Stream Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire

Stream Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire

It’s been six years since the great Providence noisecore duo Lightning Bolt dropped their last album, 2009’s Earthly Delights. You might expect a time gap like that to change a band. You might expect them to return sounding calmer or more adult, or that they might’ve changed their style up a bit. Nope. Fantasy Empire, the new Lightning Bolt album, is a straight-up face-ripper, a grainy assaultive spree of riffs and drum-spazzouts. If you’ve ever spent an evening sweatily moshing to this band in a concrete warehouse, it should trigger some instant sense-memories. It’s hard and immediate and merciless, and it rules. We’ve posted the early track “The Metal East,” and now you can stream the full album at NPR.

Fantasy Empire is out 3/24 on Thrill Jockey.

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