RITES OF SPRING - Six Song Demo 10" Metal and Winter Was Hard

and Winter Was Hard

Picking up right where they left off on 2021's Observer LP - Human Coward Coyote is an exercise in sprawling post punk tinged with darkwave with roots in hardcore punk

that came across like Hellhammer jamming with Amebix

haunting 10th album that once again taps into that interzone between classic Lynchian motifs and fizzing gothic undercurrents

Following the theft and destruction of her

RITES OF SPRING - Six Song Demo 10" Metal and Winter Was HardThese six songs capture Rites Of Spring in their earliest stages with original bassist Mike Fellows and entered Don Zientara's Inner Ear Studios to document the handful of songs they had written before Fellows left. Once the band played out, the songs gained velocity and intensity, but many of the elements that defined their music frenzied energy, sharp melodies and introspective lyrics were already very much in place. The release has been remastered