Premiere: Laborious Chiller Shares New Single “The Wall”
Debut Album BABY! Due Out on August 1st by way of Born Losers Data
Jul 15, 2025
Images by Robert Chavers
Laborious Chiller is a brand new challenge from Steve Choi of RX Bandits and The Sound of Animals Combating and Joe Vannucchi of From Indian Lakes, joined by Casey Deitz on drums and Roger Camero on bass. Collectively, the group performs with a roiling and relentlessly heavy mix of shoegaze, alt rock, and hardcore, one that may flip effortlessly between crushing chaos, rapid-fire rhythms, and swells of dreamy melody.
The band debuted final yr with their EP, Heavy Cell, and this yr they’ve been teasing their upcoming debut LP, BABY! They’ve already shared the album’s lead single, “Hotboxhead” and their follow-up, “Comfortable Journey.” Right this moment, they’re again with a 3rd single from the document, “The Wall,” premiering with Below the Radar.
“The Wall” is probably the most imposing of the band’s newest singles, piling on the riffs and thundering rhythm part however preserving Vannucchi’s melodic vocal supply. The band forgoes atmospheric builds in favor of ripping, distortion-laden guitars, opening with a riff that will really feel proper at residence in a hardcore set. Although the tempo is slower and the instrumentation extra layered than a number of the band’s blisteringly aggressive influences, the tip end result remains to be each heavy and remarkably catchy, exhibiting off the cautious balancing act on the core of Laborious Chiller’s music.
Vannucchi says of the observe, “I believe this track represents the album as an entire in quite a lot of methods. The guitars are punishing, the riffs are enjoyable. The drums go loopy, the vocals are chaotic. By the point it will get to the second half, it shifts right into a 90’s alt rock Weezer factor that I believe represents the opposite facet of the basic Hardcore components of this band. Choi requested me to do a giant, good refrain in a special track, however I ended up doing one thing disgusting and heavy on it, so I made positive to attend till I might ship each songs on the identical time. It labored, he was completely satisfied. Teamwork.”
Take a look at the track under, together with the band’s upcoming tour dates. BABY! is due out on August 1st by way of Born Losers Data. Pre-order the album right here.
TOUR DATES
SEP 25 SEATTLE, WA – NEPTUNE*
SEP 26 PORTLAND, OR – ROSELAND THEATER*
SEP 27 SACRAMENTO, CA – ACE OF SPADES*
SEP 28 ANAHEIM, CA – HOUSE OF BLUES*
ALL DATES WITH THE SOUND OF ANIMALS FIGHTING
