Freaky, funky, psychedelic metal experimenters, THE OXFORD COMA, have issued a new single from their impending second LP, Paris Is Mine, through an exclusive premiere at New Noise Magazine, as the album nears its release next week.
Recorded, engineered, mixed and mastered by Jalipaz at Audioconfusion in Mesa, Arizona, Paris Is Mine delivers forty minutes of THE OXFORD COMA‘s self-prescribed psychedelic anxiety rock. The ongoing self-corrosion of the experimentalist trio’s production style brings out new elements of their tantalizing madness, as Paris Is Mine is the first recorded output from the unit including two drummers, previously only a sporadically recurring theme of their live setup. Clocking in at nearly seven minutes in duration, “Ritaling” rumbles and writhes through a wide array of extreme music influences, culminating into the unnamed alloy of which THE OXFORD COMA trio’s body of work is constructed. Lean in and hear how AmRep skronk tones, grunge riff-mangling, and cerebral modern metal thunder mesh into a forward-thinking, brain-bruising explosion of noxiously progressive and uncategorized musical madness.
In a recent 4/5 review of Paris Is Mine, New Noise Magazine issues on THE OXFORD COMA, “Their multi-faceted compositions draw influence from all over the musical spectrum, including stoner and sludge metal, psychedelic rock, math rock, noise and more. Combine this eclectic range with a penchant for improvisation and you’ve got a weird and unique sonic experience on your hands.” The review continues, focusing on the new single specifically, “Grumbling bass lines and corrosive stoner grooves can be heard throughout ‘Ritaling’, which is arguably the album’s most intense track.”
Stream THE OXFORD COMA’s “Ritaling” through New Noise Magazine now at THIS LOCATION.
Also check out the album-opening “Canadian Questionmark” via American Aftermath RIGHT HERE.
Paris Is Mine will be independently released on August 11th, digitally, with a limited physical format to follow. Digital preorders are now available HERE.
THE OXFORD COMA has confirmed a record release show for Paris Is Mine is planned for September 19th, with additional new tour dates in the planning stages.
THE OXFORD COMA Live:
9/19/2015 Rebel Lounge – Phoenix, AZ *record release show w/ Antique Scream
9/19/2015 Rebel Lounge – Phoenix, AZ *record release show w/ Antique Scream
From within the scorching Southwestern US, THE OXFORD COMA has steadily pumped out a hearty discography of independent releases since their 2011 inception. Powered and endorsed by Orange amps, and drawing from a wide array of influences from across the spectrum of forward-thinking rock artists, bridging the early days and modern times, comparisons to the improvisational prog rock circles of the 1960s and ’70s to premier extreme acts of the past thirty years, the recorded output of this morphing act has drawn similarities to Tool to Primus, Radiohead to The Dillinger Escape Plan, Nirvana, Neurosis, King Crimson, Kyuss and many things in between. The band’s second full-length, Paris Is Mine, continues to show the band opting for rawer, live, more DIY productions with each release, and with this one, THE OXFORD COMA has harnessed a raw beast; their most corrosive and unreserved material to date. Bent on combining the weirdness and freshness of improvisation with the intensity and honesty of good metal and the lasting impact of innovative rock, the new album was created with minimal production, the vocals all in one take in order to preserve a natural feel.
