Geld have established themselves as the forerunners of a new breed of deranged, progressive punk and hardcore across Melbourne’s teeming scene.

While oft compared to the athletic determination of Equalizing Distort-era Gauze, or the motorik-flying-off-the-rails, oddball sensibility of Hawkwind, Geld’s approach to hardcore on their forthcoming album, ‘Currency // Castration’ bears closer spiritual resemblance to the throbbing, crushingly direct orientation of industrial dance music. Each song is executed at the edge of the band’s compositional ability, surgically worked and reworked with the sole purpose of maximizing the percussive tension between momentum and inertia, creating a wall of sound which offers catharsis only through the direct build up and release of a maddening energy. Their new single and album centerpiece, ‘The Fix Is In’ lyrically and sonically embraces the transcendence of pushing further into one’s misanthropy and alienation. It regards, without romanticism, the anarchic depravity of living within a failed psyche, a failed society, a failed world disintegrating into a Gestalt psychic scream. It is the sound of mad laughter that accompanies the refusal to embrace delusion—simply acknowledging that your life is spiraling towards the abyss is never enough to prevent it from happening all the same. It’s available today with an accompanying music video by New Zealand documentarian Lance Downing (AKA Short Sharp Shock) and is a suitably deranged maelstrom of psychedelic terror.

Photo by ​​Anita Shao
Geld L-R: Tom Rowley (Drums) Pete Mclea (bass) Al Smith (vocals) Cormac Ó Síocháin (guitar)

With ‘Currency // Castration’, Geld offer no promise of a higher purpose or resolve. Rather, they lean into dissociation, finding truth and meaning in the transcendental joy of simply escaping, surviving, existing. Their sound will find a welcome home with those who have found their purpose in the dejection of outsider music and outcast art. Album artwork painted by Geld’s Tom Rowley.

‘Currency // Castration’ Tracklisting:

01 – Currency
02 – Chained To A Gate
03 – Cut You Down
04 – Clock Keeps Crawling
05 – Fog of War
06 – The Fix Is In
07 – Across A Broad Plain
08 – Hanging From A Rope
09 – Gas Of Corruption
10 – Success
11 – Secret Prison
12 – Castration

‘The Fix Is In’ Lyrics:

I don’t know between wrong and right
I can’t tell between black and white
All I know – the fix is in
The deck is stacked – because this fix is in
People know when things are strange
Constant acts I do are deranged
The fix is
I can’t tell when I’m tempting fate
I don’t know why I’m a fake

Geld Live Dates:

Apr 28: Melbourne, VIC – Howler
Jun 03: Sydney, NSW – Metro Theatre
Jun 09: Northcote, VIC – Northcote Social Club (Record Release Show)
Jul 15: Brisbane, QLD – The Triffid
Jul 21: Melbourne, VIC – Bendigo Hotel
Jul 22: Frankston, VIC – Singing Bird (ALL AGES)