TOMMY CONCRETE: To Release "Unrelaxed 2."
December 3, 2019
Edinburgh heavy music veteran Tommy Concrete prepares to release his upcoming album, Unrelaxed 2, with UK label Trepanation Recordings. Concrete's seventh full-length offering will hit the streets on February 28th, 2020 in digital and CD formats. Produced by Bryan Ramage and featuring King Witch's Laura Gilchrist on guest vocals, this ambitious work of progressive blackened doom deals with neurodiversity, ableism, and mental health empowerment.
Tommy Concrete says of the ideas that inspired the album,
"Ableism is discrimination and social prejudice about disabled folk. Internalised ableism is a form of self-hatred people can inadvertently have for themselves when they succumb to the pressures of living within an ableist society, workplace, family unit or music scene.
I was diagnosed as autistic in 2015 and was at the time, depressed about this. I was patronised and looked down on by the majority, and for a while was down on myself. Then I discovered the neuro-diversity movement and became enlightened and empowered as I experienced an awakening. It was apparent to me that I had been suffering, not from being autistic, but from internalised ableism that had been surrounding me my entire life. I became empowered by the movement and ultimately politicised as an individual and an artist."
As a preview of what Unrelaxed 2 has coming, Concrete is releasing a lyric video for the powerful track "Internalised Ableism." Melding shades of Devin Townsend with brutal black metal stylings, the song is a chaotic look at what it's like to fight yourself from the inside.
Check out the "Internalised Ableism" lyric video here:
Pre-order Unrelaxed 2 here:
https://trepanationrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/unrelaxed-2
Album Credits
Tommy Concrete -- guitar, bass, drums, vocals, and composition
Bryan Ramage -- producer
Laura Gilchrist -- guest vocals on "Navigating Hell"
About Tommy Concrete
A hardened stalwart of the UK's metal and punk scenes, Edinburgh multi-instrumentalist Tommy Concrete seeks to promote recovery and positive mental attitude through his music. The prolific songwriter has been likened to Devin Townsend and Killing Joke, with eight studio releases in various heavy subgenres since 2001. Concrete, who has been a member of The Exploited, Man of the Hour, and many more, looks forward to putting out his seventh LP Unrelaxed 2 in February 2020 through Trepanation Recordings.
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