IRON LUNG - ADAPTING // CRAWLING LP

"Behold! Seattle’s immortal IRON LUNG have bestowed upon us their fourth studio full-length Adapting // Crawling. This, their first album since 2013, is as fierce and uncompromising as we’ve come to expect from the duo of JENSEN WARD and JON KORTLAND, who originally bonded over a shared fascination of punishing hardcore and arcane medical barbarism. On this new LP, it’s not a funhouse mirror they’re holding up—society has devolved into this misshapen, ugly and distorted form, and Iron Lung take no pleasure in pulling back its curtain. As truth-tellers in this breakneck and unrelenting hardcore tradition, duty commands Iron Lung to ram their bulldozers, Hanatarash-style, through the tidal waves of horseshit." "Extreme hardcore is not a new phenomenon, yet Adapting // Crawling is undoubtedly a vital new fork in its socket. Hearkening back to forebears Despise You and Crossed Out, these eighteen tracks offer distinctly original pathways to obliteration, from the ominous opening blows