Russian Circles return with their fourth and heaviest album release to date ~ but with "Empros" they are poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of genre. "Empros" picks up where the anthemic riffs and melodies of 2009's "Geneva" left off and injects slithering ryhthms amid skull-crushing heft with all the visceral intensity of Godflesh, Swans, and Neurosis. "Empros" is Russian Circles' Master of Reality, a radical revision of both and heavy melody that is monolithic in it's clarity and perfection. Produced by Brandon Curtis (Secret Machines, Interpol).