New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Athens, Greece's Calyces premiere a new song entitled "Unfair Labor", taken from their upcoming new album "Impulse to Soar", which will be out in stores October 16th, 2020 via Bandcamp.
Led by former Tardive Dyskinesia vocalist/guitarist Manthos Stergiou, the band - also featuring guitarist Giannis Golfis, bassist Stelios Tragos and drummer Alex Stavropoulos - will see their debut album issued on October 16. Entitled Impulse to Soar, the quartet’s opening salvo to the world is a broad spanning beast of massive, yet digestible, melodic strains, understated complexity, pulsating dynamics and lots of neat-o baritone vocalizing. Aside from inspirations nipped from the more recent works of the above-mentioned
Mastodon and Baroness, the album also draws from King Crimson, Intronaut, Gojira, major label grunge and those rare moments when Tool aren’t acting like self-indulgent prats. Additionally, the record is aided in its savvy journey by guest appearances from Shining mainman
Jørgen Munkeby and Chrysa Tsaltampasi of Spineless and Bella Fuzz with master masterer Alan Douches bringing it all together from behind the board.
The lead track called "Unfair Labor" which Stergiou describes as: "‘Unfair Labor’ is about the deadline stress at work, a situation I often encounter. It felt like it needed a horn instrument to drag a solo out in the repeating, long riff at the end, pretty much in the classic King Crimson way. So, I approached
Jørgen Munkeby from Shining, since their Blackjazz album is one of my favorite records ever. I sent him the track along with some notes and that was it. The most amazing part was that his recording was live-streamed through his personal Facebook page. That was probably the best quarantine day ever."