New album “Knife” out on April 7th!
Baltimore, Maryland-based post-hardcore/noise rock outfit MAST YEAR has completed their debut album, Knife, and are preparing to release it in early April through Grimoire Records, who has issued the cover art, track listing, preorders, and lead single.
MAST YEAR was forged by bassist Darin Tambascio (Thought Eater, National Sunday Law) and guitarist Noel Mueller (Questioner, Grimoire Records), who started trading riffs online during the first months of lockdown in the Spring of 2020, after which they were joined later that Summer by Ben Price (At The Graves, Immiseration, Foehammer) on drums. In the Fall of 2021, they released a digital-only demo and performed live as an instrumental three-piece. In the Spring of 2022, Eric Rhodes (Genevieve) joined the band on vocals, bringing a jaunty and chaotic front-man vibe, placing the band’s genre-fluid sound in the realm of noise rock with metallic dregs of post-hardcore in the mix.
In the Summer of 2022, MAST YEAR performed live and honed the material as a four-piece, eventually recording the twenty-five-minute debut Knife in Mueller’s Tiny Castle studio (Yatra, Myopic, At The Graves) in August. The album was later mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Obituary, Sunn O))) -16-) and completed with cover art by Rhodes and Mueller.
Rhodes writes, “I haven’t seriously fronted a band since I was a teenager, and I needed a mic to yell at. This music spoke to my noise rock nerve and got my blood flowing. So, I was excited to be asked to yell for the MAST YEAR.”
Mueller adds, “Knife is a unique snapshot of what MAST YEAR sounded like in a specific period of time. With Ben and Eric now writing material for the band, the next snapshots will sound different.”
(Photograph by Ben Price)
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