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News : Mindsnare release new album ‘Unholy Rush’

By on March 24, 2017

Famed Melbourne hardcore band, Mindsnare, and one of Australia’s most influential bands of the past decade have unveiled their brand new album today with the surprise release of Unholy Rush, the band’s first album in 10 years. This is the band’s fifth studio release following 2007’s Disturb The Hive.

On March 10 this year the band release two 7″ EPs – Into Infinity and The Holy Bull Rides Fast in limited numbers, and was the precursor to Unholy Rush. Much like previous Mindsnare releases all pre-orders sold out in a matter of 24 hours. Unholy Rush is now available for purchase via Resist Records.

You’re probably asking yourself why has it taken so damn long for Mindsnare to release new music? Fear not. Minsnare guitarist Beltsy explains:

It was never a plan to leave it so long, it just kind of panned out that way…. Lots of shit going on for everyone with work, kids, life, broken people…. Blah blah blah, all good though it’s here now and I can’t wait to hit the road with it!
Graham Nixon from Resist Records adds:
When we first started talking to the band about recording the new album, we thought of ways on how it can make the most impact upon release that was different to previous albums. As the band were talking of recording some covers, we thought it would be cool to release 2 different 7”s at once, both featuring 2 covers exclusive to the 7”s. As the band had the album also recorded, we had both the album and 7”s manufactured at the same time, with the plan to give away 50 copies of the album to 50 unsuspecting fans. Have no mention of the album prior to this, so it was all a mystery when those were received, Mindsnare don’t put out all that much music, so how cool is that when you receive the bands new 7”, but as a bonus also receive a new album you had no idea about. The plan was to press a limited amount of the 7”s and sell them out really quickly – put a small amount into retail so they also sell quickly, then release the album – no pre awareness, no pre order campaign, its simply out now.
Unholy Rush was engineered by Jason Fuller (Blood Duster) at Goat Sound, mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege and produced by Jason Fuller and Beltsy. The cover illustration is by Sawblade.

Beltsy adds:

“As far as the writing of the music goes, I just wanted to write something that I feel kind of fits somewhere between Hanged, Choked, Wrists Slit & The Death but with a darker vibe throughout the songs.” says Beltsy

“The recording side of things is always a bit of a gamble. You spend how ever long writing the songs and in my case going over and over them in my head with a clear picture of how they will/should sound recorded, however unless you get someone on board for the engineering/mixing/mastering process that understands the style & sound it can all turn to shit pretty quickly… for the tracking/engineering it was an easy decision to go with Jason Fuller at Goatsound, he knows his shit and knows his way around the knobs…. It then went to Kurt Ballou at GodCity for the mixing and Brad Boatright at Audiosiege for mastering who both worked their magic to get pretty much exactly the end result that I had been envisioning.”

Catch Mindsnare on their limited run of shows this April.

FRIDAY 21 APRIL: BALD FACED STAG, SYDNEY
SATURDAY 22 APRIL: CROWBAR, BRISBANE
FRIDAY 28 APRIL: BENDIGO HOTEL, MELBOURNE

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