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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 – โ€œSwallowing The Rabbit Whole,โ€ โ€œUnderneath,โ€ and โ€œSulfur Surrounding,โ€ – and is available in four limited edition vinyl colorways, each featuring a gatefold jacket with a lenticular cover.

Produced by Code Orangeโ€™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 Orangeโ€™s Eric โ€˜Shadeโ€™ Balderose. UNDERNEATH has already earned widespread critical praise with NPR declaring โ€œ[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 โ€œa conceptual piece about online poisoningโ€ฆโ€ adding, โ€œthe experience of hearing it on headphones is akin to getting torn limb from limb by cybernetic terminators.โ€ The UKโ€™s Metal Hammer gave UNDERNEATH a perfect 10 out of 10 album review, hailing the LP as โ€œa 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, โ€œone of the most powerful, cathartic, creatively satisfying and bruisingly heavy records of its age,โ€ with Rolling Stone praising Code Orangeโ€™s, โ€œcutting melodies and the groupโ€™s balance of industrial rattle and shock-treatment guitar riffs.โ€ Revolver affirmed, โ€œThe record is one of the most colossal and best sounding hardcore-adjacent albums of all time.โ€

Comprised of Jami Morgan (Drums / Vocals), Eric โ€˜Shadeโ€™ 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 โ€œBest of 2017โ€ lists including: Rolling Stoneโ€™s โ€œ20 Best Metal Albums of 2017,โ€ Revolverโ€™s โ€œ20 Best Albums of 2017,โ€ and The Independentโ€™s โ€œTop 20 Rock & Metal Albums of 2017.โ€

This past summer, Code Orange made headlines in the professional wrestling world with the release of โ€œLet Me In,โ€ their official entrance theme for WWE Superstar โ€˜The Fiendโ€™ Bray Wyatt. Code Orange previously featured at WWEโ€™s NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III performing a rendition of wrestler Aleister Black’s entrance theme alongside Incendiaryโ€™s Brendan Garrone. โ€œLet Me Inโ€ followed Code Orangeโ€™s 2018 release of THE HURT WILL GO ON, a digital EP featuring โ€œ3 Knivesโ€ and โ€œThe Huntโ€ Feat. Corey Taylor, as well as โ€œThe Hurt Will Go Onโ€ (Shade Remix), an official remix of Code Orangeโ€™s โ€œHurt Goes Onโ€ helmed by the bandโ€™s guitarist and vocalist Shade. More recently the Code Orange has collaborated with a wide array of artists, co-producing Injury Reserveโ€™s โ€œHPNGCโ€ Feat. JPEGMAFIA, as well as serving up a pair of remixes for alt-Jโ€™s โ€œHit Me Like That Snareโ€ and โ€œAdeline.โ€

Karol Kamiล„ski

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