Photograph by Justin Butcher
Oklahoma industrial steel outfit Black Magnet didn’t originate within the Rust Belt, however their sound harkens again to the style’s Chicago roots. On new single, “Night time Tripping,” you get the proper digital/metallic mash-up, full with mechanical percussion, distorted vocals and robotic tribal rhythms, a la Ministry or one other iconic Rust Belt act, 9 Inch Nails. The quartet—James Hammontree (vocals/guitar), Ryne Bratcher (guitar), Jared Branson (bass), Noah Taylor (drums)—jackhammer by the two-minute-plus observe, taken from their upcoming Megamantra full-length, with chilly precision.
Megamantra was recorded and blended at Earth Analogue Studio by Sanford Parker. It was mastered by Vlado Meller. It’s set for launch on vinyl and digitally on July 25 through Federal Prisoner Data (co-founded by Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato). Place your preorder right here or right here. And don’t overlook to take a look at Black Magnet’s string of September reside dates listed beneath the visualizer.
Guitarist/vocalist James Hammontree had this to say in regards to the new observe:
“‘Night time Tripping’ is a psychic transmission, a wrestle with the unraveling of time. It’s a psychological burial by poisoned reminiscence and future expectation. In sure states of thoughts, I view actuality by trauma—what I name my ‘shadow life.’ Goals turn out to be synthetic constructs; the self overtaken by parasitic thought. There’s desperation in reaching outward when the interior world is fracturing.”
Black Magnet reside:
9/02/2025 Rubber Gloves – Denton, TX w/ Wargasm
9/18/2025 Hello-Tone – Memphis, TN w/ fallfiftyfeet
9/19/2025 Firehouse – Birmingham, AL
9/20/2025 Heavy Hell Competition @ Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN w/ Six Toes Below, Grasp, Thou
9/21/2025 Farewell – Kansas Metropolis, MO
