Norwegian avantgarde rock/metal band Virus who release their new album ‘Memento Collider’ next month have shared a new video made by Costin Chioreanu, who has worked with the likes of Paradise Lost, At the Gates, Mayhem, Spiritual Beggars, Roadburn Festival and many more. You can watch the video for ‘Rogue Fossil’ here:
With the cold wave revival well under way and a swathe of artists from mainland Europe at the forefront, there’s no shortage of dark music for dark times in circulation. Released 20th May on Kwaidan Records, Wendy Bevan’s ‘Sweet Dedication’ is as chilly as the Arctic Circle in winter, but also has a dreamy quality and a keen pop edge. It’s also got a subsonic bassline and a drum track that’s pretty much lifted fro Cabaret Voltaire’s ‘Nag Nag Nag’ while also hinting at early March Violets. And that’s precisely why we dig it. Hear it here:
Washington riff rockers Mos Generatorwill release their new full-length Abyssinia on July 15th 2016 in Europe and August 5th 2016 in North America. In advance of its release, the band have revealed the first single from Abyssinia in the form of ‘Wicked Willow’. Get your lugs round it here:
At Aural Aggravation, we still remember when the grinning face of someone like Bruno Brookes would beam from the television screen and say, “It’s Friday night, it’s still number one, it’s Top of the Pops!” The demise of TOTP and the collapse into irrelevance of music charts, especially the UK Top 40 singles chart was more or less concurrent with the final and absolute corporatisation of the charts, and while we miss the good old days, it was always a fact that the most exciting music never got near the charts in the first place, even then.
And so, it’s 2016. It’s Friday night, you’re reading Aural Aggravation and here’s some Greek hardcore courtesy of Sarabante, whose second LP, Poisonous Legacy, will be releaed by Southern Lord on June 10th. As a taster, you can stream ‘Mass Grave’ here. Fuck yeah.
Illegal is the new single from Sudakistan, first new music since the acclaimed debut LP Caballo Negro. It’s out now via PNKSLM Recordings. It’s a corking racket. You can hear it here. What more do you need?
Suns of Thyme blends space rock, shoegaze, and psychedelia reminiscent of Velvet Underground on sophomore album Cascades, to be released on May 27th via Napalm Records. Ahead of the release, they’ve put out video for ‘Intuition Unbound’.
Synopsis director Easton West comments:
“The storyline is about a wise forest stewart who leads his apprentice through the land teaching her ancient ways until one morning he finds a supernatural blue seed in the wetlands. The discovery initiates a mystical ritual that transfers his ancient knowledge to his apprentice, inaugurating her as the new keeper of the land.”
The video stars Swiss actor David Bennent (The Tin Drum, A Dangerous Fortune) and actress Sarah Johnson, and was directed by Easton West of Klein and West, a Berlin based production company and ensemble of film creatives whose work crosses over between narrative, documentary and commercial realms.
Watch the video here:
As a further taster for the forthcoming album The Glowing Man, with its Ballardian connotations, Swans have offered up an excerpt of ‘When Will I Return’.
‘When Will I Return?’ was written, explains Michael Gira, "… specifically for Jennifer Gira to sing. It’s a tribute to her strength, courage, and resilience."
It sounds like vintage Swans, and calls to mind the sound of The Great Annihilator, Love of Life and White Light. Hear it here:
The Glowing Man is out on 17th June.
Dälek, pioneers of abrasive and distorted hip hop, have teamed up with Swedish music hardware makers Elektron for the Dälek Soundscapes Sound pack. The samples are results and outtakes of the late night studio sessions giving birth to their geniously intense seventh album Asphalt for Eden.
Broken, melodic, beautiful: this is a brutally honest testament of both the creative process and aural aesthetics of the grinding machine known to man as Dälek.
Get your lugs round it here:
‘Shake Shake’ from Irish girl-rock act REWS may be bit more accessible than a lot of the stuff you’ll usually find here at Aural Aggravation, but we’re all about music that excites us, and we know a cracking song when we hear one. ‘Shake Shake’ is a cracking song.
Consisting of songstress Shauna Tohill and beat-maker Collette Williams together they’ve been creating a genuine buzz with their brand of punky alt-rock including plays from Kerrang Radio, Planet Rock, Team Rock Radio, Steve Lamacq, Amazing Radio and Dan O’Connell on Radio X.
They also play at The Great Escape this year.
Watch the video here:
Download the track here:
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