Announce new album ‘Currency // Castration’, Out June 9. Release lead single / video ‘Fog Of War’ watch here…

On ‘Currency // Castration’, Australia’s Geld render the dissociation and alienation of modern living with exacting precision. The album unfurls like a series of infinite reflections breaking down into fractal chaos—it becomes increasingly unclear whether one’s suffering comes from the outside world, or from the confines of one’s own skull. They’ve distilled a despairingly hellish vision of the world into a thundering crack to the temple, a naked and unsparing fusion of hardcore’s bleakest violence with metal’s ruthless strength-through-conviction. Cutting their teeth in the gutters of Melbourne’s teeming punk and hardcore scene, Geld established themselves as the forerunners of a new breed of deranged aggression with their first LP ‘Perfect Texture’ (Iron Lung Records and Static Shock Records). This record was followed in quick succession by the EP ‘Soft Power’ and LP ‘Beyond The Floor’, releases which saw the band progressively push their sound towards a heavier, dirge-inflected register. On Geld’s third LP—and first with Relapse Records— their miasmic excess gets a facelift. The result is a stripped bare, streamlined take upon hardcore in its purest form, reconstituted into a heavy, psychedelic dose of amphetamine thrills. Geld are thuggy and unshakably, unsettlingly real. Vocalist Al Smith’s vernacular is existential yet anti-philosophical. On their lead track ‘Fog Of War’, Geld inverts classic tropes of anti-war rhetoric and turns them inward, facing the listener with the terror of being subject to the whims of a world that has long since spiraled out of anyone’s control—least of all your own self. Listen alongside its arresting video directed by James Gorter.

Lyrics:

Fear of unknown worlds
Forced to march into death
You’re void of all hope
Across a front, a burning field
An unknown test in front of you
Who will make you walk?
Into the fog of war
Terror shakes you to the core
You’re void of all hope
Terror shakes you to the core
Who makes you walk into…?

Photo by ​​Anita Shao

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

North American dates TBA…

Geld: Tom Rowley (Drums) Pete Mclea (bass) Cormac Ó Síocháin (guitar) Al Smith (vocals)

‘Currency // Castration’ Tracklisting:

01 – Currency
02 – Chained To A Gate
03 – Cut You Down
04 – Clock Keeps Crawling
05 – Fog Of War (Official Music Video)
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

Album Artwork | Painted by Geld’s Tom Rowley

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.