Experimental metal/hardcore act CODE ORANGE have released their widely anticipated new album UNDERNEATH. Available now on all streaming platforms, UNDERNEATH features early singles – โSwallowing The Rabbit Whole,โ โUnderneath,โ and โSulfur Surrounding,โ – and is available in four limited edition vinyl colorways, each featuring a gatefold jacket with a lenticular cover.
Produced by Code Orangeโs Jami Morgan and Nick Raskulinecz with co-producer Will Yip, UNDERNEATH features additional programming from Chris Vrenna, and was mixed by Yip and Code Orangeโs Eric โShadeโ Balderose. UNDERNEATH has already earned widespread critical praise with NPR declaring โ[it] devours a body of extreme sounds โ sludge, noise, metallic hardcore, doom, grunge, industrial and whatever else it takes to make the mosh pit swarm โ to make uncompromisingly chaotic metal.โ Stereogum detailed UNDERNEATH as โa conceptual piece about online poisoningโฆโ adding, โthe experience of hearing it on headphones is akin to getting torn limb from limb by cybernetic terminators.โ The UKโs Metal Hammer gave UNDERNEATH a perfect 10 out of 10 album review, hailing the LP as โa 1,000 ft neon signpost for the rest of the metal world to follow, the first classic record of the decade.โ Kerrang! awarded UNDERNEATH a flawless 5K review declaring the album, โone of the most powerful, cathartic, creatively satisfying and bruisingly heavy records of its age,โ with Rolling Stone praising Code Orangeโs, โcutting melodies and the groupโs balance of industrial rattle and shock-treatment guitar riffs.โ Revolver affirmed, โThe record is one of the most colossal and best sounding hardcore-adjacent albums of all time.โ
Comprised of Jami Morgan (Drums / Vocals), Eric โShadeโ 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 โBest of 2017โ lists including: Rolling Stoneโs โ20 Best Metal Albums of 2017,โ Revolverโs โ20 Best Albums of 2017,โ and The Independentโs โTop 20 Rock & Metal Albums of 2017.โ
This past summer, Code Orange made headlines in the professional wrestling world with the release of โLet Me In,โ their official entrance theme for WWE Superstar โThe Fiendโ Bray Wyatt. Code Orange previously featured at WWEโs NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III performing a rendition of wrestler Aleister Black’s entrance theme alongside Incendiaryโs Brendan Garrone. โLet Me Inโ followed Code Orangeโs 2018 release of THE HURT WILL GO ON, a digital EP featuring โ3 Knivesโ and โThe Huntโ Feat. Corey Taylor, as well as โThe Hurt Will Go Onโ (Shade Remix), an official remix of Code Orangeโs โHurt Goes Onโ helmed by the bandโs guitarist and vocalist Shade. More recently the Code Orange has collaborated with a wide array of artists, co-producing Injury Reserveโs โHPNGCโ Feat. JPEGMAFIA, as well as serving up a pair of remixes for alt-Jโs โHit Me Like That Snareโ and โAdeline.โ

