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Artist......: Torturers' Lobby
Album.......: Deadened Nerves
Year........: 2024
Genre.......: Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Caligari Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 958kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 10 tracks
Playtime....: 00:32:36
Size........: 230.3 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-06-24
S.Date......: 2024-06-14
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ch13g1c4h3f2a
01. Dawning 1:35
02. Barbaric Alchemy 2:55
03. Chromosomal Devastation 3:35
04. Captured Pieces 1:59
05. Reaper's Impunity 3:56
06. Hypnotic Seeds Sown 2:33
07. Humanity's Husk 4:54
08. Re-Education 2:55
09. Enduring Spirit 2:52
10. Reptilian Hide 5:22
CALIGARI RECORDS, in conspiracy with Ixiol Productions,
is proud to present TORTURERS' LOBBY's highly
anticipated debut album, Deadened Nerves.
Hailing from Tampa, TORTURERS' LOBBY began as a
three-piece band with Tim Anderson on drums, Ryan Conway
on bass, and Evan Dawson, on guitar/vocals. After the
Again debut demo in 2021, Adam Shaw joined as a
dedicated vocalist. With this lineup, the band recorded
the Crisis of Faith Rehearsal, which was released later
in 2021. The following year, the 7" EP Man in Zwugzang
was released, and Anderson left the band after the
subsequent Kinetic Disapproval rehearsal, which featured
some early versions of songs that would be on TORTURERS'
LOBBY's eventual debut album, Deadened Nerves. Dwane
Nihiser replaced him, and that debut album is the first
release with him playing drums.
Now at last here and their lineup firm, Deadened Nerves
announces TORTURERS' LOBBY's arrival with devastating
punctuation. A metal record for metal people, the band's
first full-length doesn't kowtow to genre conventions -
death metal, black metal, thrash, and even juiced-up
traditional metal all get diced and sliced into their
cranky cauldron - nor does it get overly "clever" and
pay lazy lip service to a please-everybody middle
ground. No, TORTURERS' LOBBY simply go for the throat
quickly and without compunction, rushing forth with an
urgency of approach and physicality that's tangible -
truly, this is a whole band playing together instead of
punched-in parts - but soon twist the knife in myriad
ways. And that's perhaps the trump card of Deadened
Nerves: violent and off the rails it might often be, but
there's a diabolic logic to the angular shapes
TORTURERS' LOBBY throw, a strive to elevate songwriting
to something at once palpitating and mind-bending,
careening and in control. RIFFS are aplenty, and the
production's thick and scuzzy yet fully pro, and Shaw's
vocals keep apace with acerbic annunciation.
"Truly, we just wanted to create unique music we haven't
heard, yet want to listen to," state the band. "It's
very difficult to nail down what we play, and we like it
that way. We worship no specific style, as the greats
have already done it, so there is no sense in recreating
some watered-down parody of it. We just wanted to be
different and pursue something new, a different
direction in violent 'underground' music. We have
jokingly referred to our sound as 'Florida shitkicker.'"
Still, there's no joking around on Deadened Nerves. The
lyrics match the severity of its music, focusing on
actual events and societal ails. "We do not write silly
songs about juvenile notions of 'evil,' the 'occult,' or
fictitious gore," the band continue. "We strive to turn
humanity to face its grotesque reflection and reconcile
with its own evil and misguided obsession with cruelty,
morbidity, and lack of independent thought. This is a
real reflection of the decaying world around us, though
we are not seeking to advocate for it."
Nasty, authentically underground, but not bogged down by
too-cool borders, TORTURERS' LOBBY shitkick past,
present, and future with Deadened Nerves.