Dealing in sweaty groove and physical menace, Sex Swing are the British underground supergroup of Tim Cedar (keyboards), formerly of Ligament, who fronts Part Chimp and runs Dropout Studios in Camberwell; Jason Stoll (bass) is a member of revered Liverpool psych champions Mugstar, Colin Webster (sax) is involved with a plethora of free jazz projects, Dan Chandler (vocals) sang in the masterful Dethscalator and Stu Bell (drums) played in the same and Gin Palace, while newest addition Jodie Cox (guitar) currently also plays with Seattle drone metal overlords Earth.

Forged from the sum total of five distinct personalities with a welter of experience making wildly different music of various vivid hues, Sex Swing are a unique proposition. Forming in 2014, intense improvisational sessions in South London ensued and the result is an album which is a heady combination of Suicide, Joy Division, The Thing, Black Metal Raccoons, Motorhead, and Portishead.

They combine heinous volume, brute rhythmic throb and a twisted noise, which is crushingly disorientating while still being pretty good to dance to. Burning with distortion, flagellating peels of sax and synth debasement, they are the result of an intense musical coupling between five veterans of experimental noise rock.

Live dates -

2 December - London, Rough Trade East instore  - onstage at 6.30pm

3 December – Manchester, Star and Garter

4 December - Bristol, Exchange

6 December - London, The Quietus Winter Bash at Corsica Studios

Legendary New Jersey thrashers, Overkill, release their upcoming eighteenth album, The Grinding Wheel on February 10 via Nuclear Blast. You can sample it on the new lyric video for ‘Our Finest Hour’. The Grinding Wheel was produced by the band and mixed by Andy Sneap (Testament, Exodus, Accept). The artwork was created again by Travis Smith (Nevermore, Opeth).

New Jersey’s Overkill have never let their fans down; remaining musically consistent and true to their roots for an impressive 35 years, with an unprecedented 18 studio albums under their belts.

The massive contribution to thrash by heavy metal partners-in-crime Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth and bassist D.D. Verni (who co-founded Overkill the same year Ronald Reagan was elected President) is undeniable.

Overkill were formed about one year before Slayer and Anthrax and a couple of years ahead of Metallica, with all of the aforementioned bands pushing forward a new style of music drawing from NWOBHM, hard rock and punk.

The Grinding Wheel can be ordered here

Tracklisting

1. Mean Green Killing Machine

2. Goddamn Trouble

3. Our Finest Hour

4. Shine On

5. The Long Road

6. Let's All Go To Hades

7. Come Heavy

8. Red White And Blue

9. The Wheel

10. The Grinding Wheel