Empros

Russian Circles has detailed their upcoming full-length. The record is titled Empros and is due out October 25, 2011 via Sargent House; once out, it'll follow up 2009's Geneva. In the release, the band promises it to be their heaviest album to date (and without a hint of hyperbole):
"Empros picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009′s Geneva left off and injects evermore slithering rhythms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans and Neurosis. Put simply, Empros is Russian Circles' Master of Reality: a radical revision of both heavy and melody that is monolithic in its clarity and perfection. Or, like a lone surviving wooly beast emerging from a brutal winter's frost, Empros is the sound of a band shaking the ages from its shoulders with all the brutal force of a behemoth awakened."