Chasms will release On The Legs Of Love Purified on October 14 via felte. Chasms are currently on tour in support of On The Legs Of Love Purifed. The tour will make stops in San Fransisco, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Chicago and more.

Chasms is the San Francisco based project of Jess Labrador and Shannon Madden. The duo crafts percussive dirges that are at once beautiful and menacing. Labrador’s haunting vocals and hypnotizing guitar work wade between rhythmic bass lines and bursts of Madden’s stinging feedback, laid on a bed of pummeling drum programming. The band’s affinity for industrial rhythms, swelling textures, precise minimalism, and chaotic eruptions of noise sounds as equally informed by shoegaze as drone and doom metal—to choose just one would be a disservice.

On The Legs Of Love Purified is the band’s debut full-length album. Written over the course of several years, the album explores the healing force of love and the exorcism of pain that inescapably accompanies it. Light cannot exist without dark, bliss without suffering. …Love Purified conjures this atmosphere of duality as it drifts through an expanse of emotion.

While this is Chasms’ debut, they’ve been an active duo since 2012. They’ve released the When It Comes EP (Dream, 2012), Riser (Dream, 2014) EP and the “Bad Evolution” single (Sleep Genius, 2012). They then collected a majority of the two EPs on the Subtle Bodies compilation album (Sleep Genius, 2014).

The Legs Of Love Purified: Tracklisting

On The Legs Of Love Purified Track List
More Love To Be Found
Black Ice (stream)
Beyond Flesh (stream)
We’ll Go (stream)
Come To Harm
Intimacy
Between The Eyes

Chasms Tour Dates

10.11 San Francisco, CA @ The Knockout ^
10.13 La Puente, CA @ Bridgetown DIY ~
10.14 San Diego, CA @ The Whistle Stop *
10.15 Long Beach, CA @ 4th St. Vine
10.16 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echoplex (Part Time Punks) +
10.29 Berkeley, CA @ KALX (Live Session + Interview)
11.08 Indianapolis, IN @ State St. Pub
11.10 Detroit, MI @ UFO Factory
11.13 Montreal, QC @ Vitrola
11.14 Boston, MA @ Zuzu
11.15 Providence, RI @ Machines with Magnets
11.16 Brooklyn, NY @ Shea Stadium =
11.18 Cleveland, OH @ Locker Room
11.19 Chicago, IL @ TBA
12.10 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo >

% w/ Sean Pierce, Patricia Hall
# w/ Odonis Odonis
^ w/ Silver Shadows, Sirena Victima, DJ Nako & Cash Askew
~ w/ Second Still
* w/ Black Marble
+ w/ Black Marble, Ritual Howls
= w/ Holy Wave
> w/ Merchandise, Gun Outfit