NEW \u2018ANCIENT SECRETS\u2019 EP PRIMED FOR RELEASE + UK DATES WITH CANCER BATS<\/p>\n
LONDON-BASED rockers, Turbogeist, will release their \u2018Ancient Secrets\u2019 EP on January 14th 2012 via Spinefarm Records. <\/p>\n
Co-produced by the band & Chris Sheldon (who has previously worked with Pixies, Radiohead & Foo Fighters, amongst others), \u2018Ancient Secrets\u2019 was recorded at Livingston Studios in North London, and will be available as a digital download plus a numbered, coloured vinyl 10\u201d.<\/p>\n
Inspired in part by Apocalyptic times, \u2018Ancient Secrets\u2019 includes five ripping tracks, with man\u2019s stuttering evolution at the core of the action; the featured songs include \u2018Mermaid\u2019s Revenge\u2019 (about our ill-fated attempts to conquer nature), for which a video has just been filmed, and \u2018Zero Friends\u2019 (society’s slow death by social networking). <\/p>\n
Says guitarist \/ vocalist, Jimmy\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cAncient Secrets pertains to our obsession with all things fantastical and cryptic. It’s an abstract title, but these are abstract times. We didn’t wanna make an oi oi punk angst record, although that\u2019s how we started out. We wanted to make something more tongue-in-cheek, more weird. We were always turned on by a splatter gun of influences. We didn\u2019t want to make a punk or hardcore or glam or thrash record; we didn’t wanna make anything that felt sonically linear. If the EP were a drug it would probably be acid, as it could go in a few directions. It could be scary, but it could also make you laugh or cry, or make you realise that nothing is real and we are all just a collection of atoms moving very fast to no discernible end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inspired by \u201970\u2019s era punk-rock and \u201980s hardcore, and taking cues from The Replacements, The Damned and The Misfits, Turbogeist \u2013 Jimmy, Luis, James & Josh \u2013 are out to carve their own path, melding their influences (including a deep love of comic books) into an amalgam of twisted sci-fi laden punk rock exploding with raw aggression & attitude. <\/p>\n
Guitarist \/ vocalist Luis adds…<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a youth in the 90’s with Brit pop, Grunge, Hip hop and great rock bands emerging on the radio and music television we were spoiled for choice. Nowadays everything seems too polished. However if you look beyond the void of Mercury Awards and Coldplay b-sides there are great underground scenes\/ bands emerging.\u201d <\/p>\n
Turbogeist will be guesting with Cancer Bats on three of their UK dates in December:-
\n08th \u2013 Fibbers, York
\n13th \u2013 Sugarmill, Stoke
\n18th \u2013 O2 Academy, Liverpool<\/p>\n