NIGREDO by Bronze Chariot

Debut Album "Nigredo"

Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide. Formed 2008.
New Album "Nigredo" recorded January 2011
Out May 27th 2011 on Capital Games.
Mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud.
Keen for a beer.

Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide. Formed 2008. New Album "Nigredo" recorded January 2011 out May 27th 2010 on Capital Games. mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud. Keen for a beer.

Way back in early 2010, we set out to write an album that represented the band we wanted to be and the albums we wanted to hear. We wrote songs that were inspired by dreams of starting again, the times when Ben wo...rked for long periods in the outback, friendships and families, dead end relationships, drinking, playing in bands, throwing caution to the wind, old town family dynasties and getting by in the lucky country. To capture the live and fluid sound we needed, the songs were tracked live as a band in only one day,with the vocals and guest instruments tracked in the following days. For us, Nigredo has essentially been 158 years in the making. The album not only reflects our past but also guides our future. We hope you find everything that we put into it (Bronze Chariot 2011)

They're quite a lot like The Drones with a little more regimentation and a little less chaos, which in some ways make them the more punishing. Both bands have a taste for that gothic Australiana where drunks and gunslingers, beaten wives and morally bankrupt preachers meet their variously grizzly ends: a little blood to lubricate the axles of the Bronze Chariot. Nigredo, meaning in alchemy blackness and purification, or in psychology the dark night of the soul, here personified as a dark traveler, he brings ruination to all those he meets. A perfect songwriter for this band, I think (4ZZZ 2011).

They're stupidly angry, sound rather like Tom Waits covered by a dirge band put through a cement mixer with the distortion pedals cranked (Spoz Rant 2010)

Nigredo is an album which is quite hard to define. If you can imagine a cross between Nick Cave, Black Sabbath and the Pixies, well, that might sound something like Bronze Chariot (The Dwarf 2011)

Fuzzed out power chords have been replaced by the twang of telecasters and plaintive slide solos. The bass and drums still bludgeon the listener, while the guitars paint a wall of noise that could never have been possible using
their old palette. And through it all, the unholy roar of the vocals. The old paint-stripper wail is still present, but so to is a swaggering growl able to accommodate the less ferocious guitar moments. To try and make an album that captures this cacophony is an ambitious task, but somehow they've pulled it off. Capturing the shimmering definition of the guitars within a sound that is heavy, towering, scary. The album also includes quieter interludes - the opening instrumental, "Brushfire" sets the mood perfectly. On "Hellhound Hymn"and "Horseshoe Bend" the guitarists take turns at vocals, employing a baritone drone which is a marked contrast to the other tracks. Just more great parts summing the even greater whole. Nigredo is clearly the product of a band who have arrived at the sound
they were always meant to make (Nat Stone 2011 / The Burning Sea / Diplomat)

While the music of Bronze Chariot is a lot heavier than anything Nick Cave has ever produced, they definitely have the stage prescience of the veteran Australian rocker (Rave Review 2010)

Bronze Chariot were very impressive and arguably had a more consistent aura about their set. The act looks set to build a solid profile in Adelaide and perhaps beyond within their scene (Faster Louder 2009).

Australian 6 Piece from Adelaide, Australia Formed 2008, now in hiatus. Latest album Nigredo is out on Capital Games. Mostly structure, some improvisation. Loud. Keen for a beer.

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