[27th July, updated with video – Mosh]
“O God” is the 13th single from Manchester doom punks The Battery Farm. The single marks a bold expansion of the band’s signature Gutter Punk sound, adding elements of UK garage and metal to an already potent mix to create something dark, heavy, taut and unhinged.
“O God” explores the idea of being alone in a universe of chaos, with no guiding hand to stop you plummeting into a hell of someone else’s making. We always ask why, and we always search for meaning. “O God” reflects starkly on the idea that there is no why and there is no meaning. Just one action leading to the next, merciless and unfeeling. Is that a thought infinitely more terrifying than the guidance of His healing hand? Or is it just life?
“O God” is paired with the B-side Find and will be released 26th July on Rare Vitamin Records on streaming, CD and 7 inch single. It is the first single from The Battery Farm’s second album Dark Web, which is out 29th November on all platforms.
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The album is essentially an inner monologue set against the backdrop of the epoch of existential terror we live in. It is a personal navigation of that epoch. The album weighs a single life against the spectre of the third world war, the endless doomfeed of the 24 hour news cycle, the livestreaming of genocidal acts, our merciless capacity for dehumanisation, the continuing rise of the fascist far right, the knowledge that other people’s pain is all around us, and the fact that now, more than ever, our collective future is less unwritten than unknowable abyss. It asks how we can survive all that, knowing full well that we do. It is The Battery Farm’s descent down the rabbit hole, into the pitch black.
This is reflected in the sound of the album, which takes the band’s signature gutter punk sound and moves it to a darker, more experimental place, taking in elements of industrial, goth, post punk, UK garage, math rock and nu metal to create something singular. Where their debut album FLIES was a howl of gnarly gutter punk rage, Dark Web is more introspective, ruminative, and in many ways quieter, but no less powerful or ferocious.
Dark Web is stark, unflinching, contemplative and, above all, human, with all the contradictions, vulnerabilities and complexities that entails. It marks an ambitious leap forward for a band that never sits still. Where FLIES was a howl of rage, Dark Web is a howl of unspeakable terror.
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