SPLIT CRANIUM

I’m The Devil And I’m Ok IPECAC US and Finnish A-Listers dial up a crust/ krautrock conundrum

Every time Al Gore looks at his creation – a little thing called

‘the internet’ – and considers how it has devolved into a haven for Snapchat filters and illicit privacy breaches, he must weep. Buck up, Al, there are people putting it to good use! Those include Aaron Turner, Faith Coloccia, Nate Newton, Tomi Leppänen and Jussi Lehtisalo – names you might recognise from Converge, Isis, Circle, Mammifer and more. Split Cranium utilise technology to bridge the distance between America and Finland in the creation of adventurous hardcore punk that forcefeeds krautrockstyled keyboards into d-beat powered punk. The infectious, melodic riffs, overlaid guitars and barrel-chested vocals are further accented by atmospheric, spacey soundtrack washes in the cultural collision of controlled crust-core and slashing noise that at once provides a sonic energising and restores faith in the productive capacities of the human-technology dyad. FOR FANS OF: DISFEAR, TAU CROSS, ANTI-CIMEX