With their new record, Born To Kill, Caveman & The Banshee crack open the skull of sound and let the weird, sticky truths ooze out. The record swerves between lighthearted carnage, AI-fueled paranoia, and the suffocating beauty of a full-scale mental collapse.
There’s Star Trek existentialism, outsider anthems for the everywhere-nowhere crowd, and enough raw voltage to make your teeth hum.
Veterans of the great Canadian stage-demolition tour, they’ve shredded alongside the likes of Fucked Up, Shearing Pinx, and The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol. In 2025 and beyond, they intend to keep burning down stages, dragging their wreckage behind them like a badge of honor.
Dave Read and Valentina Cardinalli have worked in Moths & Locusts and Anunnaki, curated legendary underground hubs like Nanaimo’s White Room, and continued their NoiseAgonyMayhem empire. They breathe DIY chaos like oxygen.
What does this foaming-at-the-mouth madness sound like? Think Suicide short-circuiting into Daft Punk, Motorhead speeding through Nina Hagen’s nightmares, Parliament-Funkadelic on a folk horror bender. Atari Teenage Riot fighting ‘70s KISS in the ruins of Planet of the Apes.
It’s noise. It’s agony. It’s mayhem. And it absolutely rips. Check it out.
Grab the vinyl of Born To Kill by Caveman & The Banshee via Echodelick Records on Bandcamp here.
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