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"Black Arcs Rising" is the third studio album by Swedish rock trio Statues. Recorded at Svenska grammofonstudion in Gothenburg, this 12 track full-length release brings back the imperishable soundscapes of 90's alternative rock while showcasing Statues' melodic, direct, and intense approach to songwriting. "Black Arcs Rising" is produced and mixed by Christian Ramirez who also adds additional guitar on the tracks "Perfect Storm", "Sardonic Grin", and "Eyes in the Sky", and mastered by Magnus Lindberg. The album features guest vocals by Per Stålberg on "Phantasm", "Dead of Summer", and "Hiding in a Hole", and art direction by Joel Dunkels. As with Statues 2020 album "Holocene", "Black Arcs Rising" is released by Swedish independent label Lövely Records. The band comments: The title warns of worse times. Black Arcs can be seen in a chart, but it can also mean that there are black arcs rising from the ground that warn of worse times. Our texts are often prophetic by accident. The last record, Holocene, had a song called Lockdown and then came the pandemic. The lyrics are as usual of the darker kind, but there is also a kind of black humor in the absurdity described. If you do it wrong, things will go to hell and therefore it must be warned about the madness that exists. It may already be too late to save the world as the doomsday clock is close to midnight, but by pointing to the absurdities of environmental destruction, consumerism, capitalism, the annexation of other countries and an unwillingness to change behavior, we are doing what we can to encourage change.

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• Available on all streaming platforms and in two color variants on vinyl; transparent green vinyl with red splatter, and solid white vinyl (each limited to 500 copies).
• Recorded at Svenska grammofonstudion in Gothenburg, with producer Christian Ramirez (Park Hotell, Dödsfest, Mattias Alkberg BD). Mastered by Magnus Lindberg (The Hellacopters, Tribulation, Henrik Palm, Refused, Stiu Nu Stiu, Cult Of Luna, and many more).
• The trio has been playing together in different constellations since 1991, and the members have been heard through bands such as Starmarket, KVLR, and The Vultures.
• Features guest vocals by Per Stålberg (Pablo Matisse, Division Of Laura Lee) on ”Phantasm”, ”Dead of Summer”, and ”Hiding in a Hole”.
• ”Black Arcs Rising” is the third album by Sweden's Statues. This 12 track full-length release brings back the imperishable soundscapes of 90’s alternative rock while showcasing Statues’ melodic, direct, and intense approach to songwriting.
• For fans of Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Omni Of Halos, and legendary alternative labels like SST and Dischord.

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Statues play a joyous mix of post-punk, indie and SST style noise with wonderful, boisterous, melodic tuneage very much to the fore

     —THE BALLROOM BLITZ, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6970333457602

Underground,' moves with a cascading sense of time and space. 'Sardonic Grin,' rolls with the punches and hits the majestic spheres hard. 'Phantasm,' turns the pressure onward and grows with turning spheres. 'Hiding In A Hole,' roars and cascades...

     —The Media Man, https://www.themedianman.com/statues-black-arcs-ri