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CHURCH TONGUE From the second that “Heart Of Darkness” kicks off You’ll Know It Was Me, the new EP from Church Tongue, it sounds like that’s exactly where the Midwest band have journeyed for this record’s inspiration. Across its six songs, brutally abrasive guitars mix with vicious, guttural vocals, riff after punishing riff. Each track sounds like being stuck inside a nightmare, only to be violently ripped from it when it ends. But there’s no respite—before there’s even time to take a breath from the harrowing dream state, you’re plunged immediately into a new one. But sonic appearances can be somewhat deceiving. The band—vocalist Mike Sugars, guitarists Nicko Calderon and Chris Sawicki, bassist Jack Sipes and drummer Kyle Spinell—actually describe You’ll Know It Was Me as a “a short record about love that each track touches on in its own way.” “Thematically,” explains Calderon, “Mike wanted to write about the different kinds of love and the different ways that you can love—for example, loving yourself enough to end a toxic friendship, or loving yourself enough to become sober. And the very last song is quite literally a love song for him and his wife, about how if he dies before her, he will haunt her forever.”

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