Photo by Joshua Zucker-Pluda & Sean Stout

It’s never been an intent of Uniform to make their listeners feel at ease when listening to their body of work, but “Permanent Embrace” reaches a new level of that. Vocalist Michael Berdan’s struggles with bulimia nervosa are central to that violence within the Brooklyn noise rockers’ new LP, American Standard, and on its latest track (and album closer) he’s blasting its ugly face metaphorically through crushing effect as the disease entangles those in its periphery like a co-dependent car crash about to burst into flames. Berdan and guitarist Ben Green alongside the flesh of a full band in drummers Michael Blume and Mike Sharp alongside Interpol bassist Brad Truax engulf that through arguably their most heaviest, mechanical metal moment yet before the machine it builds is eviscerated in towering doom synths. This is some horror film level of honest to godless terrifying shit, but this is also real life.

Directed by: Sean Stout

Uniform’s American Standard will be released August 23rd on Sacred Bones Records.