ALITILA - SPRUCE (CASSETTE)

THIS IS A PRE-ORDER ITEM
MAILED WEEK BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE

Cassette, limited to 100 copies
Release date 28.3.2025

Spruce is the debut album from US/Finland-based trio Alitila. Based around themes of nature, somewhat ironic given its roots in industrial and extreme metal, the release has been years in the making and arrives with a scathing, sometimes danceable, presence of its own.

Against a backdrop of low drones, harsh synth, weighted beats, melodic flashes and chaotic screams, a Finnish producer and a conceptualist and US-based vocalist explore spaces mechanically churning and emotionally dense in kind, colliding the organic and the inorganic in a willful desire to create a singular, multifaceted sonic identity.

By combining diverse influences, pushing each other to be weirder, harsher, meaner -- sometimes prettier -- ALITILA emerge with this debut release likewise punishing and immersive. Themes of chaos inside and out transpose onto visions of the natural world affected by anthropocene shortsightedness, resulting in a progressive brutality not entirely animal but beyond common software exploration and looking to plunge further.