VIDEO PREMIERE: Coilguns announce Ireland Tour & debut "Millenials" live performance

Fresh from decimating the UK and Europe with a string of stunning live shows following the release of their critically lauded new LP, “Millenials” Coilgunsare set to hit Ireland for a batch of live  dates kicking off on the 15^th May.  The band commented:

"We’ve toured Ireland twice a few years back and we are stoked to be returning to the place where we’ve made so many friends. We’re even happier that the tour is promoted by Ruiair and Josh from FEAST. We toured together with Josh’s band Ilenkus back then and when FEAST just started doing local shows. It’s great to see them now taking over national tours. As this wasn’t not enough, support for these shows will come from Bailer which features David Cleere on bass. I can’t even recall since when David and us are friends but sharing the tour with him and the lads will surely be a blast. Ireland, get your helmets on."

“Millennials “is available at the following links.  For physical: here and digital at the usual outlets.  To demonstrate just how devastating their live performances are,  check out the ferocious performance of their track “Millennials” below.  A full list of dates can also be found below.  

Coilguns Irish Live Rituals:

May 15th - Belfast @ Voodoo Belfast w/ Disconnect, Bosco Ramos*
Coilguns / Bailer / Disconnect / Bosco Ramos

May 16th - Dublin @ Grandsocial*

May 17th - Cork @ Fred Zeppelins w/ God Alone.*
Coilguns / Bailer / God Alone (Cork)

May 18th - Limerick @ Dolans Pub w/ Shardborne*
Coilguns / Bailer / Shardborne - Kasbah, Dolans, Limerick

May 19th - Galway @ Roisin Dubh*
Coilguns + Bailer

Band info: facebook || bandcamp

ALBUM REVIEW: Coliguns, "Millennials"

By: Charlie Butler

Album Type: Full Length

Date Released: 23/03/2018

Label: Hummus Records

“Millennials” is a whirlwind of chaos interspersed with periods of hypnotic heaviness. Coilguns have crafted a killer record played with a hunger and venom that leaves all competitors eating their dust.

“Millennials” CD//DD//LP track listing:

1). Anchorite
2).  Deletionism
3).  Millennials
4).  Spectrogram
5).  Music Circus Clown Care
6).  Ménière’s
7).  Wind Machines For Company
8).  Self Employment Scheme
9).  Blackboxing
10).  The Screening

The Review:

Fans of the chaotic heaviness of classic Hydra Head bands like Keelhaul and Knutneed Coilgunsnew LP “Millennials” in their lives. The unpredictable Swiss quartet have taken that powerful early 2000s sound, imbued it with their distinct brand of mayhem and dragged it screaming into the present.

“Anchorite” opens proceedings with a slowly unfurling locked groove that sounds like Mastodon’s “Remission” being dragged into a pit of sludge. The uncomfortable, dark atmosphere cast by this track persists throughout this mesmerising record that flits between simmering controlled carnage as demonstrated on “Self Employment Scheme” and brief bursts of head-scratching math-metal like “Music Circus Clown Care”.

The title track demonstrates Coilguns ability to temper their complexity with raw, paint-stripping punk rock intensity. Few bands can deliver this kind of raging adrenaline rush, hurtling into oblivion like their sadly missed Swiss comrades Krugeron a collision course with the sun. A looming doom riff appears to signal a snail-paced climax before the drums thunder back in at full speed to maintain the rapid velocity.

This is just one example that highlights the importance of Luc Hess’ drumming. More often than not, the drumming on these tracks will pursue an unexpected path for a band of this style to great effect. “Spectrogram” is based on an ominous, tom-heavy pattern that has more in common with post-punk than metal or hardcore. Its ominous repetition provides the perfect backdrop for the bands lumbering riffs and slowly building wall of sound. The restrained menace and eerie twinkly keyboard sounds conjure up a claustrophobic mood that brings to mind the underrated Breach. When the band lock into a punishing, Shellacstyle riff on “Deletionism”, the drums shuffle in and around the riff instead of providing the expected punishing groove. This makes it all the more powerful when the beat returns to more traditional heavy territory.

“Millennials” is a whirlwind of chaos interspersed with periods of hypnotic heaviness. Coilguns have crafted a killer record played with a hunger and venom that leaves all competitors eating their dust.

“Millennial” is available here

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VIDEO PREMIERE: Swiss chaotic wrecking crew Coilguns make a statement with "Millennials"

You know that feeling when you discover a new band and they basically knock you on your ass, rewind to March 2012 and by the luck of happenstance I discovered Swiss chaotic hardcore post whatever you want to call it sludge titans Coilguns and their hugely impressed debut EP “Stadia Rods”, a 6 song set all the more bewildering by the fact it was recorded by the band (a then three piece) live in one take with little or no overdubs, it was a hugely impressive debut and left a lasting mark upon me.  Fast forward a year and the band would issue debut full length “Commuters”via Pelagic Records,  an album with its frequent twists and turns, both confused and enthralled me  in equal measure,  resulting in a record that unfolded over time and one that with repeated sessions unveiled yet more intricacies and hidden moments of wonder amongst the chaos. 

Well, after 5 long years Coilguns are back with new album “Millennials”, which is set for release via their own imprint Hummus Recordson 23^rd March.  “Millennials” is a violent and over-the-top distorted record, born in a completely saturated scene and the band are ready to deliver a statement, that this isn’t a band to messed with and is one to take notice of in 2018.

“Millennials” was written and recorded in January 2016 by the band, self-engineered on the inside of the desperate monoculture landscapes of central Germany. What is a breathless, lo-fi and lo-tuned epileptic record that roughly questions their own behavior as partially conscious citizens of a scary weird and exciting globalized music world.

The band commented, "We have this manic habit of using crazy sounding Wikipedia article titles as track names, just to blur our traces and look smart I guess. It always creates a funny gap in between the song's lyrical content and its final title. Our favorite on this album is clearly "spectrogram", one can easily guess why."  You can check out the exclusive  and stellar album title track “Millenials” below and preorders are available here 

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