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May You Be Held
''May You Be Held'' is the fourth studio album by Canadian-American metal band Sumac. The album was released on October 2, 2020 through Thrill Jockey, pushed back from its original release date of September 18. To promote the album, Sumac released the track "The Iron Chair" for online streaming in July 2020. Sumac asked Thrill Jockey to refrain from posting the album to the music streaming platform Spotify due to what the band referred to as CEO Daniel Ek's "pretty repugnant statements" made earlier in 2020 about artists not performing well on the site. ''May You Be Held'' was recorded over three years (2017–2019) and recorded at three different recordings studios, primarily in Washington state. Kurt Ballou ( Converge) who produced Sumac's ''What One Becomes'' (2016) and '' Love in Shadow'' (2018) returned to mix the album, while it was recorded by Matt Bayles ( Isis, Botch). Track listing Personnel Sumac * Brian Cook – bass * Aaron Turner – guitars, vocals * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumac (band)
Sumac (stylized as SUMAC) is an American/Canadian post-metal supergroup that formed in 2014. It features the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), Seattle, Washington-based Brian Cook (Russian Circles, ex-These Arms Are Snakes, ex- Botch) and Vashon, Washington-based Aaron Turner (Mamiffer, Old Man Gloom, ex-Isis). Sumac released its debut album '' The Deal'' through Profound Lore Records in 2015. History Musician Aaron Turner started working on new material that would eventually become Sumac with the intention of writing some of the heaviest music he had ever created. After creating the skeletons of a handful of songs, he turned to Kurt Ballou of Converge and asked if he knew of a drummer that would fit well with the music he wrote. Ballou, who worked with the Canadian crust-punk band Baptists in April 2014 to record their second studio album ''Bloodmines'', recommended Baptists drummer Nick Yacyshyn. Turner and Yacyshyn jammed together and clicked, and Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |