Protomartyr

Misfits PROTOMARTYR Announce New LP And Share Wry Single ‘PROCESSED BY THE BOYS’…

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New sonic impulses…

12 March 2020


(photo Turn Up The Volume!)

Detroit’s post-punk misfits PROTOMARTYR announced new album ‘ULTIMATE SUCCESS TODAY’, out in May. Frontman and full-time cynical  world observer Joe Casey says about their fifth record “a possible valediction of some confusingly loud five-act play.”

Here’s lead single ‘PROCESSED BY THE BOYS’. A brutal jackhammer, a slow-mo ebullition with a wall-of-pounding hubbub backing Casey’s drunken voice tackling humanity in his own razor-sharp way. The video (below) was influence by Brazilian TV footage the band seems to become obsessed with…

PROTOMARTYR: Facebook


New album ‘ULTIMATE SUCCESS TODAY’ out 29th May – all info here

PROTOMARTYR – Detroit’s Acrimonious Noise Quartet Repeating Themselves In Belgium…

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PROTOMARTYR – De Kreun, Kortrijk, Belgium – 3 May 2018

Last Thursday the Detroit noise-drone-rockers PROTOMARTYR landed in Belgium for the second time in 6 months as part of their endless tour to promote their fourth, barbed
wire album titled ‘Relatives in Descent’. A roaring and intriguing record for those who never heard of the band. A familiar experience – sonically and lyrically – for dedicated followers like me. Live things get also predictable with frontman/songwriter Joe Casey in the middle of the grey picture. Bringing his best friends, 4 bottles of beer, along in the pockets of his old-fashioned bookkeeper’s costume is beginning to look as a gimmick. On the other hand Casey‘s barking, sneering, moaning vox expressing his discontent with this troubled planet and life in general still pierces your ear-system in a stirring way. But in the end, even with
a couple of new songs (sounding like the old ones actually) the band played, the overall impression was one of ‘I heard/saw this all before too much‘. Time for a beer…


Barking, sneering, spitting, moaning…


Another thirsty performance…

Newest album ‘Relatives In Descent’…

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PROTOMARTYR: Facebook Website

(pics: by flashing JL/Turn Up The Volume!)