Sydney’s Dirt City inaugurate themselves to authentic, riff-craving fans everywhere with the release of their self-titled debut EP today.
Establishing an emphasis on their own musicality and reimposing the roughness missing from modern metal, Dirt City doesn’t shy away from the grit and dirt, instead, they flourish in it. Their six-track debut body of work is produced by Nathan Sheehy (DZ Deathrays, Birds of Tokyo) and mastered by Grant Berry (Redhook, Fangz). It signals the consummate offering of the sonic space and soundscape the band will reintroduce to a flock of heavy fans, craving the soul and grime of the riffage. Unedited and unapologetic, Dirt City renounces the overproduced climate of modern bands and instead accentuates the palpable and human feeling that the genre should bring.
On the premise behind the project, Dirt City said, “Metal’s been lost in a game of one-upmanship. We’re taking the ego out and letting the song take the limelight. There’s a tonne of bands in the scene trying to play as fast as possible, with click tracks, backing tracks, pitch correction and all these other supports. We’re sick of that. We want our music to be out there raw; no trickery, just metal. No loopers, no backing tracks, no clicks – we think audiences want to hear the guys in the band, not computers – and that’s our priority.”
