{"product_id":"fangs","title":"FANGS","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn their third album, FANGS, London collective HMLTD have created an entirely new genre: Götherdammerüng (or ÜberGöth). Predictably unpredictable, it could not be further away from their last outing, 2023 rock opera \u003cem\u003eThe Worm.\u003c\/em\u003e The sixteen-piece orchestra has been traded in for Ableton, the timpani and violins replaced with side-chained four-to-the-floor and rave synths, and the gospel choir swapped for guttural gothic howling and black metal screams. The result is both unique and terrifying: a total reinvention and rehabilitation of the goth genre, through the looking glass of modern electronic and doomscroll-era dance music.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new beginning was accompanied by a change in personnel, with Theo Spark and Andrei Martynchyk joining the fray alongside original members Henry Spychalski and Duc Peterman. Decamping to a ruined château in the Loire Valley, the quartet became obsessed with vampire lore, and the EBM and goth sound that inspired their early work: Fad Gadget, DAF, Nitzer Ebb, Suicide and Bauhaus. FANGS also points to more contemporary influences like Crystal Castles, German hardcore, 2000s blog-house a la Justice, and 2020s sleazepop.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe world crafted in FANGS is full of cosmic pessimism, glowing horror, imperceptible evil and digital dismemberment, ancient curses and ruined castles, Vampires. But it is also a thoroughly fun, and funny, record, as danceable as it is deep. Born of the club, some tracks would not sound out of place on Brat. Like a Smiths song which sounds happy and carefree until your brain tunes in to the misery of the lyrics, it can be listened to - and enjoyed - on two levels. One can get lost in the throb of bass and ludic synths, or tune into the horror of the lyrics which overlay them.    \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFANGS attempts to offer up a reflection to a culture that - like a Vampire - has lost its own. The result is something not only thoroughly modern, original, and inventive - but that feels genuinely dangerous and potent. FANGS delights in this ambiguity: simultaneously indicting decadence, decay, and moral rot, while luxuriating in its intoxication by it. Cacophonous sub-bass becomes a chthonic call of the void; seraphic rave synths become the screech of Valkyries; four-to-the-floor becomes a deathly funeral march. Vampire apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucky Number","offers":[{"title":"LP - Götherdämmerung Edition - Black and Ivory \/ Signed","offer_id":58262562242891,"sku":"R4208-4822","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":58262562275659,"sku":"R4208-5063","price":32.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58262562308427,"sku":"R4208-1432","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/HMLTD-FANGS-LUCKY185LP-Packshot.jpg?v=1787775379","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/fangs","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}