Return To Disruption

Melbourne, Australia based trio Grey Daturas draw sonic influence from a vast ocean of musical styles including free jazz, the avant-garde, psychedelic rock, punk, metal, industrial, and noise. Grey Daturas have developed a blend of harsh and dark psychedelia unmistakably their own.

From their more nihilistic, sheer noise-based beginnings improvising soundtracks to silent horror classics and sixties physics animations, Grey Daturas have over the course of the last six years morphed into a surreal auditory nightmare, blending dark pulsating drones, slow low-end sludge riffs, crushing percussion, and walls of ear-torturing noise.

Now three and a half years since the release of their globally acclaimed second album Dead in the Woods, and following numerous EPs, splits, and collaborative releases with the likes of Yellow Swans, Monarch, Bardo Pond, and Wolf Eyes, Grey Daturas have unearthed their finest and most challenging work, their highly anticipated third album, Return to Disruption.

As with all follow-up releases, comparisons to the predecessor are inevitable. Between Dead in the Woods and Return to Disruption, the most obvious difference is the improved production values. Where Dead in the Woods took a modest month to complete on 8-track tape, Return to Disruption spanned a lengthy 18 months on 24-track tape. 'Copper/Silver', their collaboration with United States band Yellow Swans, was voted as one of the best 'avant-rock' releases of 2005 by The Wire magazine, on Neurot Recordings.