As Therapy?’s fourth decade finally gets underway in earnest, sixteenth album "Hard Cold Fire", written and pre-produced during an unprecedented time for music, is hefty, compact, and accessible, a distillation of everything that has made them what they are - hewn from County Antrim basalt, still possessed of their stoicism, but casting a renewed focus on catharsis and healing.

Coming together in Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1989, rock three-piece Therapy? have, over the course of three decades and sixteen studio albums, resolutely carved their own path, from the 'thrown' noise-rock clang of their early mini-albums "Babyteeth" and "Pleasure Death"; to genre-defying mainstream success in the 1990s with Gold-certified albums "Troublegum" and "Infernal Love"; to enduring, cult-hero status in the post-millennial climate.