Parking Life is SEUM’s 3rd full-length album (after Winterized – June 2021 and DOUBLE DOUBLE – February 2023) but the first one to add clean vocals and melodies to the downtuned and gnarly bass-only sound the band is known for.
Featuring Vincent Houde from Dopethrone on 666 Problems and mastered by Chris Fielding (Conan, Electric Wizard…), Parking Life should appeal to fans of Weedeater, Bongzilla and Corrosion of Conformity.
Sounding like the blessed child of a drunken one-night stand between Jimmy Bower from Eyehategod and Britney Spears, the album is mixing heavy southern riffs, groove and catchy choruses.
Parking Life is the kind of album that could succeed in opening the SEUM sound to more mainstream ears.
The band will be touring heavily in Canada in May, playing in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before touring Europe in June to keep spreading the album across the ocean.
From the band:
“As we are reaching the middle of our lives, the temptation to settle down, forget our dreams and ambitions is high, this would be the safer choice! Instead we decided “not to park here” and doubled down on music by picking the Parking Life, travelling, playing shows for a hundred or one and exploring what doom’n bass music has to offer.
We also decided “not to park here” musically by getting as far from our comfort zone as we could, adding clean vocals, melodies and treating each song of the album as a pop track.
We sing about loneliness, boredom, unfulfilling careers, addiction and broken hearts, topics all too common when you grow older, but we do it in a fun – no fucks given – way.”
We will all end up in a casket, we might as well dance on the way to it.
Parking Life
will be available on Vinyl through Black Throne Productions, Tape (Regular and limited hand-made editions) through Falling Apart Records, on CD and on all streaming platforms on April 23rd.
Who is SEUM?
SEUM is a bass-only sludge band from Montreal (Canada) formed by Gaspard on vocals, Piotr on bass and Fred on drums.
Inspired by bands such as Eyehategod, Iron Monkey or Weedeater, SEUM spices up its heavy sludge with a hardcore punk energy.
The band is known for its intense live performances, workaholic DIY attitude and nihilistic, tongue-in-cheek lyrics.
SEUM means Venom in Arabic and is French slang for disappointment and frustration:No guitars.
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