibel level somewhere between obnoxious and nauseating.

'Tracing Light' was engineered, produced, and mixed by Pete Grossman at Bricktop Recording and mastered by Carl Saff (Unsane, Red Fang) at Saff Mastering.   (Dewar PR)

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Cokegoat debut "The Burner"

Cokegoat have offered another sample of their looming record Drugs & Animals, titled “The Burner”. The group offered: “Our drummer Jordan kept asking to write a burner, so we did. It was written while Jordan wasn’t there. He got what he asked for. It seems like he likes the exercise.” The album is available now on vinyl and digital formats through the group’s Bandcamp. Drugs And Animals by…

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Cokegoat - "Winter Of Fear" track stream

Cokegoat have debuted a second track from their upcoming studio album Drugs And Animals, titled “Winter Of Fear”, listen below courtesy of Decibel. The group said of it: “‘Winter Of Fear’ was written after a most traumatic birthing experience. When we scream about pain in this song, we mean it. If you’re getting chills at any point during this track, it’s because making life is a disgusting,…

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Cokegoat announce new album Drugs And Animals

Official press release: On November 25th, Chicago-based death doom collective Cokegoat will drop the torrential fruit of their latest full-length, Drugs And Animals, upon unsuspecting souls. Engineered, produced, and mixed by Andy Nelson (Weekend Nachos, Like Rats) at Bricktop Recording and mastered by Carl Saff (Unsane, Red Fang, Earthless et al) at Saff Mastering, the nihilistic sounds of Drugs…

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"Buried in the City" by Cokegoat

This video is ridiculous and delightful.

Attn especially sidology