– November sixteenth, 2023 –
New Video Now Taking part in + North American Tour Supporting Katatonia Underway
Picture by Tracy Lollar
Slasherwave outfit and up to date Steel Blade Information signees GOST will launch the thundering thirteen-track full-length, Prophecy, on March eighth, 2024, right this moment revealing the report’s first video/single and pre-orders.
GOST exists in the dead of night crack between black steel and essentially the most shadowy finish of digital music. Because the launch of the Radio Macabre EP at the beginning of 2013, and the remorseless digital nightmare of their Cranium debut album six months later, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and main-brain James Lollar has grow to be an more and more singular power in music. Much more aggressive and sinister than the synthwave he’s typically grouped with, GOST is a harsh and distinctive digital nightmare that takes the listener proper into the center of the abyss.
Now GOST returns with their sixth album, Prophecy. Unquestionably their most exhilarating and harmful sounding work up to now, Prophecy is a report that completely displays the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with non secular and political overreach, and progress, “being rolled again to the fucking Nineteen Fifties.”
“It’s about an imaginative fall of the Western civilization, the biblical finish of the world – the rise of Devil and Armageddon,” says Lollar. “In America, there’s been an enormous rise of scared, reactive Christianity once more, and nearly like a re-emergence of the Satanic Panic. So it felt like an acceptable time to deliver Devil again into issues.”
Recorded alone in Texas throughout a burst of creativity on the finish of 2022, Prophecy is the right vessel for such issues. Following the experimentation and extra melodic touches of 2019′s Valediction, Lollar says it additionally acts as one thing of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of GOST.
“When Valediction got here out, COVID hit, and I suppose individuals weren’t so into artwork whereas the world was on its knees,” he says. “I additionally needed to reconnect with a few of my older followers who perhaps didn’t really feel that album a lot. I needed to return in time and produce a few of the older shit again, a few of the older sounds.“
Prematurely of the discharge of Prophecy, GOST has unveiled the primary single, the report’s title observe, and its accompanying video (which incorporates intro observe, “Judgement“).
Elaborates Lollar, “With ‘Prophecy,’ I needed to revisit a few of the sounds of ‘Possessor.’ Somewhat than merely replicate these sounds I expanded upon them. I pushed the saturation and compression to their literal limits, leading to a few of the heaviest sounds I’ve but to supply. I needed to mix some traditional EBM components with my digital steel sound as nicely. This EBM affect could be heard all through ‘Prophecy.’ Horror has been an enormous facet of my sound since day one and that theme is ever current on ‘Prophecy,’ by ratcheting strings and dreadful choir strains. ‘Prophecy’ expounds on the slasherwave style I initially created with ‘Behemoth.‘”
Watch GOST‘s “Judgement / Prophecy” video at THIS LOCATION.
Prophecy shall be accessible on CD, LP, and digital codecs. Discover pre-ordering choices at: metalblade.com/gost
Prophecy Monitor Itemizing:
01. Judgment
02. Prophecy
03. Loss of life in Bloom
04. Deceiver
05. Obituary
06. Temple of Tears
07. Decadent Decay
08. Widow Tune
09. Golgotha
10. Digital Loss of life
11. Shelter
12. By way of the Water
13. Leviathan
GOST is at present traversing North America supporting Katatonia on their Sky Void Of Stars tour. Further help is being supplied by SOM on choose dates. See all remaining dates beneath.
GOST w/ Katatonia, SOM [remaining dates]:
11/16/2023 Thunderbird Music Corridor – Pittsburgh, PA
11/17/2023 The Roxy – Cleveland, OH
11/18/2023 The Forge – Joliet, IL
11/19/2023 Lyric Theater @ Skyway – Minneapolis, MN
11/21/2023 The O – Denver, CO
11/22/2023 Commonwealth – Salt Lake Metropolis, UT
w/ Katatonia:
11/24/2023 Bossa Nova Ballroom – Portland, OR
11/25/2023 Rickshaw – Vancouver, BC
11/26/2023 Neptune Theater – Seattle WA
11/28/2023 Cornerstone – Berkeley, CA
11/29/2023 Strummer’s – Fresno, CA
11/30/2023 Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
12/01/2023 The Glass Home – Pomona, CA
12/02/2023 Crescent Ballroom – Phoenix, AZ
12/04/2023 Granada Theatre – Dallas, TX
12/05/2023 Come And Take It Stay – Austin, TX
12/06/2023 Scout Bar – Houston TX
12/08/2023 Hell @ The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
12/09/2023 Stage 13 – Orlando, FL
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