From the first enraged scream that ignites Deadguy’s long-awaited sophomore LP, this album is the kind of merciless chaos that’s been gone far too long.

Overflowing with angular riffs, clashing guitars, fractured rhythms and gutter bass that no one does better, Deadguy have dug in deeper on ‘Near-Death Travel Service’ s— an album 30 years in the making. It is an inside joke, the band reflecting on touring and playing this kind of music when they’re ostensibly “past their prime.” However, band’s forthcoming LP is as crucial and urgent as ever— as evidenced on the album’s newest single: ‘War With Strangers’. Recorded in fits and starts over a matter of months, 11 songs made the cut to be mixed, mastered and aimed indiscriminately at an unsuspecting public under the banner of ‘Near-Death Travel Services’. Members, at once skeptical, were finally able to take in the whole thing and had the same opinion after digesting their creation: “We made a fucking Deadguy record.”

See Deadguy on the road this summer:

Jun. 14 Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Monarch (Rich Hall Memorial Show)
Jul. 12 Garwood, NJ — Crossroads (Record Release Show)
Jul. 13 New York, NY — Rough Trade in-store (rsvp)
Aug. 23 Richmond, VA — The Warehouse

‘Near-Death Travel Services’, tracklist:

Kill Fee
Barn Burner
New Best Friend
Cheap Trick
The Forever People
War With Strangers
Knife Sharpener
The Alarmist
The Long Search For Perfect Timing
All Stick & No Carrot
Wax Princess

Photo by: Nathaniel Shannon