Wristmeetrazor have announced their third album, Degeneration, the followup to their great 2021 album Replica of a Strange Love. It’s the band’s first album with bassist Userelaine and guitarist Nate Billmyer, and it was produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Randy Lebeouf (The Acacia Strain, Dying Wish, etc). The first single is “Trepanation,” which finds Wristmeetrazor at their darkest and heaviest. Vocalist Justin Fornof says they chose it as the first single because “it summed up the new direction of the record in the most aggressive way possible.”
“The song is the reflection of a dream I had a few days before flying to New Jersey to record, I had dreamed that I was in some sort of nightmarish cooking show that had me cut off my own hand, boil and eat it,” he continues. “Afterwards I looked at the stump where my hand was and felt phantom movements.”
“The record is about misanthropy and being driven beyond nihilism to hate, this song is my self-internalization of that. Pain seeks more pain, at least in my experience.”
Listen and watch the Cameron Nunez-directed video below. The album comes out March 29 via Prosthetic (pre-order).
UPDATE: Wristmeetrazor announced a tour, including dates with Silenus, fromjoy, Fallen God, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and The Requiem, varying by date. All dates (including Brooklyn’s The Kingsland on 4/19 with The Requiem and Silenus) are listed below.
Tracklist
1. Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead
2. Static Reckoning
3. Trepanation
4. Xeroxed Reflection
5. DogdayGod
6. Love Thy Enmity
7. Culled and Forgotten
8. Synthetic-51n
9. No Ceremony
10. The Vanity Procession
11. Negative Fix
12. Greatest Love Offering in the History of the World
Wristmeetrazor — 2024 Tour Dates
April 3 – Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
April 4 – Riffhouse Pub – Chesapeake, VA
April 5 – Milestone – Charlotte, NC
April 6 – New Brooklyn Tavern – Columbia, SC
April 8 – Pompano Brewery – Pompano Beach, FL
April 9 – Conduit – Orlando, FL
April 10 – Orpheum – Tampa, FL
April 11 – Canteen – Birmingham, AL
April 12 – Bogg’s Social – Atlanta, GA
April 13 – Arcane Workshop – Nashville, TN
April 14 – Vinos – Little Rock, AR
April 16 – Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN
April 17 – Preserving Underground – Pittsburgh, PA
April 18 – Rec Room – Buffalo, NY
April 19 – Kingsland – New York, NY
April 20 – Alchemy – Providence, RI
April 21 – Rockwood Music Hall – Boston, MA
w/ The Requiem (April 8 – 21), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (April 3 – 6), Fallen God (April 8 – 10), fromjoy (April 11 – 14), Silenus (April 16 – 21)