Elias Black is a five-piece post-grunge rock band from Phoenix, Arizona. Fronted by none other than Elias himself, the group explores toxic relationships, codependence and inability to escape in their upcoming debut album Reclamation. With inspirations ranging from Queens of the Stone Age to Nick Cave to Nine Inch Nails, Elias Black explore a depth of sonic delivery with heavy, droning guitars that softly fade from track to track creating an emotional, driving experience.
“All of the music that you hear (and across the entire record) was tracked live, straight to tape. There was no click track, no pitch correction, etc. We played the song (all together) and Steve Albini recorded it.”
Alt-rocker Elias Black’s darkly cathartic album, Reclamation, is a fuck you to loss, and professional and personal upheaval. It’s a vulnerable and vicious masterwork made in the face of great adversity. Welcome to a black celebration.
Elias Black brings to the live band medium the ominous emotionality, twisted textures, and dissonance of industrial music. His songwriting is characterized by barbed hooks and organic musical interplay. The Elias Black aesthetic is steeped in 1980s dark wave, punk rock, and alternative rock.
The record opens with “Fire.” The track begins with funereal ambience and explosively employs loud-soft dynamics contrasting heaving sections with chilling atonal quiet parts. The vocals reflect this, vacillating between despondency and raging anger. Other album highlights are “Blood” and “Leaving.” “Blood” begins hauntingly, like you’re waiting for the song to snap and lash out, and patiently builds up tension until it climaxes with satisfying vitriol. It’s almost anthemic in its emotional fortitude. “Leaving” is a chilling slow burner that builds to a stately outro.
“I’ve been alone a lot recently, away from the people that I love for weeks on end. That song is about the effect of that, it exhausts you and tests you as an individual. It tests your relationships,” reveals Elias.
Reclamation is now available for download and on streaming services everywhere.
Reclamation
1. Fire
2. Blood
3. Dollar
4. So Long
5. Cold Devotion
6. Hurt is Power
7. Parasite
8. Hands
9. In the Pines
10. Back
11. Leaving
