Industrial band Panic Lift continues the unraveling of its themed EP release cycle with the band’s first release of 2022 titled Stitched. This four song EP features two new songs titled “Every Broken Piece” and “Bitter Cold” with remixes from Mechanical Vein and Tragic Impulse.
Lyrically, “Every Broken Piece” and “Bitter Cold” continue with the familiar themes of stress, coping, and concerns of self-image. Hardcore Panic Lift fans may remember “Every Broken Piece” from Panic Lift’s lockdown shows in 2020 that were broadcast online during the height of the COVID19 pandemic.
For Stitched, Panic Lift explores a harsh ebm sound more stylistically similar to their landmark debut record Witness To Our Collapse. James Francis explains “I’ve always tried to find a happy medium between what I’m doing now, and where I started” he continues “but now that I’m doing smaller releases, I have the ability to experiment with different styles without having to worry much about how they fit with the rest of my catalog”
Stitched is available on digital platforms everywhere including Bandcamp!
Following up their successful collaboration last year when Panic Lift remixed Mechanical Vein’s “TAKN'” which racked up a quarter of a million streams on Spotify, Mechanical Vein returns the favor with an industrial bass-inspired remix for “Bitter Cold.” Distortion Production’s Tragic Impulse infuse synthpop sensibilities with a hard edge into their remix of “Every Broken Place'.
Panic Lift continues offering different types of merchandise associated with each release and will be accepting pre-orders for the 'Triangles' T-Shirt during the cycle for Stitched. This will be the first time this design is available online since selling out quickly into the band's last tour.
Independent Cleveland-based alternative electronic duo, She 1 · Him 2 have released their new single; a cover of David Bowie’s classic 'Fame' featuring Steven Seibold (Hate Dept./Pigface) on guitar. The band features darkwave rocker and former Lestat front-man Evan Nave and Cassie Bishop of Shy Moon. The duo teamed up with producer Michael Seifert (Tori Amos, Paul Simon and many other Grammy award winners) for the project.
As a young boy, Evan would dance to 'Fame' by with his mother in their living room almost every night. This was the basis for choosing that track as their latest song. It's a true love letter to David Bowie, the legend who inspired a future musician, Evan (aka Him) and his female collaborator, Cassie (aka Her).
The band is releasing tracks over time to fill out their first full EP in the age of the pandemic. All music and videos have been filmed without either of member seeing each other in person. Over the past few years, they have released 'Split the Line' and “Spoken Words to Light”. They are currently working on two more tracks to be released in the coming year.
'Fame' is available on digital platforms including Bandcamp now!
Expressionist Electronic Band, Nahja Mora Bring Self-Destruction & Mental Health Issues To New Album
Expressionist electronic band, Nahja Mora has just unveiled their new full-length album, AHFHAOTA.
AHFHAOTA is a reaction to constant aggressions, profiling, and language barriers: lashes that crush a struggling and abused psyche. The album is a story of mental health issues and self-destructive impulses that keep weighing down the narrator until something tries to destroy them. It is a dark ride.
The songs on AHFHAOTA deal with themes of addiction, alienation, misanthropy, traumatic death, drug use, manipulation, conflict, escape, modern society [social networking] and sexual assault.
AHFHAOTA is available digitally via Bandcamp NOW.
Album Statement:
'The speaker is unable to communicate or relate. They recognize that to relate they must exploit themself. Exploiting themself brings them closer to that goal but for what purpose? to simply store those communication goals away as a memory? The feeling is being more than what they are is simply a fool's wish. So why bother? The speaker turns to escape-- a hedonist romp without caring to survive.. They unfortunately survive.
The speaker is surrounded; their loved ones are concerned. The speaker lies to get by. The speaker hates and hates and sees the world burning. The world and its pictures condition the speaker to violence. The speaker returns to self-destruction. The speaker knows the truth but does not care. Then the speaker feels the weight. They are drowning. They are breaking themselves apart. They cannot keep themselves safe, and neither can you.
Now the bleeding begins. When you try to stand back up, things continue knocking you down. The summary of years of work is vile abandonment. You get away but society in another form continues tearing your soul apart. So give in to the darkness. Abandon the ones who claim they love you. Go out into the field and... be destroyed.'
Industrial Band, Dread Risks in conjunction with Re:Mission Entertainment have unveiled the new full-length LP, Automated Disappointment. Utilizing the vessel of nine new original dark, pulsing sermons, the industrial duo builds on an already relentless attack with further incorporation of melody amidst sonic torment.
Automated Disappointment is the chronicle of effort always resulting in some form of failure and the hostility that ensues. From the brutal confinement of plodding tracks like “Bound Limbs” and “You Sleep In The Shroud That Buried Me” to the haunting melodic beats of “Trace Amounts” and “Extinction Form”, Dread Risks enthralls the listener into familiar nightmare desperation.
The mass accumulation of endless self-examination and loss, delivered via punishing assault, reminds the listener that the dark can be a comforting respite.
Automated Disappointment is available NOW on vinyl LP, CD and digital formats via Re:Mission Entertainment.
On this day, 64 years ago, Jerry Wayne Hussey (26 May 1958) was born in Bristol, England. He is best known as the lead singer of The Mission and ex-guitarist of The Sisters of Mercy.
The first real success for Hussey as a guitarist was with Dead or Alive. After frontman Pete Burns retreated to become a more studio-based artist, Hussey left to join The Sisters of Mercy, concentrating on 12-string and 6-string guitars. Besides playing guitars he also contributed to The Sister Of Mercy arrangements with his higher ranged voice which was brought into place to contrast with Andrew Eldritch's melancholic baritone.
When The Sisters of Mercy disbanded, Hussey and bassist, Craig Adams, set up The Mission, recruiting Mick Brown on drums and Simon Hinkler on guitars.
In 2009, he released his first solo album called Bare and in 2014 his second solo album Songs of Candlelight and Razorblades followed.
Hussey lived in Leeds for a while before moving to London towards the end of the 1980s. Currently he lives in São Paulo, Brazil.
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