EPK – Bat Leather – Dark Arts (2026) (No List Records)
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Band: Bat Leather
Album Title: Dark Arts
Label: No List Records (Vinyl), Super Crunch Records
Release Date: September 4, 2026
Genre: Brutal Minimalist Noise Rock
Location: Calgary, AB / Vancouver, BC, Canada
Track Listing:
1. Dance Craze – 2:00
2. Thursday Inn Sylvan – 1:42
3. Misguided Projects – 1:51
4. Then He Was Pulled Into A Machine – 2:26
5. Technical Aggression – 2:39
Credits:
Cory – Guitar, Bass, Drums, Noise
Luke – Vocals, Noise
Recorded January 2026 at Red Volume Audio in the Badlands, ab by Cory. Vocals recorded in Vancouver, bc by Luke.
Mixed by Cory. No master, no god.
Cover photograph and layout by Cory.
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Bat Leather 7” 2026
There are times when you drop a needle on a record, sit down to listen to it for the first time, and you’re immediately a bit puzzled. Where is this coming from? How do I place this? What genre am I going to put this in when I brag to my friends that I found it first?
Bat Leather makes that type of music. The kind that confronts you, maybe makes you a bit uneasy, on edge, but is immediately engaging. It’s punk, but not. It’s noisy garage rock, but not entirely that. Noisy and then, somehow, noisier. Then there is that nod to the plodding, sludgy sound more often associated with music to get stoned to. It’s a lot, packed into short blasts of sound and fury.
With the overdriven vocals and hyper-distorted guitars punctuated by waves of feedback, this band is heavy. Like, heavy. Puzzling over the sound isn’t the point. “Technical Aggression” captures how Bat Leather can expertly twist feedback into the core of the song, and while “restraint” is not necessarily an accurate word to describe this music, “Dance Craze” is a slow burn, with pounding drums and vocals dragging you through the smoke.
Usually, these write-ups of bands include comparisons or influences, with a tidy wind-up that puts the band into a box of a narrowly defined genre, simplifying things, or lumps them into a scene that makes things familiar. Bat Leather is not that band; their music is not that easy. In the end, you’re left with something complicated – something that rocks and is noisy. It’s heavy and then gets heavier. It’s describable; you can, but never capture everything going on. And it crawls inside you with listen after listen after listen. If “heavy rotation” counts as a genre, well, this is it.
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