On Friday, October 1st, Scottish/American metal outfit Frontierer released their third full-length album Oxidized, which the band has described as being “our most complete album to date and the heaviest record you will hear until our next one.” The release of the album comes just after the announcement that the group will be performing at ArcTanGent festival in Bristol, alongside the likes of TesseracT, Opeth and Cult of Luna. You can read more about the upcoming festival here.
Frontierer unveiled two singles in the months running up to the record’s release, the first being “Glacial Plasma” and its accompanying music video on August 5th, and then “Opaque Horizon” on the 9th of September. Both singles proved to be faithful harbingers of the overall sound of Oxidized: intense, heavy, and overflowing with squealing, dissonant guitars laden with unpredictable pitch-shifting effects. Vocalist Chad Kapper brings to the table ferocious, high-energy screams that do not let up throughout the album’s near fifty-minute run time, working in tandem with the ever-changing musical landscape.
The album was written, recorded and mixed at Outlier Sound in Edinburgh by Frontierer’s own Pedram Valiani, and features guest performances from Kevin McCaughey of Canadian mathcore band Ion Dissonance, and Grady Avenell of American metal/noise rock group Will Haven.
OXIDIZED is now LIVE on all major streaming services/platforms.
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— FRONTIERER (@frontiererband) October 1, 2021
Frontierer have been active since 2013, and were originally a duo, comprised only of Kapper and producer/guitarist Valiani. They released their first E.P. The Collapse in 2013, which debuted the unrelentingly heavy, dissonant sound that they would become known for, and go on to perfect with their subsequent full-length albums, such as 2015’s Orange Mathematics and 2018’s Unloved.
Almost a year after the release of Orange Mathematics, Frontierer played their first show as a full band at the UK Tech Metal Fest. Unloved was recorded with a full band, featuring the addition of Owen Hughes on drums, Dan Stevenson on guitar and Calum Craig on bass.
Oxidized can be found on all streaming services and is also available on Bandcamp. The group operates mostly through their Bandcamp page and has several vinyl variants of the record available there, as well as CDs and a run of limited edition cassette tapes.
In addition to ArcTanGent festival, Frontierer will embark on a short UK tour supporting Devil Sold His Soul in April of next year. This will be the group’s first UK tour in almost three years. Tickets can be bought at this link, and the dates are listed down below.
04/04/2022- Rescue Rooms- Nottingham
05/04- The Fleece- Bristol
07/04- G2- Glasgow
08/04- Rebellion- Manchester
09/04- O2 Academy Islington- London
