The heaviness that Emma Ruth Rundle is able to achieve on her new record Engine of Hell is an elemental force that transcends any discussion around the volume of her music. Released on Sargent House, the record is a complete solo affair with all of it’s eight songs sung and performed by Rundle with either piano or acoustic guitar as accompaniment.
With her early beloved projects such as The Nocturnes, Red Sparowes and Marriages—as well as her fantastic solo records—Rundle had always found the balance between doom-infused metal, post-rock, and crystalline gothic folk. With this album, she has stripped away all of the pummeling drums and sludgy distortion of her previous work to make a record that is overwhelming with it’s honesty and intimacy.
On this episode of In Conversation, Rundle discusses the solo adventure of writing and recording Engine of Hell, how finding dance helped her as she now lives a life of sobriety, the joys and pitfalls of being the “solo female singer on metal bills,” her amazing collaborative albums with metal greats Thou and so much more.
Previous Episodes of In Conversation:
- Mac McCaughan
- Marissa Nadler
- The Beths
- Hand Habits
- Deerhoof
- Bush Tetras
- Full of Hell
- Tropical Fuck Storm
- Caleb Landry Jones
- Chubby & the Gang
- Museum of Love
- Anika
- Cassandra Jenkins
- Steve Turner of Mudhoney
- Current Joys
- Tom Scharpling
- Sarah Lund of Unwound
- Genghis Tron
- Ben Swank of Third Man Records
- The Men
- Rick Maguire of Pile
- Damien Jurado
- Slim Moon of Kill Rock Stars
- Caveh Zahedi