Coilguns release new track; 'Watchwinders' released 25 October

Coilguns release new track; 'Watchwinders' released 25 October

Swiss noise rock/hardcore outfit, COILGUNS have released the first single titled, Manicheans from their boundary pushing upcoming full-length, Watchwinders. The track is a high-energy first taste of the bands powerful song structures and ability to seamlessly genre flip from progressive noise, hardcore, sludge, and turbulent math rock. Manicheans is streaming now, exclusively, at Revolver Magazine. LISTEN TO MANICHEANS VIA REVOLVER

About the track, guitarist Jona Nido comments,"This is a love song. We don't precisely refer here to an ancient Persian religion, but to a more generic conception of a world that's made of good and evil. Such a typical heavy metal theme... but let's leave metal and religion aside. This one is about love. Inclusive love, that embraces all types of attraction and empathy, that can turn any benevolent and polite human being into a narrow-minded selfish animal. This is us, ugly and beautiful. Everything we claim and reject. We wrote this song together, in a very horizontal and collective process. The main riff is a Frankenstein creature of mine and vocalist Louis Jucker ideas, and the bridge synth part is a good example of what Donatien Théivent (synth, vocals) has brought to the band, surfing over Luc's (drums) crawling beat."

Watchwinders was written and recorded during one intense month-long session, with the results being an urgent and challenging suite of unpolished bursts. Watchwinders sums up the sheer pleasure of doing things the unusual way with nods to punk, noise, hardcore and more; summarising COILGUNS' discordant nature perfectly. Excessively low-tuned guitars, gnarly synths and eccentric vocals are carried away by obsessive drumbeats; the album serves as a complex and utopian mechanism of perpetual motion, an urgent and clever series of sketches.

COILGUNS will tour Europe alongside Yautja, kicking off in the UK before traversing the mainland. Full dates are below.

1. Shortcuts

2. Subculture Encrypters

3. Big Writer's Block

4. Watchwinders

5. The Growing Block View

6. Manicheans

7. Prioress

8. The Morning Shower

9. A Mirror Bias

10. Urban Reserves

11. Broken Records

12. Periscope

Full tour dates:

  • 08.11 - Paris (F) @ Espace b
  • 09.11 - Sheffield (UK) @ Record Junkee
  • 10.11 - Leeds (UK) @ Temple of Boom
  • 11.11 - London (UK) @ The Macbeth Of Hoxton
  • 12.11 - Glasgow (UK) @ Broadcast
  • 13.11 - Manchester (UK) @ Satan's Hollow
  • 14.11 - Northampton (UK) @ TBA
  • 15.11 - Utrecht (NL) @ TBA
  • 17.11 - Gdansk (PL) @ Ziemia
  • 18.11 - Warsaw (PL) @ Poglos
  • 19.11 - Krakow (PL) @ Warsztat
  • 20.11 - Wroclaw (PL) @ DK Luksus
  • 21.11 - Berlin (D) @ Zukunft am Ostkreuz
  • 22.11 - Stuttgart (D) @ Ju-Ha West
  • 23.11 - Fribourg (CH) @ Hummus Fest / Fri-Son
  • 24.11 - Lyon (F) @ La Marquise
  • 26.11 - Clermont-Ferrand (F) @ Raymond Bar
  • 27.11 - Angers (F) @ Jokers Pub
  • 28.11 - Oss (NL) @ Lollipop
  • 29.11 - Fontaine l'Evêque (B) @ MCP Apache
  • 30.11 - Liège (B) @ La Zone
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