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HIRAM​-​MAXIM

by HIRAM-MAXIM

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Pressed by the fine folks at Gotta Groove in Cleveland, OH. Each limited edition record has a completely unique one of a kind swirl pattern. Images shown here are for example purposes only.

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    * Please note this is not an actual CD, but a 100 page printed book.

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1.
Visceral 07:00
2.
Can't Stop 11:29
3.
One 11:20
4.
Worship 06:12

about

The self-titled debut album by Cleveland, Ohio band Hiram-Maxim, is set for a March 3rd release. Named for the 19th-century inventor of the Maxim machine gun, Hiram-Maxim plumb the darkest depths of eerie, drunken psych, in line with Pink Floyd's early jams or the creepiest crawlings of Oxbow and US Maple.

Hiram-Maxim's debut consists of four songs, spanning 36 minutes. Frontman Fred Gunn whispers, groans, and howls as he details tragic deaths, self-destruction, and cannibalistic love. Dave Taha's guitars lay down heavy blues then veer out into the uneasy ambience of Moore/Ranaldo space, melding with Lisa Miralia's electronics to create a bed of paranoid textures. On drums, John Panza keeps it sparse and loose, goading the songs along on winding rambles toward their final destinations.

Hiram-Maxim is a free-form, free-falling affair – spacious and improvisational. Live, natural, and totally unsettling, the album sounds as if it was recorded in one take in the attic of a haunted house.

PRESS:
"[Hiram-Maxim's] 'Visceral' builds into an apocalyptic fervor before dissipating into a cloudy haze and ending before you've had your fill. Thankfully there's a whole album of these brutal-but-beautiful goodies." –Vice

"[Aqualamb's] first release of 2015 is a murky psychedelic venture into a darkness that immediately seems familiar to the Ummagumma days of Pink Floyd... The album's congruence of spacious ambience and hissing electronics makes for the kind of pulsing abrasion that's immediately and infectiously rewarding."
–Steel for Brains

"More like an experiment in the deconstruction of sound than an album in the traditional sense... In another universe, one might call it punk rock. Here, it is gleefully and thoroughly fucked up."
–The Obelisk

"Pink Floyd-esque progressive rock nuances and Oxbow-style weirdness... Noisy, psychedelic and just plain odd."
–American Aftermath

credits

released March 3, 2015

Fred Gunn - Vocals
Dave Taha - Guitars
Lisa Miralia - Electronics
John Panza - Drums

Recorded and mixed by John Delzoppo at Negative Space in Cleveland, Ohio and mastered by Chris Keffer at Magnetic North. Designed by Cleveland-based graphic designer Ron Kretsch.

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HIRAM-MAXIM Cleveland, Ohio

Hiram-Maxim hail from the industrial Midwest and blur the lines between noise, industrial, doom, post-punk, and shoegaze.

NEW EP ‘HIVE MIND’ OUT NOW!
NEW LP ‘COLDER’ APRIL 2023. BOTH ON AQUALAMB RECORDS.

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