Photo by Eight Gregorio

ETHEREAL is the name of JIVEBOMB’s anticipated debut full-length, and that’s certainly a choice for an album title considering that word is probably more synonymous these days within today’s shoegaze and dream-pop fields than it is the life-questioning hardcore which the Baltimore crew circle the drain around. For vocalist Kat Madeira, the state of being heavenly isn’t so much a sound as it is a state of mind — and destroying what once was of the self — on “ESTRELA”, ETHEREAL‘s latest preview. Over a throttling of drum beats served up ultrafast, corrosive riffs spewing through the speakers, and a nod of Billie Holiday existentialism, the breakdown tears down mere mortals from heaven and earth. “Angels have no thoughts of returning the old me / You stay there complacent / You chose your reality,” she growls, ripping through her old skin and taking on an entirely different form. “I’m new / Stars aligned now point and laugh at you.” If anyone wants to dare step to her and tell her that she’s not of the sky now, best of luck..

Directed by: Noah Haycock

JIVEBOMB’s ETHEREAL will be released March 28th on Flatspot Records.