Rangda! They planted a False Flag in the blood-soaked turf
of the contemporary rock-politik. They were Formerly Extinct
before you ever even THOUGHT about giving it up for good!
Now, five years since ascending to collective Rangdadom, the
flower-plower trio are back in your phase! This time around,
Rangda strikes The Heretic's Bargain for you-but have a
care, foolish listener; not only is it an offer you can't refuse,
this here's a deal you can't repeal!
Ever since Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny and Chris
Corsano banded together, the supergroup moniker has
stuck in Rangda's collective craw. We only meant: gee, what
a super group! It's boss stuff, kids! But whatever, and what's
done is done-The Heretic's Bargain takes a nail gun to that
idea's coffin and buries it ALIVE, firmly reinforcing Rangda
as a band with a shared intuition, instead of the sum of
three separate (though insanely great) parts. After years of
recording and touring together, Bishop and Chasny's guitar
playing has mutated via some kind of lateral gene transfer of
their musical DNA, and the rhythms ridden by Rangda feel
mutually funded (though Corsano's beat-making is as fine-
lined and rawly inspired as ever). With The Heretic's Bargain,
it's harder to tell who wrote what, and Rangda (and you) is
better off for it.