Mindsnare, one of Australia's most influential bands of the past decade have astounded us today with the surprise release of Unholy Rush, their first album in 10 years. Unholy Rush is the band's 5th album following 2007 release, Disturb The Hive.
Unholy Rush is available now on all streaming services, CD and vinyl.
On March 10, Mindsnare released two 7” EPs - Into Infinity and The Holy Bull Rides Fast in limited capacity as a precursor to Unholy Rush, with the pre orders of these selling out within 24 hours.
Why has it taken so long to release new music? Mindsnare 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."
Mindsnare's ferocious blend of unrelenting thrash mixed with old-school influences results in a savage, unique and uncompromising sound that is welcome, refreshing and undeniable.
Unholy Rush was engineered by Jason Fuller 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.
"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
He adds, "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."
The Swamp Green splatter is now sold out and very limited Bone / Beer Splatter copies are still available.
Pressing Information
100 on Swamp Green Splatter (Resist Records Exclusive)
200 on Beer / Bone Splatter (Retail only)
200 on Black (Retail only)
Mindsnare will be hitting the road for a handful of shows in April to celebrate the release of Unholy Rush. Throw your moshing shoes on and head down to one of the shows.
TOUR DATES:
FRIDAY 21 APRIL: BALD FACED STAG, SYDNEY
SATURDAY 22 APRIL: CROWBAR, BRISBANE
FRIDAY 28 APRIL: BENDIGO HOTEL, MELBOURNE
You can stream the whole album below. Warm up your neck and press play already.