Alternative / Post-Rock band Assertion share heavy-hearted new single “Wounded”

Alternative / Post-Rock band Assertion share heavy-hearted new single “Wounded”

Basking In The Gaslight out July 25th through Spartan Records

Assertion is drummer William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters) and vocalist/guitarist Justin Tamminga

Photo Credit: Keith Stein

Alternative rock meets post-rock band Assertion have perfected the balance of loud and melodic on their new single “Wounded” out today. The track serves as the third preview of the duo’s upcoming album Basking In The Gaslight, set for release July 25h through Spartan Records. The track teeters between melancholy piano, rich bass lines and drums, and a dynamic vocal delivery. The complex arrangement is carried be weighty lyrics of survival. Stream “Wounded” HERE.

Comprised of drummer William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real Estate, Foo Fighters) and vocalist/guitarist Justin Tamminga, Assertion is a band forged in resilience. Built on chemistry, and sustained by the will to keep moving forward, even when everything seems to fall apart. The band introduced themselves with Intermission in 2021, a record marked by raw immediacy and the renewed sense of purpose that came from returning to music not out of obligation, but out of necessity. On follow-up, Basking in the Gaslight the band unleash a raw and deeply personal document of survival, resilience, and emotional reckoning. Assertion wrote and recorded the album through years of upheaval, including a traumatic brain injury, personal trauma, and the isolating weight of lockdown. The result channels pain into catharsis without ever feeling defeated. It’s heavy in both sound and subject matter, driven by unfiltered expression rather than concept, and shaped by a restless desire to heal, reconnect, and grow.

With Basking in the Gaslight, Assertion hasn’t just made a powerful record, they’ve made something that bears witness to endurance – truth, scars and all.

Basking in the Gaslight is available for preorder now through Spartan Records.

Album Artwork

Basking In The Gaslight Tracklist:

1. Lock and Load

2. Please Wake Up

3. Amygdala Hijacking

4. Almost Over

5. Time Won’t Keep This

6. Wounded

7. Don’t Be Such A Stranger

8. Rise

9. Only Forever

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