BRAT has today released their debut album, Social Grace, via Prosthetic Records. On Social Grace, the NOLA based death grind / hardcore band extend an open invite to their self-desribed barbiegrind party. In celebration of the release the band will be performing a home city show on March 23 at The Free Store in New Orleans, LA, with further touring dates in full below.
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Speaking on the album release, BRAT comments: “We’re very proud and excited to debut our new album Social Grace. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we have creating it.”
Between an intense live schedule over the last three years, which saw BRAT share the stage with the likes of Eyehategod, Cro-Mags and contemporaries in grind such as ACxDC and No/Mas, the band recorded Social Grace over the course of a year and a half at HighTower Recording studio (Thou, A Wilhelm Scream, Eyehategod). Recording songs in batches helped BRAT finetune and focus their songcraft in condensed bursts, resulting in a coalescence of death metal, thrash, and powerviolence brutality.
Social Grace follows extreme music’s well trodden themes of futility and rage throughout it’s 10 tracks, with the band’s reverence for psychological horror fiction and admiration for Stephen King genre classics evident on songs such as Hesitation Wound and Truncheon, as well as the title-track’s scathing rebuttal of aristocracy.BRAT’s self-described barbiegrind / bimboviolence aesthetic is one of intentional dichotomy to their sound, with a keen focus to allow space and inclusivity for outsiders that shirks the traditional in favor of jubilant authenticity. Feral and ferocious in content and anti-purist in nature, BRAT’s Social Grace is a cataclysmically heavy party that everyone’s invited to.
Praise for Social Grace:
“Don’t sleep on this one if you like fast, heavy, loud music with a mission.” – MetalSucks (4.5/5)
“…no one can deny how good Social Grace is musically.” – Blabbermouth (8/10)
“Behind the New Orleans quartet’s penchant for pink is a violent streak…” – Kerrang! 4/5
“This is a debut showing a band ready to push and stretch the boundaries of an otherwise quite narrow genre.” – The Razor’s Edge
“If there is something that we will never stop needing in the alternative scene is a band that does some good crossover, and BRAT is delivering it with utter confidence” – Noizze (8/10)
“It’s a release that exudes an intense energy, creating an inviting environment for much needed mosh pits and two-stepping.” – Boolin Tunes (7/10)
BRAT – Social Grace tracklist
1. Ego Death
2. Hesitation Wound
3. Slow Heat
4. Truncheon
5. Human Offense
6. Rope Drag
7. Blood Diamond
8. Snifter
9. Sugar Bastard
10. Social Grace
BRAT is:
Brenner Moate – Guitar
Liz Selfish – Vocals
Dustin Eagan – Drums
Ian Hennessey – Bass
Upcoming BRAT tour dates:
March 23 – The Free Store – New Orleans, LA
March 27 – JJs – Chattanooga, TN
March 28 – Brickyard – Knoxville, TN
March 29 – BTCH FEST – Richmond, VA
March 30 – Static Age – Asheville, TN
May 9 – Northwest Terror – Seattle, WA
w/ MDC
May 16 – Crybaby – Oakland, CA
May 17 – Transplants – Palmdale, CA
May 18 – First St. Billiards – Los Angeles, CA
May 19 – Solaris – Marietta, CA