UK industrial/doom metal outfit Khost streams new album »Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us« and music video for »Apotropaic«!

Birmingham, UK based industrial/doom metal outfit Khost has just released their fifth album »Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us« on September 20th, 2024 via Cold Spring Records. Available now for streaming on all digital platforms!

Watch new music video for the latest single »Apotropaic« below!

Tracklist:
01. Shard
02. The Fifth Book of Agrippa
03. Death Threat
04. Face
05. Apotropaic
06. Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us
07. Transfixed
08. Incinerator
09. Hands In Broken Time
10. Death Car
11. Reading Between The Lines
12. L2L6
13. Cheapside
14. Define The Edge of Someone
15. Overrun
16. TVSB
17. Death Threat (Bereneces Remix)
18. Yellow Light (Adrian Stainburner Remix)

Courtesy of The Metallist PR:

The 5th album »Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us« from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics.

Inspiration for many of the tracks came from countless live shows and even soundcheck experiments in which extreme, harsh electronics evolved, as did punk/early industrial tempos, all of which were then fused into the DNA of »Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us«.

Khost remarks: “We hoped that the experience would be something like venturing into an off-limits wing of some gallery after-hours, with each turn more disorientating than where you just were.”

Photo by Abby Helasdottir

Collaborators include Axebreaker (aka Terence Hannum of Locrian), acclaimed cellist Jo Quail, and Berlin-based sound designer Manuel Liebeskind.

The CD and the vinyl are different beasts. The CD is reinforced with 7 extra tracks including Adrian Stainburner’s incredible remix of »Yellow Light« featuring Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire, Wrangler) on vocals, and Bereneces adding his signature deep, dark D&B sound to the track »Death Threat«. The LP editions feature a different mix by Khost especially for vinyl.

All tracks written by Khost.
Mastered by Martin Bowes at The Cage, Coventry.
Artwork by Abby Helasdottir, who also took care of the band’s photos.

Order »Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us« on CD / vinyl here: coldspring.co.uk | coldspring.bandcamp.com

Khost UK tour with Deep Cross 9-17 Nov:
9th: The Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh
11th: The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle +
12th: Bloc+ Glasgow
14th: The Kings Arms, Salford +
15th: The Flapper, Birmingham ∆
16th: The Dev, London ✲
17th: The Crofters Rights, Bristol

+ with Pimitive Knot
✲ with Cremation Lily
∆ with Dead Space Chamber Music, Tommy Creep

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