The Battery Farm Look For Meaning In The Universe On New Single “O God”

O God is the 13th single from Manchester, UK doom punks The Battery Farm, the track marks a bold expansion of the band’s signature gutter punk sound, adding elements of garage and metal to an already potent mix to create something dark, heavy, taut and unhinged. O God explores the idea of being alone in a universe of chaos, with no guiding hand to stop you plummeting into a hell of someone else’s making. We always ask why, and we always search for meaning. O God is paired with the B-side Find and is out today via Rare Vitamin Records through streaming platforms and Bandcamp and on CD and 7 inch single, It is the first single from The Battery Farm‘s upcoming sophomore album, Dark Web, which will be released on the 29th November.

Dark Web is essentially an inner monologue set against the backdrop of the epoch of existential terror we live in. It is a personal navigation of that epoch. The album weighs a single life against the spectre of the third world war, the endless doomfeed of the 24 hour news cycle, the livestreaming of genocidal acts, our merciless capacity for dehumanisation, the continuing rise of the fascist far right, the knowledge that other people’s pain is all around us, and the fact that now, more than ever, our collective future is less unwritten than unknowable abyss. It asks how we can survive all that, knowing full well that we do. It is The Battery Farm‘s descent down the rabbit hole, into the pitch black.

This is reflected in the sound of the album, which takes the band’s signature Gutter Punk sound and moves it to a darker, more experimental place, taking in elements of Industrial, Goth, Post Punk, UK Garage, Math Rock and Nu Metal to create something singular. Where their debut album FLIES was a howl of gnarly Gutter Punk rage, Dark Web is more introspective, ruminative and in many ways quieter, but no less powerful or ferocious. The album is stark, unflinching, contemplative and, above all, human, with all the contradictions, vulnerabilities and complexities that entails. It marks an ambitious leap forward for a band that never sits still. Whereas FLIES was a howl of rage, Dark Web is a howl of unspeakable terror.