CHANNEL MINOR THREAT AND NEGATIVE APPROACH ON OG DISS TRACK ‘COOL GUY’. FIRST ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS ‘BRING ON THE PSYCHICS’ AVAILABLE VIA RUDE RECORDS/EQUAL VISION RECORDS ON JULY 17.

Legendary independent New York-based rock label Rude Records/Equal Vision Records and Quicksand are pleased to present “Cool Guy,” the latest single to be lifted from the Friday, July 17 release of ‘Bring On The Psychics’, the first album in five years from the iconic NYC post-hardcore trio. “Song is like an OG HC diss track, like ‘Small Man, Big Mouth’ by Minor Threat or ‘Hypocrite’ by Negative Approach” the band said. “Sometimes you just gotta get those negative emotions out.” The music video directed and produced by Jesse Korman. Additionally, band recently announced its upcoming North American headline tour with Bane. Kicking off on Monday, August 3 at The Annex in Norfolk, VA, the tour will span August and early September, culminating in a performance at Royale in Boston, MA on Thursday, September 3. Further support will be provided by Soul Blind. Marking an entirely new era for the storied three-piece — guitarist/vocalist Walter Schreifels, bassist/vocalist Sergio Vega and drummer Alan Cage — album, serves as the sonic bridge between the band’s heavy and influential Nineties sound and the ambitious, experimental output contained within its more recent era. Produced and mixed by Jon Markson (Drug Church, Drain) across 10 days, LP once again finds group reinventing the sound they helped pioneer. Quicksand will be making the following appearances this summer. Dates below with more to be added soon.

JUNE

18 — Hamburg, DE — Knust
18 — 21 – Dessel, BE — Graspop Metal Meeting
20 — Köln, DE — Luxor
22 — Wiesbaden, DE — Schlachthof Wiesbaden
23 — Berlin, DE — Hole44
25 — Ysselsteyn, NL — Jera On Air

It’s impossible to overstate the influence that Quicksand have on the hardcore scene. Formed in New York City in 1990 out of the ashes of Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, Burn, Bold, the band took the aggression of hardcore and added a more groove-driven crunch to it, unintentionally inventing the genre known today as a post-hardcore. After releasing two major-label masterpieces in the Nineties — 1993’s ‘Slip’ and 1995’s ‘Manic Compression’ — the band split up at the peak of their powers, only to reunite in 2012 and release ‘Interiors’ and ‘Distant Populations’.

‘Bring On The Psychics’ tracklisting:

Get To It
Regenerate
Agency
Crystallize
Supercollider
In Full Color
Days You Run To
Cool Guy
Moving Forward
Bring On The Psychics