Sevendials Promise “A Crash Course In Catastrophe” With Debut Album

In the 19th century, London’s West End area known as Seven Dials was notoriously dangerous and disreputable; a very dangerous place to be after dark. This darkness and danger provided the perfect inspiration for the dusky, foreboding sounds created by the new musical union now known as Sevendials. Renowned musicians Mark Gemini Thwaite, Big Paul Ferguson & Chris Connolly, uninterested in resting on their collective laurels as members of Killing Joke, The Mission, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Murder Inc., Mob Research and Peter Murphy, have united to bring you a staggering monolith of melody and malady, volume and velocity and a brace of new songs, reflecting all the tension, angst and spiritual bankruptcy of the times, along with some brighter than neon dance compulsions. Sevendials debut album, A Crash Course In Catastrophe, is due for release on the 4th April via Cadiz Music and Creation Youth, the fresh imprint formed by Martin ‘Youth’ Glover (Killing Joke) and Alan McGee (Creation Records).

The first single, Zodiac Morals, is a swaggering premonition of disaster propelled by the thunder of Big Paul Ferguson‘s iconic drums, Mark Gemini Thwaite‘s weaponized guitar and the transcendiary vocals of Chris Connolly. The album boots into life with a high-energy cover of Sparks‘ Number One Song In Heaven which perfectly sets the tone for an album that throbs with dark electronica, pounding rock and shimmering bad acid psychedelia, all juxtaposed with the kind of addictive hooks and melodies that embed themselves deep within your subconscious. From the grinding, moody power of Knife Without Asking, to the gorgeous backwoods stomp of Whispering Wand, A Crash Course In Catastrophe is eclectic, compulsive and thrilling from start to finish. This is not the idle musings of bored rock stars trying to remain relevant, this is serious business in serious times.

“Using the stars to guide you because the terrain is always too dark: are the stars twinkling with hope? Or are they spent and dead infernos? The word zodiac began to have negative implications when the zodiac killer became part of the collective zeitgeist, anti-morals, zodiac morals. We are all fans of the Mael brothers, and with Sparks recently being awarded the “outstanding contribution to music” award at the association of independent music awards, we decided to take the song that bled out and showered the dance floor back then, updating it with muscular guitars and thunderous drums. It’s now a 2025 declaration of (disco) intent, yeah: we can dance as well as rock, we do it fast to beat the clock.”