Release Roundup: June 30th
Featuring Love Is Noise, Bilmuri, King Yosef, and more.
ERRONEOUS BOTCH:
Two more videos for everyone this week! Returning champions, Ads and Pip, drop in to chat about levelling things up for their 2025 instalment of A COLD DAY IN BNE fest. ‘Tis the season once again, and the third time is indeed the charm, folks! Can you survive… three years in a row? ⚔️❄️💀
We discuss the lessons learned from previous fests, the importance of keeping a consistent crew, the ebbs and flows necessary for perfect set orders, overcoming on-the-fly changes, Hail Mary email saves, and pulling together another banger lineup of primo heavy talent. Check it out below:
And for my ongoing Dispatch Bay series, the ever-affable Jeremy Bolm of post-hardcore staples TOUCHE AMORE returns to the show. On this episode, we’re talking exclusively Real S***™ and pulling zero punches. Jeremy goes in on playing 2 am festival sets in Germany, mid-life crisis mosh bands, why algorithms are cheapening the album listening experience, the ecstatic joy of audiobook conversion, why Heat 2 rips, and why the original Final Destination film is boring, actually. Jeremy rules, and this one was lots of fun. Check it out below:
SIDE A:
A curated selection of cool shit for you to listen to.
Bilmuri – “More Than Hate”
The Hogcranker-in-Chief is back, baby! Fresh off a (mostly) sold-out Australian tour (that we sadly had to miss), BILMURI, Johnny Franck’s (ex-Attack Attack) latest effort, has dropped a new banger. “More Than Hate” is a heavy rager featuring Bilmuri as the elusive “Hogman,” a rogue antihero being hunted in the woods by a squad of special guest stars. If you’ve ever accidentally stumbled upon reruns of Finding Bigfoot, then you’ll clock this vibe immediately.
While there’s no word on a new Bilmuri record at this stage, as he’s no doubt busy with hectic touring schedules, if it’s anything close to 2024’s American Motor Sports, then hogs will indeed be cranked in anticipation. Watch the video for “More Than Hate” below:
Homesick – This Is A War
If you’re into raw, melodic hardcore of the mid-00s Deathwish variety (IYKYK), with an impassioned anti-colonial perspective, then boy, do I have something for you. First Nations outfit HOMESICK are back with their first proper release in several years following their acclaimed sophomore album, 2018’s Terra Nullius.
Breaking their hiatus with last year’s standalone single “Legacy of Nothing,” the group’s latest project is a three-track EP titled This Is A War, out now through Bad Apples Music, the label initiative of rapper Briggs (A.B. Original). Stream the three-track EP in full here (Spotify).
King Yosef – “Molting Fear”
F.O.T.S. and Oregon bruiser KING YOSEF is back with the first taste from his forthcoming full-length album, Spire of Fear, which arrives on August 15th via Bleakhouse. This record is the long-awaited follow-up to 2023’s breakout LP, An Underlying Hum, which fused industrial and hardcore with hefty metallic riffs and skittering electronic textures. The self-produced album was recorded and mixed at the legendary GodCity Studio with longtime collaborators Kurt Ballou and Zach Weeks.
To my ear, Yosef specialises in making music that matches the embodied intensity of being gleefully tossed through a farm thresher, dropkicking a 56K dial-up modem into a blackhole, or that fiery Steel Mill showdown in Terminator 2. (You know the one.) Watch the video for “Molting Fear” below:
RUN – Ash + Soil
Speaking of F.O.T.S., Lochlan Watt’s blackened post-metalcore project RUN is back with new material, with a two-track single release, Ash + Soil, out now digitally with a limited vinyl release through Thirty Two Records available for pre-order. According to Watt:
“‘Ash’ is a 1:30 blistering rager, while ‘Soil’ is a doomy, atmospheric epic that comes in at almost 5 minutes. Two opposite ends of the RUN spectrum, with a next level drum performance provided by Paul Seidel (The Ocean, Nightmarer, War From A Harlots Mouth).”
Both tracks embody that RUN sound through and through, running the gamut from August Burns Red and Misery Signals to Svalbard and Deafheaven. Stream the two-track release in full here (Bandcamp/Spotify).
Love Is Noise – “Hole In Me”
UK outfit LOVE IS NOISE is the project of Cam Humphrey (formerly of Lotus Eater), and they’ve been making, ahem, noise ever since the release of their debut album, To Live In A Different Way, back in February via Century Media Records. Never ones to rest, the quartet have already dropped two new singles: “Hole In Me” and “All Eyes Shut,” which features a guest appearance from Loathe guitarist/vocalist Erik Bickerstaffe.
I found the former to be the most captivating, with a stratospheric chorus hook reminiscent of Static Dress at their most anthemic, before it descended into a frenzy of utterly surprising blastbeat chaos on the back end. Watch the video for “Hole In Me” below and see what I mean:
SIDE B & FEATURE ALBUM:
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