‘What are the odds, that kings and gods, and beasts like us, would live forever, cast among the stars’.

Richmond, Virginia three-piece Ostraca return with their fourth full-length, Disaster, and the band’s first release in five years sees them take their emotionally charged hardcore to new heights.  Ostraca’s fundamental sound remains unchanged.  Raw, surging screamo that blends ferocious eruptions of speed, with bouts of crushing heaviness, and intricately crafted passages of reflective, melancholic post-metal.  The vocal delivery ranges from feral desperation to roared death metal growls, while abstractly exploring the current catastrophic trajectory of our environment.  The album’s success lies in its ability to brilliantly fuse these elements in a manner that enables each to speak fluently to the other, not simply juxta positioned, but rather deftly, organically, intrinsically entwined.