Picture by Justin Butcher
Oklahoma industrial metallic outfit Black Magnet didn’t originate within the Rust Belt, however their sound harkens again to the style’s Chicago roots. On new single, “Night time Tripping,” you get the proper digital/metallic mash-up, full with mechanical percussion, distorted vocals and robotic tribal rhythms, a la Ministry or one other iconic Rust Belt act, 9 Inch Nails. The quartet—James Hammontree (vocals/guitar), Ryne Bratcher (guitar), Jared Branson (bass), Noah Taylor (drums)—jackhammer by means of the two-minute-plus observe, taken from their upcoming Megamantra full-length, with chilly precision.
Megamantra was recorded and blended at Earth Analogue Studio by Sanford Parker. It was mastered by Vlado Meller. It’s set for launch on vinyl and digitally on July 25 by way of Federal Prisoner Data (co-founded by Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato). Place your preorder right here or right here. And don’t overlook to take a look at Black Magnet’s string of September stay dates listed beneath the visualizer.
Guitarist/vocalist James Hammontree had this to say concerning the new observe:
“‘Night time Tripping’ is a psychic transmission, a wrestle with the unraveling of time. It’s a psychological burial by poisoned reminiscence and future expectation. In sure states of thoughts, I view actuality by means of trauma—what I name my ‘shadow life.’ Desires turn out to be synthetic constructs; the self overtaken by parasitic thought. There’s desperation in reaching outward when the internal world is fracturing.”
Black Magnet stay:
9/02/2025 Rubber Gloves – Denton, TX w/ Wargasm
9/18/2025 Hello-Tone – Memphis, TN w/ fallfiftyfeet
9/19/2025 Firehouse – Birmingham, AL
9/20/2025 Heavy Hell Competition @ Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN w/ Six Ft Below, Grasp, Thou
9/21/2025 Farewell – Kansas Metropolis, MO
