{"id":17443,"date":"2025-12-11T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17443"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:14:30","slug":"david-galas-lycia-apocalyptic-vision-manifests-on-the-nihilist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17443","title":{"rendered":"DAVID GALAS\u2019 (LYCIA) apocalyptic vision manifests on \u201cThe Nihilist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Galas-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17444\" style=\"width:472px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Galas-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Galas-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Galas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Galas-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Galas.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p id=\"x_docs-internal-guid-878ba4aa-7fff-6297-a048-433d959bd7a1\"><em>Full album stream premieres exclusively via The Devil\u2019s Mouth<br><br>\u201cThe Nihilist\u201d available&nbsp;via These Hands Melt (CD\/Digital) from 12 December<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"x_docs-internal-guid-878ba4aa-7fff-6297-a048-433d959bd7a1\"><br><strong>David Galas<\/strong>, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and long-time member of the legendary darkwave band&nbsp;<strong>LYCIA<\/strong>, has&nbsp;teamed up with veteran music journalist&nbsp;<strong>Jos\u00e9 Carlos Santos<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>The Devil\u2019s Mouth<\/strong>&nbsp;for the exclusive full-album stream of the upcoming solo album, \u201c<strong><em>The Nihilist<\/em><\/strong>\u201d, ahead of its release on 12 December via&nbsp;<strong>These Hands Melt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Nihilist\u201d finds Galas returning to a raw celebration of his post-punk roots. The record can be described as his most immediate yet fatalistic songbook to date, with lyrics drenched in apocalyptic pessimism and sounds that take over the legacy of bands like The Mission, Mephisto Waltz and Joy Division. The album delivers a haunting yet driving sound, ensuring that the fading hopes of our world have never sounded this good on a goth dancefloor.<br><br>All songs on \u201cThe Nihilist\u201d were written, performed, recorded and produced by David Galas. Visuals were handled by No Faith \/ Federico Salvador, design by Lucia Macip &amp; These Hands Melt, while cover photography was completed by Michalina Wozniak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The album will be available on CD (limited to 300 copies) and Digital formats.\u00a0Grab your copy via These Hands Melt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"David Galas - The Nihilist [Full Album streaming]\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OQo5YJfaq0?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: DAVID GALAS\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/6TorAsB8cWdpvUr4MkUzYr?si=t_G2i5lPT4OlC_vKk9KYVw&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=3462e462e1814bdf&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full album stream premieres exclusively via The Devil\u2019s Mouth \u201cThe Nihilist\u201d available&nbsp;via These Hands Melt (CD\/Digital) from 12 December David Galas, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and long-time member of the legendary darkwave band&nbsp;LYCIA, has&nbsp;teamed up with veteran music journalist&nbsp;Jos\u00e9 Carlos Santos&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Devil\u2019s Mouth&nbsp;for the exclusive full-album stream of the upcoming solo album, \u201cThe Nihilist\u201d, ahead of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17443\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAVID GALAS\u2019 (LYCIA) apocalyptic vision manifests on \u201cThe Nihilist\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17446,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17443\/revisions\/17446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}