PRIMITIVE KNOT - Fight The Future LP

Limited edition of 225 copies.

"Manchester’s Primitive Knot return with an inspired album of dark, crushingly heavy riffs and dystopian dread.

Listening to Fight The Future, it’s hard to believe that it’s the work of one man. Obscured by a balaclava and going by the name Jim Knot, the prolific one-man riff-machine creates the kind of overwhelming sonic assault you’d usually associate with a full band. While undeniably uncompromising there’s something deeply enthralling and addictive about this ludicrously heavy combination of metal, industrial and psych-rock influences. Last year’s superb Lost Wisdom was always going to be a difficult album to follow yet this latest offering may just be the most fully-realised Primitive Knot album to date.

Alongside the bone-rattling riffs, Primitive Knot presents listeners with a vivid and detailed aesthetic. This is music that seems to exist between the pages of Orwell’s iconic 1984, the intergalactic nightmares of HR Giger and the disturbing fever dreams of David Cronenberg. Much like James Woods subsumed the dreaded Videodrome into his very being, Knot fully absorbs his influences. The album uses sci-fi and horror to deliver an extremely pertinent message of dissent, anger and protest. The dystopian imagery perhaps once reserved for novels and film now interwoven with the daily news. As the title suggests, Fight The Future isn’t about to lie down and give up." Louder Than War