Hot off the press, New England psychedelic sludge rockers NOVEMBER FIRE just released their new single 2025 w/ B-side Somnia last Friday, and it’s a scorcher. Following up on their 2024 debut album Through A Mournful Song, 2025 amps up the sludge and heralds the apocalypse with thrashy, sledgehammer riffs.
Steve Howe (Outlaws Of The Sun) wrote: “there’s a haunting Psych Metal and Old School Doom-Metal attitude that’s still relevant as it is today. The vocals are abrasive and quite ugly at times but November Fire employs some freakish Psychedelic melodies that still linger and influence the scene upto this very moment.”
Bobby Rayfield (Monuments in Ruin) wrote: “Warped with visual reverb, dosed in distortion and dragged through sludge soaked amplifiers”
JJ Koczan (The Obelisk) wrote: “you can hear the original thrashy chug at the song’s foundation around which the band’s swirling darksludge is built up. Its five-minute run resolves in a Slayery wash of howling noise, and the shorter Somnia follows, with an almost psychedelic-folk impression, echoing vocals over a space left purposefully part-empty. Two songs, two vibes, and I’m not sure if they’re actually putting it out as a cassingle, but if they are, I entirely support doing so. Imagine you’re at a gig and somebody hands you this tape. Right on.”
Their own words:
“2025, the year we all come to die!” Those words and riffs were written in NOVEMBER FIRE’s infancy in the summer of 1991, and back then we couldn’t have imagined that the song would see the light of day over 33 years later.
“2025 was one of the very first songs we wrote in the summer of 1991. It seemed so far in the future”, says guitarist Dave. “It was influenced by a lot of thrash metal and post-apocalyptic art that was around at the time, especially Sepultura.” Although the song was quickly dropped, the song title became an inside joke within the band.
“I’d like to go to Japan someday.”
“Well, you better hurry, 2025 is only 12 years away!”
With the actual year 2025 fast approaching, the band started playing around with the riff again and realized what a cool song it was. But, it needed some work; the lyrics of the second verse were unintelligible from the old hissy tape they had. Plus, the song was short in its punkish, crossover roots.
“2025 was one of the very first songs we played, so the lyrics were pretty straightforward, basically ‘We’re all going to die!’,” says Terry Aubie, bass player and vocalist. “We had yet to get into writing about societal ills, so this time around, I evolved the lyrics to the greed of mankind driving climate change along with the ‘We’re all going to die!’ parts”. We also extended the bridge and added a crazy psychedelic ending.
The second song, Somnia, features O.G. NOVEMBER FIRE guitarist Greg Brosseau on guitars and lead vocals and keeps with the theme of reviving old material. “Back in 1992, Somnia was a jam that me and Greg used to tinker with at 3 in the morning. We had a bunch of these little cool, weaving guitar lines.” Much like 2025, the song was revived with new lyrics and an expanded arrangement. “It’s a song of awakening, and reflection on where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, and where it will lead,” adds Brosseau on the lyrics.
Like their debut album, 2025 was recorded and mixed 100% D.I.Y. by the band in basements and cars. The cover art was self-produced and drawn by the band as well, featuring a retro cassette card, evoking those summer nights in 1991, when anything was possible…”
November Fire is:
Terry Aubie: Bass, Vocals, Lyrics on Track 1
Dave Hubai: Guitars
Jim Kelley: Drums
Greg Brosseau: Guitars, Vocals, Lyrics on Track 2
All songs written by November Fire
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