Pearl Jam Unleashes ‘Dark Matter,’ Sets New Album

Pearl Jam is again, and so they’ve returned to heavy.

After throwing a listening celebration final month for a brand new album that frontman Eddie Vedder described as their “best work,” followers in all places can now check that concept.

The Rock Hall-inducted Seattle legends unleash “Dark Matter,” a muscular romp of energy chords, in-your-face bass, drum fills and a late solo that might reduce a can in half.

“Dark Matter” leads the way in which for the album of the identical identify, due out April 19.

That twelfth studio LP is the followup to 2020’s Gigaton, which peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart and was described by some devotees as their most experimental album but.

Based on the three-and-a-half minutes of “Dark Matter,” this subsequent part will rock. Stream it beneath.

One of the nice bands to emerge from the grunge period, Pearl Jam has landed 12 prime 10s on the Billboard 200, together with 5 No. 1s. Vedder and Co. have been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, becoming a member of Journey, Electric Light Orchestra, Yes, Tupac Shakur, Joan Baez and Nile Rodgers.

Vedder, lead guitarist Mike McCready, and bass participant Jeff Ament premiered the forthcoming album at a listening celebration in West Hollywood final month, attended by a number of hundred household, mates, business professionals and reporters, the Associated Press reported.

“You all get together as a group as we’ve been doing for 30-plus years and you say, ‘Let’s try it again,’” Vedder reportedly instructed friends from the stage as he launched the document. “No hyperbole, I think this is our best work.”

Producer Andrew Watt reportedly recorded the LP at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La studio in Malibu, California.

“We made this record like a year ago,” Ament instructed onlookers on the listening celebration. “We’ve been sitting on it.”

Pearl Jam will get an opportunity to street check their new tunes with a run of trans-Atlantic dates this summer season, together with a headline spot at BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley, CA, on May 25, and competition spots on the Iberian Peninsula in July.