The Electric Mud are excited to announce their return, encouraged by friends, family, and the brass at Small Stone Records. As a band they believed they had more to say, and that their best music was still in front of them. They believed the ideas and creative philosophy that brought the band to life and to the precipice of so many exciting things just a few short years ago had to be carried to the next point in their evolution. A new full length album, it was decided, was the best way to make that statement.
During the writing sessions a theme emerged: Mankind’s obsession with its own destruction. Where did it come, and where will it take us? The Electric mud intended to examine some of the darker angels of our nature, and set it to music. Decamping to Juniper Recordings in Cape Coral, Florida, and bringing Caleb Neff aboard not just to engineer the record but produce it created an open and creative environment in the studio that’s integral to the sound. There is a deep collaborative bond stitched into the fabric of the record, a collection of heavy sounds and ideas that are truly egalitarian in nature. The point is emphatically driven home with a fantastic mix by Ben McLeod, studio wiz by day, guitar demigod for All Them Witches by night. The resulting record, Ashes and Bone, has been a labor of love, and a reminder of what they love about music and each other.
Boasting a heavier, more aggressive sound that owes as much to the sludgy, prog inflected ferocity of Soundgarden or Mastodon as it does the eerie proto-metal riffing of Black Sabbath and soulful, energy of Graveyard, the band feels Ashes and Bone is a firmly taken musical step forward into the future as much as it is the sound of a band taking care of unfinished business.