Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it—every contour, every impulse, every shadow unmistakably theirs. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those rare cases. “Solo project” isn’t even the right phrase. This is Bussanick unfiltered: vocals, guitars, synths, bass, and—for the first time in three decades of recorded work—drums.
Today, we’re premiering ‘Heaven’s Night,’ the closing track from Bussanick’s debut EP, Pull to God, out December 5 via Spring Effete.
If you’re familiar with Bussanick’s body of work—Aeviterne’s eruptive dissonance, Flourishing’s cerebral churn, even the long-buried mutations of Cardiovascular Sub-Hypothermia—you’ll recognize the DNA. But Sire Languish is its own creature. The architecture is leaner, the melodic angles sharper, the rhythmic pulse more direct. The rep nailed it: imagine a convergence of Immolation’s tectonic lurch and Killing Joke’s apocalyptic propulsion, rendered with the nervous-system precision Bussanick’s become known for.
‘Heaven’s Night’ pushes that dynamic into widescreen. It’s the EP’s most melodic track, but “melodic” here is the same way Aeviterne is “accessible”—by accident, and only if you squint. The guitars braid tension and release, shifting between knotted intervals and grim, driving lines. Bussanick’s drumming is surprisingly physical: there’s a looseness around the edges, a very human insistence that lights the whole track from underneath. And the vocals… he’s not overselling it. This is easily among his most emotive, full-throated performances.
In Bussanick’s own words, Sire Languish is “a home for my more melodic, accessible ideas that are still rooted in the original inspirations for CS-H.” Which tracks. If Aeviterne is the labyrinth, then Sire Languish is the straight corridor at the center—still dark, still claustrophobic, but unmistakably forward-moving.
Pull to God was recorded and mixed by Ryan Jones at Growlhouse Studios, and mastered by Colin Marston, which explains why it sounds like something trying to claw its way out of your monitors.
Hit play below and let ‘Heaven’s Night’ take its shape in real time.
