New Album “Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us” Out on September 20th!
UK’s industrial/doom metal outfit KHOST has revealed that its new opus “Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us” will be released on September 20th via ColdSpring Records. Tcomposed by 18 tracks in its digipak version and 11 tracks in vinyl version, “Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us” sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics.
Watch the visualizer video of the song “Death Threat” on the label’s YouTube channel!
Stream and pre-order the album on Bandcamp:
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”.
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.
Enclosed you can see the artwork by Abby Helasdottir, who also took care of the band’s photos. All tracks written by Khost. Mastered by Martin Bowes at The Cage, Coventry. The definitive tracklists can be read as follows:
Digipak/Digital Tracklist:
1. Shard
2. The Fifth Book of Agrippa
3. Death Threat
4. Face
5. Apotropaic
6. Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us
7. Transfixed
8. Incinerator
9. 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
Vinyl tracklist:
A1. Death Threat
A2. The Fifth Book of Agrippa
A3. Face
A4. Overrun
A5. Reading Between The Lines
B1. Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us
B2. Hands In Broken Time
B3. Incinerator
B4. Apotropaic
B5. Transfixed
B6. L2L6