Noise Rap Pioneers dälek Share "Decimation (Dis Nation)" Music Video & Announce New Album Precipice (Ipecac Recordings)

dälek's MC dälek & Mike Mare (CREDIT: Michael Patras)

New Jersey's own Noise Rap group dälek returned late last night with new music. dälek announced the impending release of their eighth album, Precipice, coming this April on Ipecac Recordings. News of the album arrives with the release of the song and accompanying video for the Brickyard Boom-Bap track "Decimation (Dis Nation.)" It was directed by founder Will Brooks AKA MC dälek himself. "Precipice was a completely different record pre-Pandemic," Brooks explains. "We had been working on the sketch of what the album was going to be at the end of 2019. I think, me and (Mike) Manteca had narrowed it down to 17 joints out of the 46 or so that we had started with. Me & Joshua Booth had taken the 17 and really fleshed out the joints. The idea was to bounce them back to Mike and, then, arrange [and] write lyrics. 2020, obviously, had different plans for everybody. We, basically, put everything on-hold."

"I ended up doing the Meditations series that year on my own. I think the catharsis of that project, its rawness, The Pandemic, all the death, the social upheaval, everything that went down... when I went back and listened to what we had down... it just wasn't right anymore. It wasn't strong enough. It wasn't heavy enough. It wasn't angry enough. It just didn't say what I needed it to say," Brooks continued. Predominantly the work of Brooks & Manteca (AKA Mike Mare,) Precipice was recorded and mixed by the two band members at their Deadverse Studios in dälek's hometown of Union City, NJ. Tool's Adam Jones guests (guitar/synth) on album stand-out "A Heretic's Inheritance." The album's cover artwork was created by Paul Romano (Mastodon, Withered) with interior packaging featuring the art of Afro-futurist painter, Mikel Elam. dälek's hotly-anticipated eighth album, Precipice, will be released 4/29 on Ipecac Recordings. Precipice is now available for pre-order in multiple formats.

dälek - Precipice Album Cover (ART CREDIT: Michael Patras)

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