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Heal Yourself With Muscle Before Paradise's Post Punk

Listen to a track from the New York City four-piece's upcoming cassette.

Muscle Before Paradise is a New York City post punk band made up of brothers Chandler and Mason Mercer and their high school buddies Tim Peacock and Blair Whiteford.

Mason came up for the idea for the band during summer 2015 while travelling from Saigon to Hanoi on motorcycle. "Everyday I had 5-8 hours of just riding and listening to music …… I had just released a new tape with my solo project , and I was ready to start a full band with similar tendencies, but way darker."

After returning home he started writing demos and following two releases in 2016 the band are set to release their latest cassette that features the track "Lose Weight by Starving the Body", that you can listen to below.

"LWBSTB is the background music for going to extreme lengths and taking dire and painful measures to escape deadly circumstances and get yourself back, whatever that may mean for you," explains Mason.

Catch Muscle Before Paradise at these shows:
May 18 - NYC at Legion Bar*
May 19 - Pittsburgh at The Mr. Roboto Project*
May 20 - Cincinatti at The Warehouse*
June 5 - Philadelphia at Pharmacy
June 7 - Richmond at Crystal Palace
June 9 - Savannah at The Cake Factory
*w/ Darklands