Industrial chaos and ancestral fire collide in Turian’s breakthrough album Blood Quantum Blues (June 6th). The Seattle unit turns hardcore chaos into a sharpened and spiritual reckoning. Blood Quantum Blues hits like a fever dream set to a war march.
With a metallic hardcore as its launching point, Turian pushes the album through a vortex of industrial electronics, ancestral grief, and controlled fury.
Vocalist Vern Metztli-Moon explains,
“As a Yaqui Indian, this album is about my ancestors, acknowledging their unheard grief and our transcendental connection to one another. It’s also about my decision to confront and break cycles of destruction caused by multiple generations of colonial genocide.”
Turian isn’t a fusion of genres just for the sake of it. It’s the sound of a band chasing down their own identity and tearing through everything in their way to find it.
And that search pays off. Guitarist Ryan Metztli-Moon puts it plainly,
“We are never married to a sound or ideology.”
The result is a record that feels completely untethered with breakneck riffs that are shattered and rebuilt with blasts of synthetic noise. Vocals come not just as screams but as raw and searing invocations. The electronics by Carlye Nyte are rooted in years of experimentation and don’t sit politely in the background. They command space and crash hard.
The lyrics bring a clarity of purpose that’s impossible to ignore and the weight doesn’t make the music feel heavy-handed but necessary. There’s freedom in Blood Quantum Blues, but not the comforting kind. Turian isn’t asking to be understood. They’re showing you exactly who they are. Furious, focused, and finally in control of their sound.
