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artist: Torturers' Lobby
title: Deadened Nerves
year: 2024
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Caligari Records
language: English
rel. date: 2024-06-14
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:32:36
size: 74.7 MiB / 10 tracks
rip date: 2026-06-24
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ch13g1c4h3f2a
tracklist:
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
release notes:
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.