Post-punk supergroup SEVENDIALS have unveiled a single and video as a trailer for their forthcoming debut album.
Comprising the stellar line-up of Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks), Big Paul Ferguson (Killing Joke, Murder Inc) and Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission, Peter Murphy), the band deliver the suitably gargantuan 'Zodiac Morals' from A Crash Course In Catastrophe, which is due out in April on Creationyouth - the new imprint from Joke bassist Youth and Creation Records founder Alan McGee - via Cadiz Music.
Speaking of the track, the band query, “Using the stars to guide you because the terrain is always too dark: are the stars twinkling with hope? Or are they spent and dead infernos? The word ZODIAC began to have negative implications when the ZODIAC KILLER became part of the collective zeitgeist, anti-morals, zodiac morals."
Comprising ten new recordings which navigate the labyrinthine byways of dark electronica, pounding rock and shimmering bad acid psychedelia, A Crash Course In Catastrophe kicks off unexpectedly with a cover of 'The Number One Song In Heaven', a 1979 Top 20 disco hit for Sparks.
“We are ALL fans of the MAEL BROTHERS," declare the band unashamedly. "And with SPARKS recently being awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the Association of Independent Music Awards, we decided to take the song that bled out and showered the dancefloor back then, updating it with muscular guitars and thunderous drums. It’s now a 2025 declaration of (disco) intent, yeah: we can dance as well as rock, we do it fast to beat the clock.”
Recorded at Mob Research Laboratories, Los Angeles and Drumnsteelworks, Baltimore, the album is dedicated to the memory of Geordie Walker and DJ and Killing Joke associate Mont Sherar.
Set for release on 4 April, A Crash Course In Catastrophe is available to pre-order here.