Judiciary Premiere New Single & Music Video "Wall Of Skulls" From Upcoming New EP “Stalagmite Angels”

Texan metalcore outfit Judiciary will release their new conceptual EP “Stalagmite Angels” on September 4th via Closed Casket Activities. Phil Odom handled production duties for the upcoming five-track effort, which was later mixed and mastered by GRAMMY Award-winning musician/producer Will Putney. “Wall Of Skulls” serves as the first single from the effort, with the band collectively describing it as:

“…A monument to a new era of Judiciary that stands on the foundation of our past. It’s an ode to hardcore and the underground scene that we know and love—it’s what made us who we are today. And though we’ve ventured into different realms of heavy music since Judiciary began, every single time we return with new skulls to add to our little slice of the underground.”

Director Wes Ellis was behind the accompanying music video for the track.

A press release described the record as follows:

”Stalagmite Angels‘ is an EP about anger at the world, belief in yourself, and how harnessing both in the pursuit of growth is necessary to achieve. But furthermore, it’s a concept record that envisions a subterranean world in both a literal and metaphorical sense—where hidden beauty lurks in the shadows (and in the eye of the beholder) and where triumph manifests in the ability to rise from the depths and into the world above.’

The cult classic horror film ‘The Descent’ was among the inspirations cited for the record. Regarding the musical direction of the release, drummer Austin Looney shared:

“The goal with this EP was a hard reset, but we also wanted to chill the fuck out a bit, have fun, and do something that felt true to the four of us. We wanted time to reconfigure things and let the music come naturally–temper this new mindset that we’ve adopted post-‘Flesh + Blood‘.”

Frontman Jake Collinson, who also contributed to writing guitar parts for the outing, added:

“90s hardcore and hardcore in general is always gonna be our natural inclination, but it manifests with different elements not only from song to song but within each song. Whether that’s Dying Breed or Cannibal Corpse or Crowbar or Machine Head or any number of other influences that any one of us may have, it all manifests in our work, and through our individual and collective lenses. With this EP, we transformed those ideas into the Judiciary approach.”

“Stalagmite Angels” track list:

01 – “Wall Of Skulls“
02 – “Sanguine Reality“
03 – “Hymns Of A Calcified Warpath“
04 – “Soul Sutra“
05 – “Death Knell“