BARATRO: Italy-Based Experimental Noise Rock Band With Unsane Alumni And Council Of Rats Member Unveils Second LP, No Comply, Out May 8th On Supernatural Cat Records; “Pick A Side” Video And Preorders Posted

Supernatural Cat Records, operated by members of Malleus Rock Art Collective, Ufomammut, and more, present the cinematic grit of Italian avant/noise rock act BARATRO, announcing the band’s No Comply LP for May release.

The genesis of BARATRO traces back to when guitarist Federico Hartridge (Council Of Rats) and bassist Dave Curran (Unsane) met at a show in legendary Milan squat Cox18 and began riffs and song ideas. Eventually these experiments grew into a proper band with the addition of Luca Antonozzi (Marnero) behind the drumkit to complete the lineup. The band quickly completed and rehearsed enough material to play a few shows across Italy, and within a few months of formation, they recorded first six songs in the empty concert hall of Cox18, which were later released as the Terms And Conditions EP via Sangue Dischi Records in July of 2021.

Given the worldwide shutdown of live performances through 2020/2021, BARATRO focused on writing new music, and that August, they started tracking their first full-length effort, The Sweet Smell Of Unrest, which was released February 2024 via Improved Sequence. That same year, BARATRO welcomed cellist Matteo Bennici to experiment as a quartet, both for composition and live. With this new formation and newfound chemistry, the band simply let the dynamics and trust in each other shape the outcome of the music.

This new creative process led, about a year later, to the recording sessions of BARATRO’s second album, No Comply, an engrossing cross-genre amalgam of sounds which could be described with stoner, doom, noise, psychedelic, experimental, cinematic, punk, and various other rock subgenre tags. Tons of grime and groove with more hooks than an armada of fishing vessels drenched in emotive energy and a filmic aura, the album infuses generations of outlier rock elements into a diverse but cohesive album that will grab fans of Oxbow, The Jesus Lizard, Swans, Shellac, Zeni Geva, Neurosis, Kayo Dot, OvO, Musk Ox, God Bullies, Tomahawk, Maudlin Of The Well, Black Flag, and Unsane.

No Comply was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Fabio Intraina at Trai Studio, produced by BARATRO and Fabio Intraina, and like all Supernatural Cat releases, completed with artwork by Malleus. Curran’s former Unsane bandmate Vincent Signorelli performs additional percussion on the song “Not All There,” and Buñuel/ex-Oxbow vocalist Eugene Robinson attacks the track “120 On 280.”

“‘Pick A Side’ was one of the first songs we arranged within the cauldron of ideas from which No Comply eventually emerged,” the band issues of the album’s lead single. “We feel like it embodies many of our distinctive traits: a rhythmic tension from the pounding drums and growling bass, melodic textures from the cello, guitar floating above the low frequency pulsations and tortured, snarling vocals that find their way to an almost melodic mantra at the end.”

Watch the video for BARATRO’s “Pick A Side” HERE and stream the song HERE.

No Comply will be released on LP, CD, and digitally on May 8th. There are two vinyl variants: the standard pressing on 180g marble vinyl, and a limited edition of 100 copies on 180g triple splatter vinyl w/ CD, download, and skate deck fold-out, designed, crafted, and hand-silkscreened in Italy by Malleus. Each copy is unique, featuring a hand-printed cover treated with metallic inks. Fully hand-assembled packaging, signed.

Find preorders for all variants and formats at the Supernatural Cat site HERE.

No Comply Track Listing:
1. Dawn
2. Hold Fast
3. Not All There feat. Vincent Signorelli
4. Keep Em Needing
5. 120 On 280 feat. Eugene Robinson
6. Pick A Side
7. Insidious
8. End Transmission
9. Dusk
10. No Comply

BARATRO:
Dave Curran – bass, vocals
Federico Hartridge – guitar, vocals
Luca Antonozzi – drums
Matteo Bennici – cello

photo by Andrea Riva

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