BLACK MAGNET: “Punishment Map” By Industrial Metal Outfit Now Playing; Hallucination Scene Debut LP Nears September Release Through 20 Buck Spin + Preorders Posted

20 Buck Spin prepares to release Hallucination Scene, the debut LP from industrial metal outfit BLACK MAGNET in September, today unveiling preorders as well as a new single, “Punishment Map.”

The sonic magnitude of industrial metal and post-punk muscularity, heavy synth textures and rhythmic militance imbue BLACK MAGNET’s Hallucination Scene with a frenetic pulse acutely attuned to the head on collision of alternate dystopian timelines that is 2020.

With all vocals, guitars, synthesizers, drum programming, and samples written and performed by James Hammontree, Hallucination Scene was recorded at Decade Studio in Chicago, Illinois by Sanford Parker (Eyehategod, Darkthrone, Spirit Adrift), mixed by Parker at the Hypercube, mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room, and completed with cover imagery by James Ventura.

20 Buck Spin will release Hallucination Scene September 4th on LP, CD, and all digital formats. Find preorders at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “Divination Equipment” is also streaming HERE.

BLACK MAGNET – Punishment Map (From ‘Hallucination Scene’ LP, 2020)

While birthed in the late 1980s, it was in the 1990s that the “industrial metal” genre came to full fruition with the likes of Godflesh, Ministry, Pitch Shifter, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, and even Nine Inch Nails carving out (or in some cases sampling) metal inspired riffing over a backbone of electronic malevolence and brutal machine driven percussion. In that tradition, BLACK MAGNET offers the haunted pummeling synthesis that is their debut album, Hallucination Scene.

From the initial battering of opener “Divination Equipment,” it is clear BLACK MAGNET plays heavy guitar focused music with equal devotion to industrial rhythms and electronic machine thunder. Throughout the punishing lurch a dark melodic sense throbs with uniform attention paid to the club floor as much as the mosh pit. All the while BLACK MAGNET progenitor James Hammontree guides the hallucinatory torment and ecstasy with his acerbic delivery.

Watch for additional audio previews to be issued over the coming weeks. Fans of Godflesh, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Front Line Assembly, Pitch Shifter, Killing Joke, and Statiqbloom should not miss this record.

Live, Hammontree is joined by a full lineup. BLACK MAGNET is prepared to tour heavily if the current biblical plague ever ends.

For review copies of Hallucination Scene and all coverage of BLACK MAGNET in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact wolf@sureshotworx.de.