After three years of death, madness, injury, and hearing loss, Sydney’s shit-stirring Surf Punks TANTICHRIST are preparing to launch their full length, self-titled debut album. Twelve searing slabs of satirical savagery, Tantichrist is a time capsule of post-covid Sydney. Each track is skillfully composed, played, and recorded mixing elements of Hard Core, Punk, the high treble guitars of Surf music, and even slight touches of fifties Jazz to lay the foundation for a monster, twelve track album ladened with cutting lyrics and a healthy dose of satire.
Weaving a dark tale of a city under siege by the forces of greed and corruption, the album documents a culture that has been strangled through various forms of lockdown for over ten years. A savage attack against a society obsessed with material wealth and postcard glamour, TANTICHRIST rail for the people that get left behind in the explosive way their D.I.Y. culture springs up through the cracks like weeds in concrete.
“This town has been under an iron boot for twelve years. Before the lockdowns, we had the lockouts. A cynical power grab that used a senseless violent attack on a young man as an excuse to put a strangle-hold on Sydney’s vibrant nightlife culture, driving people to the new casino and forcing countless businesses and venues to close their doors, opening the way for their greedy developer mates. Meanwhile an average of one woman is killed every eleven days in domestic violence incidents around the country and Sydney has now become the second least affordable city in the world. People are looking for answers at a time when the very concept of information itself has become an unsolvable puzzle. There is a dark sickness lurking beneath the glossy image of this city, but there is also a thriving underground culture with a lot to say that refuses to die.” – Mitch Hertz
The vinyl copy of Tantichrist is available through Evil Tone Records and through all the usual streaming channels from Wednesday 04 November. TANTICHRIST will be presenting the album live, in full, on Friday 30 October Marrickville Bowling Club with very special guests The Strike-Outs and The Sugar Beats. Twenty dollars entry, doors open at 07:00 pm.
Pre-sale tickets are in the link below.
