Take a look at an interview Terence of LOCRIAN did with the blog DELAYED GRAFFITIFICATION and he talked about the new album, upcoming shows and history of the group.

  Esoteric, experimental artisan’s LOCRIAN have entered the studio to begin recording their Relapse Records full-length debut.  The as-of-yet-titled album is being recorded by Greg Norman (PELICAN, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, SERENA MANEESH) at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, IL.  The album will then be mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service.   

    A two-part concept album inspired by the band’s love for prog-rock progenitors Genesis, Yes & King Crimson, this is sure to be the group’s most ambitious recordings to date. Multi-instrumentalist Andre Foisy commented on the new material:
 
“This is our most concise album yet. Our statements developed quickly compared to many of our other releases. We're all really into prog rock and we made this a concept album in musical and lyrical themes.
 
Musically, side A ends in a trilogy of songs and side B ends in a quadrilogy. Each of these two tracks mirror each other in places. In addition to some musical themes that pop up in different places in the album, there are also some musical themes that harken back to our older catalog.”
 
    Tentative track titles include “A Visitation From the Wrath of Heaven”, “Exiting the Hall of Vapor and Light” and “Panorama of Mirror”.  A spring 2013 release via Relapse is expected with more details to be announced shortly..

    LOCRIAN, located in Chicago, IL and Baltimore, MD, has released over 20 recordings on an eclectic array of labels in their relatively short but prolific career, including a recent reissue of The Clearing / The Final Epoch and an upcoming reissue of New Dominions, a split with label-mates HORSEBACK.  The Clearing / The Final Epoch can be found streaming at this location while a preview of New Dominions is available here. 

    LOCRIAN is available for interviews upon request. To speak with the band, simply contact bob@relapse.com. Updated LOCRIAN news / album information will be made available at the Relapse Records website and the LOCRIAN Facebook page.
 

You can hear the Stereogum debut of "Coprolite" here.
"Chicago’s Locrian are probably best known for their collaborations with Horseback and Mammifer, but the now-trio of André Foisy, Terence Hannum, and Steven Hess have released much excellent music on their own. Locrian are usually filed under “metal” due to their musical associations (the above-mentioned names plus Blake Judd from Nachtmystium, Bruce Lamont from Yakuza, lots of others) as well as their label, Relapse Records. But Locrian don’t produce music that bears any tonal resemblance to metal as I know it; they deal in drone-y ambient: spacious, dark, chilling soundscapes that rest uneasily on the periphery of consciousness. “Coprolite” is from their forthcoming release, The Clearing/The Final Epoch (due on 9/14 via Relapse); it’s spare, haunted, and eerily beautiful."
-Michael Nelson

You can go to Pitchfork to stream "Omega Vapors," a track from our upcoming 2xCD. This track was originally released as part of a split LP that we did with Century Plants. There may be a few copies of that split remaining at Tape Drift.

Here's what Grayson Currin had to say about it:

"As they recently did with North Carolina blackened Americana crew Horseback, Relapse makes its entrée into the frightening world of Chicago sound bleeders Locrian with a set, out August 14, comprising some of the band's most excellent and overlooked material. "Omega Vapors", the shorter of their two contributions to a 2010 split called Dissolvers (paired here with 2011's vinyl-only The Clearing and other "rare and unreleased material"), is pure mesmerizing menace. The instrumental opens with a serialized guitar riff that snakes through itself and a keyboard pattern that murmurs in a patois of spooky bass; by piece’s end, though, the guitar has clinches into a fist of squall, while the keyboard obviates its own melody in favor of a deep, drowning roar that's better intuited than analyzed. Conceptually and musically, Locrian often builds altars in praise of ruin; here, "Omega Vapors" is itself that ruin."