NewsDecember 15, 2017 5:23 PM ET11,884 views

American Nightmare premiere song, detail new album

Official press release: Rise Records and celebrated Boston hardcore quartet American Nightmare are pleased to announce the band's forthcoming self-titled full-length album. Being released on Friday, February 16, American Nightmare represents the band's rise from the ashes, expanding their legacy and reestablishing the band as titans of the genre in the process. The enigmatic act may have only released two full-length albums since forming nearly two decades ago but after temporarily losing their name, changing members and breaking up, the band has returned with a dark hardcore record that pays homage to groups who have always influenced its sound ranging from Negative Approach, SSD, and The Cro-Mags to those extending beyond the realm of hardcore such as Joy Division and Siouxsie And The Banshees. Check out the first track from the album, "The World Is Blue," now streaming in full on YouTube here:
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Recorded in Boston, MA at Mystic Valley Recording Studio by drummer Alex Garcia-Rivera, American Nightmare features vocalist Wes Eishold, bassist Josh Holden, guitarist Brian Masek and Garcia-Rivera who were all part of the last original lineup of the band that disbanded in 2004 (and somehow American Nightmare even got their highly prized band name back after temporarily changing their name to Give Up The Ghost). The album also signifies the first truly collaborative record the band has written with all members contributing to its creation. Adhering to a writing process inspired by the Smiths yet evokes Black Flag, and is dripping with the angst-driven nihilism that has defined the act since their inception, the album is the result Eisold feels represents the true essence of the band. "In making this record we had one goal: To make a hardcore punk album that was true to American Nightmare, who we were then and who we are now," he says. "No filler, just existential poetic venom. This is ground zero, a new life for the band." For every pit-worthy ripper like "Lower Than Life," there's a more meditative yet equally explosive song like "Dream," and that distinctive dichotomy is something that American Nightmare had always hoped to achieve in its own bleak way that truly transcends hardcore. "Thematically this album is a response to the old lyrics, a reassurance of all of the uncertainties and existential fears," Eisold explains if titles like "Flowers Under Siege" and "Crisis Of Faith" weren't telling enough. "I still struggle daily with whatever lasting depression I unfortunately inhabit in my head; it's deep-rooted and I needed to get this out in this form." Despite his success with acts like Cold Cave and Some Girls, there is a reason why American Nightmare will always have a special place in Eisold's heart and you can feel that while listening to the album. "This is a new start, it really is. We are now in the band we always wanted American Nightmare to be with the lineup, the songs, and the name back," he summarizes. "It feels full circle in the sound of the music referenced earlier, but it also feels complete in that we took the reigns of the band and its past and made a new American Nightmare album … and now we are ready to move forward with it." American Nightmare track listing: 01. The World Is Blue 02. Flowers Under Siege 03. American Death 04. War 05. Gloom Forever 06. Lower Than Life 07. Colder Than Death 08. Dream 09. Crisis Of Faith

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anonymous 12/15/2017 2:30:38 PM

01. The Sheetrock Is Blue 02. Sheetrock Under Siege 03. American Sheetrock 04. Sheetrock 05. Sheetrock Forever 06. Lower Than Sheetrock 07. Colder Than Sheetrock 08. Sheetrock 09. Crisis Of Sheetrock

anonymous 12/15/2017 2:45:31 PM

these DUMB sheetrock comments are ruining this already shi*tty board

anonymous 12/15/2017 2:58:47 PM

one handed clap

anonymous 12/15/2017 3:00:50 PM

Would rather be trapped in the bathroom of Decapitated's tour bus

ineedmoresalt 12/15/2017 3:02:36 PM

They will sell AN gear hand over fist

anonymous 12/15/2017 3:22:19 PM

^I think you mean hand over stump.

anonymous 12/15/2017 3:50:28 PM

shittiest overhyped boring hardcore band reclaims throne of shittiest overhyped boring hardcore band.

anonymous 12/15/2017 4:48:51 PM

pooooop

anonymous 12/15/2017 4:58:49 PM

This band was better when they were called Give Up The Ghost

anonymous 12/15/2017 5:34:17 PM

Handshakes are not stoked

anonymous 12/15/2017 6:06:44 PM

Wow - way to really come back with something refreshing and new there, guys. Really inspired.

anonymous 12/15/2017 6:29:43 PM

They'll never be one of us.

anonymous 12/15/2017 6:44:55 PM

Doug funny comments were way better than sheet rock

anonymous 12/15/2017 7:36:43 PM

Give the band a hand.

anonymous 12/15/2017 8:05:23 PM

This entire farce seems like a giant money grab / fvck you to Tim Bomb. Terrible. Fvck this band, and fvck their FSU overlords. And fvck everything Converge while I'm at it. Shocked / sheet rock / you'll never be one of us, etc. And fvck girls telling on me for flirting with them. Death to 2017.

anonymous 12/15/2017 8:09:08 PM

this reeks of putrefaction

anonymous 12/15/2017 8:21:05 PM

annaliese nielsen hearts this

anonymous 12/15/2017 8:23:27 PM

we're down till we're underground was a good album but its not good 15 years later

anonymous 12/15/2017 8:44:42 PM

Sure Bridge 9 has some half baked idea they'll quarter ass execute to try to capitalize on this.

anonymous 12/15/2017 9:06:16 PM

This is a converge song with different vocals

anonymous 12/15/2017 9:32:09 PM

one thumbs up.

anonymous 12/15/2017 9:58:37 PM

This>the shit you listen to

menstrualmath 12/16/2017 2:43:12 AM

Lol the haircuts

anonymous 12/16/2017 8:40:09 AM

They did a great job of completely sounding like Refused first album (before shape of punk to come which is hugely overrated). The guitars are tuned too high for converge.

anonymous 12/16/2017 8:40:55 AM

Give up tha ghost u suckas can't hang u hatin on true American hxc bitch we a gang! Young Ron pronounced legally dead- put em in tha tomb sucked tha blood out his head - if u been pay attention to the wordz that I've sed - ull know that the voodoo brought me back like honey boo boo- decomposing my skin is molting - teeth are rotting but my grill they applauding- now that u know a lil more about me let ronzilla explain why ur sippin my pee!!

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:02:12 AM

See I was FLOATIN FACE DOWN ronzilla bit tha dust - Gucci sneakers I saw tha reaper I started bang bangin wit my heater! He said its no use im from tha Otha side - u young gangsta are tha latest to die! I lived my life as a pirate not tha kind that catch scurvy..The kind that gets booty bury me in New Jersey...In the dirt for a week tha worms ate young Ron face! My body decomposing fanz visit my headstone often!

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:08:42 AM

Tha OGs pour they 40z show respect to tha young GOAT! Ian mackaye heard tha newz he so shook up he rolled tha blunt! my body tingle like when face down top tha charts wit a new single - i rose up out tha ground there's Haitian spiritz all around! Tha voodoo mama wit tha big ass give me a kiss give me anotha chance - I rise up out tha grave but must collect sex slaves that is the deal that we made ronzilla agree and we shake!

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:24:13 AM

now im creepin thru tha city limited edition supreme hoodie - find a man alone look sickly- knock his ass out grab him swiftly! throw him in tha back seat grab a sneak peak of his meat - it feel big enough i think i drive home use tha back streets - he wake up later that night he tied down to a chair he try ta fight! i make sure he cant scream i use tha ball gag this his worst dream! i emerge from tha shadowz "bought ronzilla pronounced dead!"

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:30:30 AM

i came up out tha grave to catch brain now gimme head! he reluctantly take my undead johnson - my dingus lime-green from tha lack of oxygen - i c-m my 1st zombie orgazm- it sludgy black my goo-phantsm! i say swallow wit enthusiasm say u love it wit no sarcasm! he chokin on my thick dck mucus - check myself in tha mirror i look like i got lupus! or leprosy - i look back at my slave n see he cant breathe it hardened in his throat n melted all his teeth!

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:32:31 AM

MAN, the comments section has really gone to shit. Can't dudes just come together and talk shit???

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:34:04 AM

he dead within minutes i say wtf happen? voodoo mama spirit appear out tha blunt smoke like a dragon! "your undead goom is not like tha living - it re-crystalizes within secondz- u fill they ass wit a load of tar u use they throat u wont get far!" i reply why u only tell me dis now now i gotta go out and catch anotha slave to plow! she say u betta catch up several this is tha deal in ur rapin i shall revel!!!

anonymous 12/16/2017 11:25:48 AM

Not bad

anonymous 12/16/2017 12:08:52 PM

Really makes me want to hear the long-rumored unreleased album that was recorded before the break up after WDTWU, which i assume were all Tim songs. Wonder how they compare! This song is cool.

anonymous 12/16/2017 1:12:43 PM

Ryan Gosling is stoked

anonymous 12/16/2017 4:27:41 PM

This is why the Lambgoat comments section exists. Straight up.

anonymous 12/16/2017 4:28:32 PM

RIGHT BRIGADE IS PISSED.

anonymous 12/16/2017 5:33:18 PM

high gayry

anonymous 12/16/2017 5:33:36 PM

high gayg0try

anonymous 12/16/2017 9:12:54 PM

"pays homage to groups who have always influenced its sound ranging from Negative Approach, SSD, and The Cro-Mags to those extending beyond the realm of hardcore such as Joy Division and Siouxsie And The Banshees. " So it'll sound like none of those.

anonymous 12/17/2017 7:43:55 AM

I'm just laying on some cold sheetrock, stroking my cats hair, and really enjoying my Sunday me time.

anonymous 12/17/2017 12:41:47 PM

The pitch on his vocals sounds terrible

anonymous 12/18/2017 5:58:01 AM

23 minute "full lengths" are stoked

anonymous 12/18/2017 7:28:57 AM

Unenthusiastic crowds with deep pockets are stoked. Now accepting Bitcoin.

anonymous 12/18/2017 8:04:27 AM

so not only are they back to capitalize on shitty hardcore kids... they just sound like nerve agents now

anonymous 12/18/2017 11:22:12 AM

Oh man! This sounds A LOT like Permanent Black and Redemption 87. Look them up - you'll hear it immediately.

anonymous 12/20/2017 5:13:08 AM

Wes Eisoldout brought back American Nightmare for the money and adulation, nothing more, nothing less. Their fans are just that, not hardcore bands and can eat shit.

anonymous 12/20/2017 8:10:16 AM

fcking hot garbage

anonymous 12/20/2017 7:26:17 PM

HEY GUYS ANT SALVAGINO HERE— JUST WANNA LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT WHILE I WAS SUCKIN THE BIG HOMIE DYLAN HOODS dck LAST NIGHT WHILE MY BOY JAHIR STUCK HIS PURPLE MUSHROOM HELMET INTO MY FAT PUCKERED BOYHOLE, UNFOrRTUNATELY ONE OF THEM GAVE ME AIDS AND NOW THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL fck ME IS MY BASS PLAYER CUZ HE ALREADY GOT IT FROM BRETT. SWINGSTYLE WILL BE BACK ASS SOON AS I GET OUT T THE HOSPITAL AND STEAL SOME MORE TUI RIFFS. DOWNSYNDROMESWING 2018 EAST COAST AIDS




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