Long Beach, CA Punk/Metal band CARSEX has released their ferocious new EP “Human Interest”, which is a deep dive into timely themes about the current state of our chaotic world. They channel their anger and angst into 7 pummeling tracks. The EP was produced by Steve Evetts (Sepultura, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Butcher Babies) at Maple Studios in Santa Ana, CA, and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music in New Windsor, NY.
The EP’s focus track, ‘Landmine’, is a heavy, chugging anthem that forges ahead like a sonic M1 Abrams Tank. CARSEX singer Nigel Burk says “Landmine’ is a follow-up to our song ‘Your Lesson’, which delved into succumbing to various forms of temptation and how we’re taught to fear divine retribution if we fall prey to these desires. “Landmine” takes it a step further – it’s akin to a bad acid trip where everything is distorted… You realize that there is no absolution, and you’re going to burn anyway. It’s like walking through a field of landmines – you’re going to blow up, no matter what you do.”
Director Chris Michael explains the “Landmine” video concept: “I teamed up with my buddies in CARSEX to bring their video ‘Landmine’ to life. This track’s a banger, and I was honored to storyboard and shoot it. The concept dives into the effects of an acid trip: The cool blue colors for the initial calm, then harsh reds and awkward angles take over as the hallucinations hit. We swapped the mic for a grenade to push the hallucinatory theme further.” He continues: “We were under red and blue lighting for hours so long we thought we were tripping…. Some of the guys swore the colors were shifting and moving. Everything about the shoot stayed true to the theme: chaos, distortion, and the constant threat of land mines.”
CARSEX has previously released 2 songs from the EP – “Crooked Canvas” and “Sitting Ducks”, with both tracks gaining support on Heavy Music playlists including Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Pandora, and Audiomack. The band’s other releases include 2019’s CarSex and 2020’s 2020 EP, which featured the singles “Your Generation” and “Lovesick”. The band is scheduling shows in support of the EP release and will be doing an extended tour in the fall.
About Carsex
Forged by the survivors of Long Beach music scene bands Damned Age, Black Velvet Brigade, and Red River Massacre, these five music veterans have slugged it out in the clubs of Orange County, California for more than 10 years. While performing shows in these various groups on the circuit, they became friends over time. As the bands they were in either dissolved or changed direction, they decided to form under a new banner with shared musical tastes and goals, and CARSEX formed in 2018.
With influences spanning from the early Los Angeles punk sound, such as the Circle Jerks, Black Flag & the Germs, to the Doors and Danzig, plus more modern monsters like Queens of the Stone Age, Murder City Devils & Fu Manchu – they play hard and loud with no hint of an apology. It’s not easy to put a definite tag on the sound or pinpoint exactly what’s going on… It’s like that strange feeling you get when you’re in the back seat in the throes of passion (or down front in the pit). You need to be in the moment to interpret it for yourself. CARSEX has previously released 2 EPs: 2019’s CarSex and 2020’s 2020 EP, which featured the singles “Your Generation” and “Lovesick”.
The band is stepping up their game in 2024, and is following up the success of their first single & video “Crooked Canvas” with blistering new track “Sitting Ducks”. The band recorded the song at Maple Sound Studios in Santa Ana, CA, with producer Steve Evetts (Sepultura, Alesana, Poison the Well, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Butcher Babies) and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New Windsor, NY.
CARSEX is very much a live band, and shows are currently being booked to support their new music releases. They’ve opened for Stillwell (Fieldy from Korn’s Band), The Obsessed, Mondo Generator, Suicide Silence, Unsane, Dead Poets Society, Narcoleptic Youth, and O’Zorn!, among others. The power of their pure degradation of the stage, combined with sexually charged, exorcism-esque energy during their performance, sets a ritual scene that one must be a part of to fully understand. The heart-pounding drums & bass that could blow the clothes off anything with legs, screaming guitars with solos that go both ways, and howling vocals that turn speaking in tongues into English. This is CARSEX.
SOURCE: Official Bio
Featured image by Chris Michael Media.
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