NJ Shoegaze Band DEAD SWORDS (Feat. Alex Rosamilia Of The Gaslight Anthem) Release Debut Album Today

Dead Swords, the brand new, New Jersey-based outfit comprised of Alex Rosamilia of The Gaslight Anthem and Corey Perez of Bottomfeeder and Let Me Run, are excited to announce the release of the band's debut album titled Enders (on iTunes and Bandcamp). The brainchild of both Rosamilia and Perez, the band plays a ghostly brand of shoegaze, or, perhaps, a more soothing kind of black metal, expansive in both purpose and ambition.

Released today on Human Blood Records, the debut showcase picks up where its two previous EPs, Skeletons and Broken Souls, left off and is a record that's clearly inspired by and obsessed with both Disintegration & Loveless. Lyrically, the album also speaks to Rosamilia's continued fascination with death. In scope, the album is his overly morbid take on loss and what happens after we go. Stream the album in full on Spotify HERE.

Helmed by Rosamilia and Perez with the help of engineer/producer Kevin Dye (gates), Enderspresents itself as a highly determined recording featuring a large cast of contributors that include three bass players: Frank Marra, Darrell Coco, Mike Maroney ("Tonight"), Benny Horowitzof The Gaslight Anthem/Mercy Union/Antarctigo Vespucci (drums on "Tonight"), Erica Rosamilia (vocals on "Ender"), Trevor Reddell (drums on "Fumetsu"), poet Mischa Pearlman("Interlude 04" and "Interlude 05") and more. Rosamilia had the following to say about the album and ambition behind it:

"When I started Dead Swords, I really wanted to focus on letting the music be able to breathe. I have always been a fan of bands like Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, or The Cure; bands that write songs that sprawl about over the course of seven-t0-eight minutes. This album is my homage to those bands and those songs that take you for a 10-minute trip without you realizing how long you've been sat there."

Despite the torrent of guitars at the center of these funereal and nihilistic songs, there's hope and beauty in these songs too, dreams that refuse to succumb to the nightmare of the real world and the bleakness of our own ever-impending mortality. Listening to Dead Swords is like being lost in the loneliest darkness. Theirs is a world of overwhelming static and feedback, of eternities-long melancholy, of the purest beauty shrouded and obscured by the blackest night. It's the sound of being alive centuries before you were ever born.

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