POST-PUNK SELF-ACTUALIZATION MEETS A SIXTIES BATMAN FIGHT SCENE ON QUICKSAND’S BRAND NEW SINGLE. 1st ALBUM IN FIVE YEARS ‘BRING ON THE PSYCHICS’ VIA EQUAL VISION RECORDS DUE ON JULY 17.

“‘Crystallize’ opens a new lane for us” the band says of the new single. “Post-punk self-actualization-core meets 1960s Batman fight scene.” Marking an entirely new era for the storied three-piece — guitarist/vocalist Walter Schreifels, bassist/vocalist Sergio Vega and drummer Alan Cage — new 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, new release once again finds band reinventing the sound they helped pioneer.

Group will be making the following appearances this summer. Dates below with more to be added soon.

JUNE
11 — Hradec Králové 7, CZ — Rock for People 2026 at Park 360
12 — Nickelsdorf, AT — Nova Rock
14 — Munchen, DE — Ampere
15 — Leipzig, DE — UT Connewitz
16 — Trier, DE — Mergener Hof e.V.
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

Credit: Annette Rodriguez