“Out of love.” In 2023, Atlanta legends Irreversible reunited to play a show with now-retired Godflesh. I took the opportunity to go through the band’s discography and map their career trajectory. Three years later, Jacob Franklin, Zach Richards, and Billy Henis are back with the band’s first new album since 2015’s self-titled swan song. As I wrote back in 2023, Irreversible felt like the band, after assiduous experimentation a few years earlier, consciously returning to their roots to pay homage to their forebears as well as to their own understanding of what their band had been. A kind of self-knowing amor fati.  With Vessel, released … Continue reading “Out of Time / Out of Life”: Irreversible‘s Vessel