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CODE ORANGE unveil highly anticipated new LP “UNDERNEATH”

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Experimental metal/hardcore act CODE ORANGE have released their widely anticipated new album UNDERNEATH. Available now on all streaming platforms, UNDERNEATH features early singles – β€œSwallowing The Rabbit Whole,” β€œUnderneath,” and β€œSulfur Surrounding,” – and is available in four limited edition vinyl colorways, each featuring a gatefold jacket with a lenticular cover.

Produced by Code Orange’s Jami Morgan and Nick Raskulinecz with co-producer Will Yip, UNDERNEATH features additional programming from Chris Vrenna, and was mixed by Yip and Code Orange’s Eric β€˜Shade’ Balderose. UNDERNEATH has already earned widespread critical praise with NPR declaring β€œ[it] devours a body of extreme sounds β€” sludge, noise, metallic hardcore, doom, grunge, industrial and whatever else it takes to make the mosh pit swarm β€” to make uncompromisingly chaotic metal.” Stereogum detailed UNDERNEATH as β€œa conceptual piece about online poisoning…” adding, β€œthe experience of hearing it on headphones is akin to getting torn limb from limb by cybernetic terminators.” The UK’s Metal Hammer gave UNDERNEATH a perfect 10 out of 10 album review, hailing the LP as β€œa 1,000 ft neon signpost for the rest of the metal world to follow, the first classic record of the decade.” Kerrang! awarded UNDERNEATH a flawless 5K review declaring the album, β€œone of the most powerful, cathartic, creatively satisfying and bruisingly heavy records of its age,” with Rolling Stone praising Code Orange’s, β€œcutting melodies and the group’s balance of industrial rattle and shock-treatment guitar riffs.” Revolver affirmed, β€œThe record is one of the most colossal and best sounding hardcore-adjacent albums of all time.”

Comprised of Jami Morgan (Drums / Vocals), Eric β€˜Shade’ Balderose (Electronics / Guitar / Vocals), Reba Meyers (Guitar / Vocals), Dominic Landolina (Guitar) and Joe Goldman (Bass), Code Orange flipped the heavy music world on its head with their breakthrough album FOREVER, a collection that masterfully mixed hardcore aggression with urgent industrial textures, earning the band a breakthrough GRAMMY nomination and top placement on several β€œBest of 2017” lists including: Rolling Stone’s β€œ20 Best Metal Albums of 2017,” Revolver’s β€œ20 Best Albums of 2017,” and The Independent’s β€œTop 20 Rock & Metal Albums of 2017.”

This past summer, Code Orange made headlines in the professional wrestling world with the release of β€œLet Me In,” their official entrance theme for WWE Superstar β€˜The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt. Code Orange previously featured at WWE’s NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III performing a rendition of wrestler Aleister Black’s entrance theme alongside Incendiary’s Brendan Garrone. β€œLet Me In” followed Code Orange’s 2018 release of THE HURT WILL GO ON, a digital EP featuring β€œ3 Knives” and β€œThe Hunt” Feat. Corey Taylor, as well as β€œThe Hurt Will Go On” (Shade Remix), an official remix of Code Orange’s β€œHurt Goes On” helmed by the band’s guitarist and vocalist Shade. More recently the Code Orange has collaborated with a wide array of artists, co-producing Injury Reserve’s β€œHPNGC” Feat. JPEGMAFIA, as well as serving up a pair of remixes for alt-J’s β€œHit Me Like That Snare” and β€œAdeline.”

Karol KamiΕ„ski

DIY rock music enthusiast and web-zine publisher from Warsaw, Poland. Supporting DIY ethics, local artists and promoting hardcore punk, rock, post rock and alternative music of all kinds via IDIOTEQ online channels.
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