Founded in 2000, Car Bomb celebrate their 25th year with the release of a new EP Tiles Whisper Dreams which will be out 1st August, 2025. Consisting of three new tracks, Tiles Whisper Dreams is the band’s first new music to be released since 2019’s Mordial album. The band have recently released a first track ‘Paroxysm’ which is now streaming at the link below.
Pre-order the EP here: https://carbomb.bandcamp.com/album/tiles-whisper-dreams
‘Paroxysm’ reveals a revitalized Car Bomb, seemingly chomping at the bit with all the fury of a band half its age. “This is our first release since before COVID,” states guitarist Kubacki “and we really tried to put our 100% into these songs.”
In under three minutes, the aptly-titled ‘Paroxysm’ delivers a barrage of semi-automatic drum-fire and viscous guitars, conjoined in inscrutable patterns. Vocalist Michael Dafferner mostly roars but lets his singing voice shine in one brief, glistening moment. The song is about “the never-ending struggle with power and control,” he says.
In a genre built on shock and awe, it is tough to be shocking or awe-inspiring these days. With metal in its sixth decade, making an impact is an increasingly difficult feat. The ceiling is red with the blood of straight-line shredders futilely competing for the attention of desensitized ears.
Car Bomb is that rare metal band that have found a pathway through the ceiling – a wormhole, if you will – and have occupied a position of radical transcendence for a quarter-century now. In their 25 years of existence, the New York City-area quartet have been sculpting its own signature sound and cementing its identity as an outlier, above the fray, inspiring a legion of younger musicians in the process.
Car Bomb‘s sound is that of perpetual transformation: a spiraling flurry of rhythm and texture that congeals, fleetingly, into planet-pulverizing death-grooves and fragments of haunting melodies. Baffling rhythmic modulations and deep-space guitar effects appear to warp time completely. Disorientation is the rule, not the exception.
“Their psychotic turbo-thrash is disgustingly disorienting,” reads one Kerrang! review. “One relentless onslaught of time-chopping violence.“
A Stereogum review describes the style as “a rhythmically abstruse variety of extreme metal… hallucinatory time-stretching.“
Car Bomb guitarist Greg Kubacki puts it like this: “When someone asks me what we sound like, I always ask them ‘what’s the heaviest band you listen to?’ and then I say it’s either 10x, 100x, or 1,000x crazier than that, depending on their answer. We aspire to create our own style of heavy music by bending everything: the notes, time signatures, tempos, sonic quality of the guitars, etc. We’re always pushing and pulling everything, ripping ideas apart and then squashing them back together. And as a result our songs might sound chaotic at first, but as they progress the patterns, grooves, and motifs embedded inside all of the mangling and warping will reveal themselves and evolve in unexpected ways. Most people won’t get that deep into our stuff and will just hear a pile of noise, which is fine with us. We’re creating the kind of music we want to hear and that’s all we care about.”
Track-list:
1. Blindsides
2. Paroxysm
3. Tiles Whisper Dreams
Car Bomb will tour Europe and the UK in August, including dates with Gojira, Between the Buried and Me, and Imperial Triumphant.
Catch Car Bomb live:
Aug 7 – Jaromer, CZ @ Brutal Assault Fest
Aug 8 – Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
Aug 9 – Karlsruhe, DE @ P8
Aug 10 – Utrecht, NL @ Pandora *
Aug 12 – Oberhausen, DE @ Turbinenhalle Δ
Aug 14 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City Beta
Aug 15 – Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent Fest
Aug 16 – London, UK @ Oslo
Aug 18 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega #
Aug 19 – Stockholm, SE @ Bar Brooklyn #
Aug 20 – Oslo, NO @ Goldie #
Aug 21 – Aalborg, DK @ SH35 #
Aug 22 – Kiel, DE @ Kieler Schaubude #
Aug 23 – Haarlem, NL @ Complexity Fest #
*=Between the Buried and Me
Δ=Gojira
#=Imperial Triumphant
Line-up:
Michael Dafferner – vocals
Greg Kubacki – guitar
Jon Modell – bass
Elliot Hoffman – drumsFor more information:
https://www.instagram.com/carbombofficial
https://www.facebook.com/CarBomb
https://www.carbombcult.com/
https://carbomb.bandcamp.com
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