Now Gost return with their sixth album, and their most exhilarating and dangerous-sounding work to this point, Prophecy. It’s a report that completely displays the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with non secular and political overreach, and progress “being rolled again to the fucking Fifties“.
“It’s about an imaginative fall of the Western civilization, the biblical finish of the world – the rise of Devil and Armageddon,” says James. “In America, there’s been a giant rise of scared, reactive Christianity once more, and nearly like a re-emergence of the Satanic Panic. So it felt like an applicable time to deliver Devil again into issues.“
Recorded alone in Texas throughout a burst of creativity on the finish of 2022 (“I can’t put a tune down as soon as I begin it, I’m too OCD, I’ve to complete it“), Prophecy is the proper vessel for such issues. Following the experimentation and extra melodic touches of 2019′s Valediction, James says it additionally acts as one thing of a return to older roots, to recapture the spirit of Gost.
“When Valediction got here out, COVID hit, and I assume folks weren’t so into artwork whereas the world was on its knees,” he says. “I additionally wished to reconnect with a few of my older followers who possibly didn’t really feel that album a lot. I wished to return in time and produce a number of the older shit again, a number of the older sounds.“
Certainly, on tracks like the economic scrape of Loss of life In Bloom, the doomy Decadent Decay and Golgotha‘s demonic pulse, it’s clear what he means. All through, he welds collectively parts of pulsing synthwave, the otherworldly nastiness of black metallic, and the pound and snarl of Ministry at their most unhinged to create a complete that sounds genuinely harmful, someplace between metallic and a rave in Hell.
“If folks listened to my music at a rave they might have a nasty fucking journey,” laughs James. “Nevertheless it’s a enjoyable problem to attempt to make metallic with digital noises. I like processing on a pc and digital tools, and making an attempt to make it sound uncooked. It’s a singular problem, as a result of every thing in there’s clear, and also you’re utilizing plug in distortion and issues like that. It’s only a complete completely different realm than utilizing pedals and amps and shit.”
For an artist who drinks so closely from the world of digital and dance music – albeit at its most excessive edges – James says Gost hasn’t been taken in by that world in any respect. As an alternative, he’s constructed a house in metallic, as seen when he was invited to tour with black metallic legends Mayhem.
“On the Mayhem tour, I ended up one evening in a lodge bar speaking to [bassist] Necrobutcher. I used to be thanking them for having me on the tour, and he’s like, ‘That was me, I wished you on this tour.’ That’s fucking weird. Nevertheless it’s cool, man,” says James. “It’s bizarre to be accepted by the metallic group, it’s humbling, it’s honourable. It’s the place I come from.”
No matter you name it, Gost have made one thing intense, cathartic, creatively wealthy and never fairly like the rest on the market. Watch them fulfil their Prophecy…
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