Founded in 2000, Car Bomb celebrate their 25th year with the release of a new EP Tiles Whisper Dreams which will be out 1st August, 2025. Consisting of three new tracks, Tiles Whisper Dreams is the band's first new music to be released since 2019's Mordial album. The band have released the second track 'Blindsides' which is now streaming at the link below.
Car Bomb guitarist Greg comments on the video: "The idea behind the 'Blindsides' video was to create a vibe of montage or fake trailer for a fictitious 80s animated movie where the visuals match what is going on with the music. Some of the inspiration behind it was Akira, Aeon Flux, Studio Ghibli and David Lynch."
About the track, Greg continues: "'Blindsides' is the most unique sounding song on Tiles Whisper Dreams and for me sounds most like the song I’ve been trying to write for the past 25 years: lots of heavy riffs made from unique guitar sounds played over tricky but groovy rhythms punctuated by moments of shoegaze bliss. It’s such a cliche but I really tried to take listeners on a journey with this one, and I can’t wait to see them take the ride when we play it live through a huge festival PA."
In a genre built on shock and awe, it is tough to be shocking or awe-inspiring these days. With metal in its sixth decade, making an impact is an increasingly difficult feat. The ceiling is red with the blood of straight-line shredders futilely competing for the attention of desensitized ears.
Car Bomb is that rare metal band that have found a pathway through the ceiling – a wormhole, if you will – and have occupied a position of radical transcendence for a quarter-century now. In their 25 years of existence, the New York City-area quartet have been sculpting their own signature sound and cementing their identity as an outlier, above the fray, inspiring a legion of younger musicians in the process.
Car Bomb's sound is that of perpetual transformation: a spiraling flurry of rhythm and texture that congeals, fleetingly, into planet-pulverizing death-grooves and fragments of haunting melodies. Baffling rhythmic modulations and deep-space guitar effects appear to warp time completely. Disorientation is the rule, not the exception.
"Their psychotic turbo-thrash is disgustingly disorienting," reads one Kerrang! review. "One relentless onslaught of time-chopping violence."
A Stereogum review describes the style as "a rhythmically abstruse variety of extreme metal... hallucinatory time-stretching."
Car Bomb guitarist Greg Kubacki puts it like this: "When someone asks me what we sound like, I always ask them ‘what’s the heaviest band you listen to?’ and then I say it’s either 10x, 100x, or 1,000x crazier than that, depending on their answer. We aspire to create our own style of heavy music by bending everything: the notes, time signatures, tempos, sonic quality of the guitars, etc. We’re always pushing and pulling everything, ripping ideas apart and then squashing them back together. And as a result our songs might sound chaotic at first, but as they progress the patterns, grooves, and motifs embedded inside all of the mangling and warping will reveal themselves and evolve in unexpected ways. Most people won’t get that deep into our stuff and will just hear a pile of noise, which is fine with us. We’re creating the kind of music we want to hear and that’s all we care about."
Car Bomb will tour Europe and the UK in August, including dates with Gojira, Between the Buried and Me, and Imperial Triumphant.
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