SEUM - PARKING LIFE - Now Playing
PARKING LIFE - April 23, 2026
Montreal Doom’N Bass powerhouse SEUM returns with Parking Life, the relentless new full-length which shows the band embracing a shift in momentum with clean vocals and sludge metal with a “pop” attitude and sensibility. Known for their bass-driven, no-guitar approach and raw energy, the band delivers a record that feels as chaotic as the world it reflects.
Parking Life represents a turning point for SEUM and it captures them at their most creative. It’s built on punishing low-end and vocal attack that swings between guttural shouts and manic intensity. The album is a gritty snapshot of modern social decay, urban isolation, burnout, and survival in a pressure-cooker existence. It’s loud, it’s abrasive, it’s cheeky and it doesn’t let up.
Sonically, the record sits at the intersection of sludge metal, doom, and hardcore punk, showing inspiration from bands like Dopethrone, Eyehategod, Weedeater and Iron Monkey yet carving out something distinctly their own. The absence of guitars amplifies the weight and shines a spotlight on catchy hooks and bass riffs.
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photo by Esteban Echeverria
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SEUM is a bass-only sludge band from Montreal (Canada) formed by Gaspard on vocals, Piotr on bass and Fred on drums.
Inspired by bands such as Eyehategod, Iron Monkey and Weedeater, SEUM spices up its heavy sludge with a hardcore punk energy.
The band is known for its intense live performances, workaholic DIY attitude and nihilistic, tongue-in-cheek lyrics. SEUM means Venom in Arabic and is French slang for disappointment and frustration: No guitars.
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Directed by Florian Nermont
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From the band:
“As we are reaching the middle of our lives, the temptation to settle down, forget our dreams and ambitions is high, this would be the safer choice!
Instead we decided “not to park here” and doubled down on music by picking the Parking Life, travelling, playing shows for a hundred or one and exploring what doom’n bass music has to offer.
We also decided “not to park here” musically by getting as far from our comfort zone as we could, adding clean vocals, melodies and treating each song of the album as a pop track.
We sing about loneliness, boredom, unfulfilling careers, addiction and broken hearts, topics all too common when you grow older, but we do it in a fun - no fucks given - way.
“We will all end up in a casket, we might as well dance on the way to it.”
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VINYL NOW SHIPPING THROUGH BLACK THRONE PRODUCTIONS
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Parking Life is SEUM’s 3rd full-length album (after Winterized - June 2021 and DOUBLE DOUBLE - February 2023) but the first one to add clean vocals and melodies to the downtuned and gnarly bass-only sound the band is known for.
Sounding like the blessed child of a drunken one-night stand between Jimmy Bower from Eyehategod and Britney Spears, the album is mixing heavy southern riffs, groove and catchy choruses.
Featuring Vincent Houde from the infamous Dopethrone on the track 666 Problems and mastered by Chris Fielding (Conan, Electric Wizard…), Parking Life is the kind of album that could succeed in opening the SEUM sound to more mainstream ears.
The band will be touring heavily in Canada in May, playing in Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before touring Europe in June to keep spreading the album across the ocean.
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“Labrador” offered the first glimpse into this expanded sonic territory. The track captures SEUM’s evolution balancing sludgy low end and an unexpectedly memorable vocal presence and reflects the band’s offbeat and irreverent identity.
One take, one shot, no AI - bite your master.
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photo by Esteban Echeverria
FIND SEUM HERE:
Bandcamp: https://seum.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seumtheband
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seumtheband
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@seumtheband
Label (Black Throne Productions): https://blackthroneproductions.com
-Black Throne Productions - April 23, 2026-