Love Sex Machine rise again with much anticipated third full-length album »Trve«; music video for »Fucking Snakes« streaming now!
Lille, France based sludge metal band Love Sex Machine has unveiled a music video for the first single »Fucking Snakes« taken from their upcoming third full-length album, »Trve«, set to release on April 12th, 2024 via Pelagic Records.
This video is age-restricted and only available on YouTube!
Tracklist:
01. Fucking Snakes
02. Test26
03. Trapped For Life
04. Body Probe
05. Canopy
06. Broken Code
07. Carbonic Beast
08. Autism Factor
09. Hollywood Story
10. Mask
Courtesy of Pelagic Records:
Lille-based noise-rock stalwarts Love Sex Machine have announced the release of »Trve«, their third full-length album and first new music in eight years, on the 12th of April, 2024 via Berlin’s Pelagic Records, who also re-released »Asexual Anger« the band’s 2016, cult classic sophomore album last year.
If patience is a virtue, Love Sex Machine might as well be saints; albeit saints with a taste for the filthiest sludge metal riffs offset by down-tempo, post-metal grooves and a fiendish sense of lyrical humour. »Trve« is 10 long-awaited tracks of revitalised righteous indignation, wry social commentary and, of course, unspeakably disgusting heaviness.
All this, however, is not to say that Love Sex Machine don’t take their craft seriously. From the outset, the album is testament to the band’s decade of experience as idiosyncratic veterans of the European sludge scene. The intervening years have seen the French four-piece trim the fat from their bones to leave only a beating heart of menacing, hypnotic riffs that steadily tunnel their way into your brain.
We’re given mere seconds to catch our breath before album opener and lead single »Fucking Snakes« grabs us by the throat, with each successive riff squeezing ever tighter as towering frontman Yves’ death rattle howl reverberates round our skull. It’s a paralysing yet exhilarating experience, but that’s exactly where Love Sex Machine want to keep you.
Whilst the band have never sounded more abrasive, there is also an intriguing, refined and undeniably pop edge to »Trve« that adds a new element to this musical confrontation in which Love Sex Machine thrive. Atmospheric intros, extraneous refrains and eerie, instrumental outros might all be classic hallmarks of heavy music but you’ll find none of that here. Much like »Fucking Snakes«, most tracks on »Trve« clock in at around three minutes and feature a rush of high-octane, black metal riffs played in an unsettlingly optimistic major key, synth motifs that verge on the triumphant and, in a first for Love Sex Machine, vocal harmonies that lift the listener for a brief, beautiful moment before the next wave of groove-laden, nihilistic sludge forces you right back down to your knees.
Collaboratively recorded by the band themselves, engineer/studio owner Frédéric Pecqueur and producer Sanford Parker (EyeHateGod, Yob, Harm’s Way), »Trve« is a record defined by embracing fatherhood as the world teeters on the brink of collapse. Whilst the riffs and refrains are steadfast, resolute and relentless, the lyrics for the album were written collectively by the band; constantly tweaked, forgotten and rewritten in order to capture the cumulative chaos of the intervening years.
An unashamedly monstrous offering, »Trve« is Love Sex Machine springing a trap eight ugly years in the making, but one that’ll at least keep us strung up between a rock and a hard place so we can appreciate the view of the oncoming apocalypse.
»Trve« is released on the 12th of April.
»Fucking Snakes« is out now.
Love Sex Machine’s Yves on »Fucking Snakes«: “This song is about reptilians emerging at night from the centre of (flat) earth to eat our brains. Do your own research!”
Pre-order / stream / download here: orcd.co/lovesexmachine-trve
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well