{"product_id":"sect-plagues-upon-plagues-cd","title":"SECT - Plagues Upon Plagues CD","description":"Sect's 4th LP is about a political plague swept in worldwide under the \nchaos of a literal \u0026amp; ecological one. Plagues Upon Plagues faces a \nmournful new reality: the profound loss of lifelong battles in an \nunraveling civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSect have a lot on their minds. With the\n release of their brand new single, “New Low” and the promise of Plagues\n Upon Plagues, the follow up full-length to 2019’s Blood of the Beasts, \nSect explore the intersection of issues which have cascaded over us for \nthe last five years, the “plagues” of the title referring to the literal\n pandemic, and the metaphorical plague of the political state and the \nrise of fascism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComprised of an international cast of stellar \nmusicians, who cut their teeth in a formative moment of political, \ncynical, antagonistic extremes, Sect unites Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, \nTooth \u0026amp; Claw) \u0026amp; Jimmy Chang (Undying, Catharsis) - guitars, \nSteve Hart (Day of Suffering, Mania For Conquest) - bass, Andy Hurley \n(Fall Out Boy, Racetraitor) - drums and Chris Colohan (Cursed, Unwell) -\n vocals. They released No Cure For Death in 2017 and Blood of the Beasts\n in 2019 and now, their latest for Southern Lord titled Plagues Upon \nPlagues will be released 7th June 2024.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlagues Upon Plagues \nopens with the bereft waves of “No Uncertain Terms”, a side of the band \nwe haven’t seen before. Vocalist Chris Colohan describes this album as \n“a funeral rather than a trial”, the activism of previous releases \nfading to sorrow and grief. “Our scene has already been screaming about \nthe threat of an ecological breaking point and the looming threat of \nrecurrent fascism throughout our whole lives,” says Chris. “When both \ncome to pass at the same time and you get the exact world you fought \nnever to see, there are no more alarm bells to ring. You’re just burying\n your dead. It’s mournful.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLead single “New Low” follows with \nthe advent of marching drums, a funereal procession for the world we \nhoped to build. There’s frantic horror on the album too, with the track \n“Drowning in Sorrows” taking a look at the ways in which we numb \nourselves as a society. “#ForeverHome” is a bitterly angry track about \nhow people used animals for both narcissistic virtue signalling and \none-way comfort in the pandemic, and abandoned them en masse just as \nselfishly when social life came back. Speaking to their straight-edge \nprinciples and how that continues to feed into their songwriting, Chris \nsays, “the only kind of straight edge songs I’m interested in writing \nare dynamic ones that address human realities that you don’t have to be \nstraight edge to engage with.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChris speaks more specifically \nabout the collective behaviours which he observed society defaulting to \nin the thick of uncertainty - opportunism, profiteering, denial, \naccelerationism, sabotage. “The first five weeks of the pandemic told me\n more about where we’re at and where we’re headed than five decades of \nlife, and it rendered most idealism irrelevant, regardless of how \nselectively we remember it in retrospect.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe outlook is bleak, \nbut music helps. “We’re barreling towards the next mass atrocity just as\n the last century’s fade into the past,” says Chris. “I’ve definitely \nhad to let go of the ideal of survival in the wake of the last few \nyears. Wasn’t the world we wanted to see but with all the checks and \nbalances this thoroughly defeated, it’s going to play out however it \ndoes from here. Changing any minds at this point is kind of irrelevant -\n that’s largely the point of this album and the challenges we had \nwriting it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrums for the album were tracked with engineer \nJustin Phelps in Portland, OR at The Hallowed Halls. Guitars and bass \nwere tracked at Scott’s home studio and Chris’ vocals were recorded at \nthe old Holy Mountain Printing warehouse in Raleigh, NC - a makeshift \nvocal booth was set up in an aisle of shirts. Kurt Ballou at God City \nmixed the record.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Plagues Upon Plagues, Sect pierce through \nthe veil of complacency, forcing listeners to confront uncomfortable \ntruths about the fragility of our world. The band wields their sonic \narsenal like a prophetic warning and with raw vocals and uncompromising \nlyrics, they confront the harsh realities of existence in these \ntumultuous times. As society teeters on the brink of chaos, Sect's cold \nhard statement resonates with an urgency that cannot be ignored.","brand":"Southern Lord Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56423268122950,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2300\/6790\/files\/a4235125411_10.jpg?v=1776936345","url":"https:\/\/selfmadegod-store.com\/pl\/products\/sect-plagues-upon-plagues-cd","provider":"Selfmadegod Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}