Guiltless, featuring members of Intronaut, Generation of Vipers, A Storm of Light, and Battle of Mice, have just announced their new EP, Thorns. The four track record arrives on Neurot Recordings on the 23rd Feb with the promise of a full-length to follow. To mark this news, they have also shared their first single and video, “All We Destroy.” Check it out in the article below.
The first Guiltless single arrives with a video for “All We Destroy,” created by Josh Graham (guitars/vocals) who writes, “All We Destroy” is the song that set the tone of the band overall and defines a large portion of this first release. It’s a stripped-down arrangement compared to the other tracks but has a clarified pummelling energy/driving force. Lyrically bleak, it feels like the current state and trajectory of our planet, and is influenced by the short story by Margaret Atwood, Time Capsule Found On The Dead Planet.”
Guiltless are; Billy Graves (Generation of Vipers, A Storm Of Light) on drums, Dan Hawkins (A Storm Of Light) on guitar and noise, Sacha Dunable (Intronaut) on bass, and Josh Graham (A Storm Of Light, Battle of Mice) on guitar, vocals, and noise. Together they present a stripped down, visceral reaction to modern life; angular yet straight to the point, self aware, surreal and occasionally sarcastic.
Thorns tracklisting:
01 Devour Collide
02 All We Destroy
03 Dead-Eye
04 In Radiant Glow
More from Guiltless:
Human singularity, a third world war, scorching deserts, rising seas – it’s all coming for us. The slow grind is already in motion, pushing concrete, bodies, Teslas, skyscrapers, shacks, banks and bitcoin into a collective abyss. Piles of discarded trash will inherit the earth. It’s anyone’s guess as to what happens next. Is this the end of the world? Who knows. Who cares? Stand by with the rest of us and watch it burn. We’re all guiltless. We’re all blameless.
Guiltless creates apocalyptic soundscapes in their imaginings of the surreal return to proto-human civilisation, as well as what life might be like for the survivors of the next mass extinction event on Thorns. The opening track, “Devour-Collide” is a song which addresses the decline of civilisation, leaving time and space for the earth to heal. The band shouts;
“Embrace the ruin
devour – collide
when the beasts dissolve
the meek revive”
Elsewhere on the EP, there’s the bleak gut-reactional “All We Destroy” and the barren landscape conjured in “Dead-Eye”. The EP ends with “In Radiant Glow”, a description of the unfolding of a hostile new world, post-extinction event. The conclusion of this narrative comes with the purgation of burning everything down to the ground and starting again.
Through this cycle of destruction and rebirth, Guiltless believe that art and music can give us solace, or help us exercise our demons. Guiltless can be that cathartic release.
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