Mickey's Metal Morsels: Episode Twenty Three

We’ve just put together a quicky for Episode Twenty Three, but I’m sure there’s still a lot to get your teeth into with the three acts we’ve brought together this time around!

THRASHERWOLF

G.B.H. (Gratuitous Bodily Harm) is the brand new single by Thrasherwolf and is the first track from their sophomore album Inside The Sickened Mind which releases on October the 4th!

For fans of the band, this track will be a familiar anthem, as it has been a staple in the bands live set for some time, finally captured and ready to share with the world! The track looks at the inherent need inside us all, inside every human being since the dawn of time to cause violence and harm. Because all though some try to deny this instinctual and primordial feeling, it exists in all of us. We’ve all hated someone so much, or seen something someone has done that put us so on edge that we’ve wanted to cause them pain and misery, this is what GBH truly takes a deeper inherent look at; Instinctual violence.

From the deepest, darkest pits of London’s underground music scene, Thrasherwolf are an old-school thrash metal four piece formed in 2019. Inspired by the classic thrash heavy weights such as Slayer, Metallica and Kreator they are the perfect example of old school technical thrash with a modern and fresh twist. With thousands of members in their ever growing pack they pride themselves on entertaining fans with howling vocals, blistering solos and soul-shattering, thunderous drums.

COILGUNS

I’m extremely pleased to announce that Swiss band Coilguns – I loved their Millennials opus from a few years back – will be releasing their new album Odd Love on 22 November 2024 via Hummus Records. Composed, arranged and produced by the band, Odd Love was recorded by Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Thrice) in the Ocean Sounds studio, Giske (Norway), mixed by Tom Dalgety (The Pixies, Ghost, Royal Blood) and mastered by Robin Schmidt (Liam Gallagher, The Gaslight Anthem).

The band has just unveiled their new video/single Generic Skincare, a post-hardcore anthem and centrepiece of the forthcoming album, which should delight fans of Refused, At The Drive-In, Converge, The Mars Volta, Chat Pile or Touché Amoré. This track is a high-octane journey that merges ferocious drumming with their signature bone-rattling guitar riffs, layered with clean vocals and infectious choruses that mark a bold departure from their previous work. True to their spirit of defying expectations, Coilguns weaves in heavy synths and a raw, unfiltered energy that challenges the norms of punk and noise-rock. Generic Skincare is not just a song, but a statement—a testament to the band’s fearless evolution while staying rooted in the intensity that has always defined them. Accompanied by one of their rare official music video, this release offers a visceral taste of what’s to come, as Coilguns break new ground without losing their uncompromising edge.

Says the band: “This band has become our family and our purpose in life. We hope we will get the chance to grow old only if we’re able to wake up every morning to play music together and share some cool band time like always. We sometimes feel old in a young body, or young in an old body, but none of this seems to matter that much when we have a guitar or a drumstick in our hands. So whatever comes, we’re ready for it, as long as we stick to our tourbus”.

HVILE I KAOS

It is thirteen years since cellist, composer and explorer of secrets Kakophonix began his work of musical revelation under the banner of Hvile I Kaos…and now that journey is complete, the final votive offering rendered unto the lords of misrule. Lower Order Manifestations is a work that transcends the commonly understood barriers of genre, transposing the riffs and rhythms, atmosphere and intent of black metal into a new sonic sphere. With cello and acoustic guitar, bass, frame drums and vocal punctuations, Kakophonix has created a progressive path of rituals that lead from an awakening of passion and spirited revolution to an attainment of knowledge, a state of perfection. Through the celebratory Psalmody For The Child Offering, rife with tension, with its unnerving undercurrents that run jagged nails across the skin of human convictions and assumed proprieties, onward through the ungraspable, unknowable Shadowscast – a darkness of substance that slips through your fingers like serpents of sand, as it blends the beautiful liquid of dreams with the fevered sweat of nightmares. From the torment and terror of Panic Sun that undermines all you believed to be true, bringing about the collapse of certainties and understanding, to the fierce intensity of seething, dissonant aggression that is Smite…the road is long and hard, but it all leads to the breathtaking grace of Verity Thy Path, the brightness of guitars laced with the sombre reflection of the cello, an elevated state only to be found at the conclusion of the trials preceding. The final notes of Hvile I Kaos’ passage through this world could not be more perfect.

“This collection of recorded workings is a series of invocations to eight Lower Order Spirits, as steps leading to the sacrificial altar of Moloch, the King of Fire. This is done in accordance with the practice of Sinister Magick known as Vedantic Nihilism, as outlined in the grimoire Codex Aversum by Caine Del Sol. The forces presented by these workings are those of collapse, madness, death, and decay. They have served and will continue to serve those ends to devastating effect, in real life, in real time. You have been warned.” – Kakophonix