Russian Circles "Empros" meta-dtg snotty-yet-abrasive beach hardcore – in

snotty-yet-abrasive beach hardcore – in a 200-copy micro pressing in 1985

"Into the Unknown"

A Shadow Memory

The sonic heft is matched by lyrical themes of family and religious abuse

) "They Don't Have To Believe" is a monster of an album

Russian Circles "Empros" meta-dtg snotty-yet-abrasive beach hardcore – inChicago trio Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date but also with Empros they're poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of genre. Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009's Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles'