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Confident, powerful and incredibly well-produced heavy instrumental post-rock! “Wrought” is the 5 track-debut album by the Philadelphia five-piece Hiroe. Combining the elegant, pretty side of post-rock with melodic heaviness, evocative atmospheres and soaring riffs. For fans of: Caspian, If These Trees Could Talk, Thrice, Pg.Lost, Mogwai, Russian Circles, Deftones, Mono, Isis, Pelican and God Is An Astronaut.

Nothing raises the spirit like the soaring guitars and evocative atmospheres of post-rock, and in the past two years we needed it more than ever: to be dragged out of the quicksand of apathy, to be reminded of what it means to feel alive! Philadelphia-based five-piece Hiroe deliver five stunning tracks that serve this purpose more than anything else we've heard this year. “Wrought” is an ode to the resilience and power of the human individual, carrying over feelings of anger, anxiety and loss, but also hope, optimism and self-discovery from the throes of the pandemic era.

The word ‘wrought’ refers to the act of hammering something into shape, but also to fabricating something in the way that it is supposed to be made. In the same way metals can be hammered into shape, humans can also be painfully changed and shaped by the overwhelming roughness and intensity of certain life events. With their debut album “Wrought”, Hiroe created a lasting testament to the resilience that results from this hammering and shaping. Hiroe’s architecture is built over the walls of sound created by the band’s three guitarists towering over the foundation of the huge sounding bass and powerful drumming. The larger-than-life sound of the band is forged by a carefully selected all-star line-up of producers, their debut being recorded by Mario Quintero (Spotlights), mixed by Matt Bayles (Caspian, Mono, Russian Circles, Isis, Pelican) and mastered by Will Yip (Caspian, Circa Survive).

“Wrought” is confident, powerful and incredibly well-produced, combining the elegant, pretty side of post-rock staples like Pg.Lost, Mogwai and God Is An Astronaut with the melodic heaviness of Deftones or Thrice. Somewhere within the soaring riffs and the crushing heaviness of “Wrought” lies a moment in which the listener will find a sonic manifestation of the sublime, a place of reassured hope as well as a thrill of possibility that makes the album an immensely uplifting experience to propel us all through the despondent aftermath of the pandemic era. With these five fiery tracks, Hiroe position themselves as an exciting new player in the heavy instrumental rock world.

Tracklisting:

1. Irusu
2. The Approach
3. Everything Is Fine
4. Black Mountain
5. Doom Moon