RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON - THE BESTIAL LIGHT

Dutch experimentalists RMFTM are ushering in their tenth year as a band

with their sixth full-length 'The Bestial Light', due for release May 8th via

Fuzz Club and marking yet another evolution in sound and line-up from

the shape-shifting Eindhoven-based collective. Across their extensive

back-catalogue and many collaborations (including with the likes of Gnod,

The Cosmic Dead and 10 000 Russos, as well as the occasional art piece),

the band have moved from expansive space-rock to avant-garde drone

and industrial techno. Now, however, is the time for something else.

Bolstered by the addition of a vocalist and second drummer, the

incendiary 'Bestial Light' LP sees the band move on from the electronic

experimentations of the Subversive album trilogy (culminating in their

most-recent LP, 2018's 'De Spelende Mens') and last year's 'Bliss' EP.

Their new direction, instead, finds them journeying into a dissonant

industrial punk sound that's Einstürzende Neubauten and early Swans by

way of Neurosis and Godflesh. Fusing heavy industrial rhythm sections,

biting post-punk vocals and crushing "acid metal" riffs, the new

incarnation of Radar Men From The Moon aka RMFTM is comprised of core

members Glenn Peeters (guitar), Tony Lathouwers (drums), Titus

Verkuijlen (bass) and Bram van Zuijlen (guitar/synth), with the addition

of Joep Schmitz (drums) and Harm Neidig (vocals / saxophone). Not long

after recruiting the new members, the now-expanded RMFTM headed

back into the studio with their long-term producer Bob de Wit (Gnod, A

Place to Bury Strangers, Mudhoney), laying down the new album in 14-

hour shifts over 12 days: "We were constantly 100% on it so the process

was quite intense but also very rewarding. You can definitely hear that on

the record." On the album's theme, borne out just as much in their

creative approach as it is as the lyrics and instrumentation, they say: "We

wanted to write about everything instinctual in mankind, individual

desires and true will. Transgression and the seductiveness of unreason."

Unsurprising, then, that 'The Bestial Light' is such a primitive, borderlinedepraved affair; one that constantly feels like it's hurtling towards an

edge that you're never quite sure you want to look over.

TRACKLISTING: 01. BREEDING 02. PISS CHRIST 03. SACRED CUNT OF

THE UNIVERSE 04. EDEN IN REVERSE 05. THE BESTIAL LIGHT 06. SELF

07. PLEASURE 08. LEVELLING DUST