The new LP from industrial synth punk legend Schkeuditzer Kreuz "No Life Left" is in store now and ready to ship.
A cold, bleak, industrial, punk meditation on a cruel world and lives fighting that world only to be inevitably crushed by the gears of the death machine.
The whole album rumbles with the beat of the death machine that craves blood to lubricate its mechanics and the melody of tanks crushing skulls.
Throw in an Anti Cimex cover and you have the ultimate dystopian punk party at the end of times.
It's a grim listen. Believe me. But it hits a lot of familiar notes for anyone who's hated their boss, a heartless government and a corporate landscape that uses people and the environment like resources to grind up.
There's some sort of subconscious communion of punks and outsiders that can be felt on this record, as on all of the best punk.
Here's what CVLTNATION says about this release:
I’m Canadian, but I spent six years living in Los Angeles, and in the last year I lived there, there was a mass shooting in my neighborhood. Just a couple blocks from my home, a young man murdered his family, and shot up my surrounding streets, ending up on a college campus where he murdered four people, including a father and daughter. They were the streets we walked with our toddler, where we’d raised our teenage daughter, where we played and shopped and felt safe. Now they were surrounded by sirens, a horde of helicopters overhead, and bullet holes in windshields. Listening to people who didn’t live where I lived and didn’t feel what I felt argue about whether more or less guns would have made a difference was maddening. It felt so disrespectful to the lives lost and the sense of stripped-away safety for people to immediately make it political — but that’s what America does to keep the status quo in place.
So listening to the chaotic sounds of industrial synth crust // d-beat raw synth punk multi-machinist SCHKEUDITZER KREUZ perfectly captures the disgust and fear I felt watching the country descend into yet another Libs vs Cons debate.
“Second Life” is his latest single off his upcoming record No Life Left that’s out via Bad Habit Records and Sorry State Records on August 25th, 2023
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Tonight in Noosa @angstrom_space is throwing an event. It got @electricprawns_2 on the line-up who are sort of devo/coneheady and have Members of Canetoad, from Rockhampton. We`ll have afew boxes of records for sale at the show.
Get along and get amongst it.
T-shirts out this Saturday. Online on Sunday.
This Saturday at the Black Box is No No Fest. If you`ve been to any of the recent gigs in Namba you`ve probably meet Kerley, the mastermind behind No No Records. He`s super active, with a real butt ton of shows and releases coming up. No No Fest is a showcase of the stuff he`s been working on. Its a bunch of bands but @trashvideoarchives is showng some movies aswell. We pinned him down to ask some questions. Hit the Bad Habit blog to read and get tickets.
5 Lps with Minimal text on the front cover. And a tape.
New @blindgirlss lp is here. Gold Coast screamo. It`s been a joy watching this band go from strength to strength and conquer the world. I don`t really need to spruik this record. You already know if you need it because you`ve seen them destroy stages and floor shows.
New @diploidnoise tape plus their 4 lps. Awkward and intense grindcore made by outsiders. Really, one of the best Australian bands.
These are online and instore now.
Record of the week alert
Hog - True Romance 7" on Shipping Steel Records.
"Hardcore Kids" playing "Dirty Rock n Roll" can go two ways. It sucks because the people playing it aren`t raw dog idiots who`ve set off the fire hose and been kicked out of numerous shows for beer theft and general punisher antics. They navigate social hierarchies with an eye of climbing some ladder made of dicks.
Or it rules because the people playing it are fucking idiots who continually sabotage their life by ruining everything around them. And they play music with the swagger and loose agressionn of someone who has failure in their DNA.
This record feels like the later. It has that punk aggression that`s about to fall apart cause they are playing like real maniacs of rock.
Like the best bands to play this style, Annihilation Time / Lecherous Gaze even Moterhead or maybe closer to Tank or Power etc.
They are from New Zealand. That mysterious land to the south of Australia, or maybe its east? Nobody knows.
Get it instore or on the webstore.
Gaoled coming to lay waste to the Queens Land.
