French sludge metallers Love Sex Machine announce new album »Thriving« and stream new single & music video »The Herd«!

Lille, France based sludge/post-metal band Love Sex Machine premiere a brand new single and music video »The Herd«.

»The Herd« is the first single off Love Sex Machine’s upcoming album, »Thriving«, set to release on November 13th, 2026 via Pelagic Records.

Tracklist:
01. Yellow Is Dead
02. Borrow The Will
03. The Herd
04. Dig
05. Holy Filth
06. Awaken
07. Born Erased
08. Polymorphism
09. Ultrasatan
10. Amputation
11. Thriving

Courtesy of Hold Tight PR:

French sludge metal quartet Love Sex Machine will release their mighty new album »Thriving« on November 13th via Pelagic Records. Pre-order HERE.

In celebration, the group have streamed the first single & video from the record, the vicious »The Herd«. Stream HERE.

The band comment: “This song is about being processed in a slaughterhouse run by cows. Probably unbearable. So is the song.”

From their new album »Thriving«, Love Sex Machine present their first single »The Herd«, a ragingly brutal track drenched in ferocity. Anchored by a stomping beat, »The Herd« creates a distorted wall of intensity that builds throughout. As hypnotic phrases and melodies merge with electronica, and vocals tear through the mix violently, this adrenalin filled track becomes a swirling storm of urgency and heaviness.

Formed in Lille, France, Love Sex Machine have spent more than a decade developing one of the most recognisable strains of contemporary sludge. From their earliest recordings the band established an approach built around weight, repetition and confrontation, stripping heavy music down to its most physical components while retaining a distinct sense of brutal humour. Love Sex Machine continue to expand through sludge, post-metal, post-hardcore and blackened extremity as a band with zero interest in restraint or convention.

Uncompromising, darkly humorous and physically overwhelming, Love Sex Machine‘s new album »Thriving« is “…uglier, more direct and more violent than anything we’ve done.“ Though routed in a violent approach to sludge, the band constantly distort that foundation through the angular precision of modern metal, the tension of post-hardcore and the colder, more hostile colours of black metal. The songs arrive and sustain such density and repetition that their massive depth of sound is unapologetically abrasive; rattling listeners to the core and giving direct access to the human shadow in all its vile glory.

Short and brutally immediate compositions give »Thriving« a particularly urgent character, whilst each song stands unique in the onslaught of ear-drums and curdling flesh. The result is music that is filthy yet precise, punishing yet strangely catchy, ugly yet meticulously constructed. Love Sex Machine make heaviness itself the organising principle, and then find increasingly inventive ways to make it stampede over all expectations and sensibilities.

Love Sex Machine are:
Xavier – Drums and Backing Vocals
JB – Guitar and Backing Vocals
Laurent – Bass and Backing Vocals
Yves – Guitar and Lead Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well