UK’s louder-than-thou heavy warlords CONAN unleash a merciless third track taken from their highly anticipated new studio album “Violence Dimension”, due out on April 25th through Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
“In our 2022 song ‘Levitation Hoax’, we used the idea of being the voice of the unborn son of the unborn son of the unborn. This time we take it one step further, we bring those ghosts to earth, and they don’t realise they were killed by a politician in an expensive suit in an expensive seat in a country not so far away,” says Conan axeman and frontman Jon Davis.
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Two decades into their career, UK heavy scene’s three-headed colossus Conan are back with their heaviest sonic statement to date, “Violence Dimension” — their first recording with new bassist David Ryley (formerly of legendary ’90s sludge band Fudge Tunnel).
From the initial shockwave of “Foeman’s Flesh” to the feedback-laden nightmare of “Vortexxion” through the fierce and merciless sludge of “Frozen Edges of the Wound”, the band feeds from the growing violence and negativity of our society, turning it into an empowering formula for us to fight our way through. Skulls will be crushed, ears will be punished upon this massive, dimension-opening call to arms from the mighty trio. Stream their latest singles Frozen Edges of the Wound and Desolation Hexx!
About the album, the band states: “Violence Dimension is our seventh full-length release. We have come quite a distance in time and space since we released Horseback in 2010. One thing that binds us all is violence, be that within a video game, or in a movie or on the daily news. Violence affects our daily life, perhaps more than love or kindness ever will. We are all bound by death, whether we like it or not. This release explores the hinterland between being scared to live and bring scared to die, and punches holes in the idea that we must live our life by one set of rules. We all live in the violence dimension, and there is no escape.“
New album “Violence Dimension”
Out April 25th on Heavy Psych Sounds
International preorder – US preorder
Conan‘s doom is singular. Carved of granite. Yes, of course there’ve been changes since guitarist/vocalist Jon Davis founded the group in 2006, but the intention at the time toward superlative heavy – tonal extremity wrought with impressionist lyrics stripping ideas to the core where sometimes the whole line is just one word; they’ve always called it “Caveman Battle Doom” – remains at the root of everything they’ve done since. And across five studio records in the decade from 2012-2022, Conan have set the standard by which much of “heavy” anything is judged. And in comparison, most is found wanting.
But for every time you’ve heard about Conan‘s music being like galloping steeds or frost-covered sharp-peaked mountains, etc., imagery of largesse and violence, the truth is Conan are an exercise in frequency. It’s the low resonance that shakes your chest, the depth of the bass – now handled by David Ryley (ex-Fudge Tunnel) – the push of air from Johnny King’s kick drum, or the way the dark-fuzz distortion of Davis’ guitar is offset by shouting vocals cutting through that sometimes punishing onslaught, rarely to offer comfort so much as add viciousness to the crash, plod and pillage.
In 2024, Conan signed to Heavy Psych Sounds as a recognized name and one of the foremost acts of their generation, wildly influential in their home country of the UK and well beyond; headliners in practice and theory alike. Their fifth LP ‘Evidence of Immortality,’ brought a dark ambience to coincide with its outright attack. With experiments in darkwave and synth adding breadth to the stated root purpose of aural force, it’s never been harder to guess where the next few years might take their sound, but whatever’s coming, Conan will make it kill.
CONAN is
Jon Davis – Vocals/Guitars
Johnny King – Drums
David Ryley – Bass
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