AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: BTK (BIND TORTURE KILL) — “BANDAISON”

You’re about to see a violent short film in the company of violent music. The video doesn’t show us what the victim did to deserve his brutal punishment, if he did anything deserving of such a fatal encounter. We only get the headlong chase, a struggle in the mud, and the vengeance of the hangman’s noose.

Based on the name of the song presented through the video — “Bandaison” — the motivating factor may have been a perverse kind of sexual thrill, though whether the perversion took root in the victim or his assailant is ambiguous (the lyrics might shed light, but the expulsion of the words is so terrorizing that even those who speak French might face a challenge in deciphering them).

The perpetrators of the song are the French band BTK, which stands for Bind Torture Kill, and the source of the song is their forthcoming third album album Sauvagerie, which will eventually be released by a trio of labels on different formats. This one track will see digital release on September 12th.

BTK describe this new song:

“Bandaison is BTK’s most Power Violence piece – short with hard-hitting riffs. The aim of this song is to plunge the listener into chaos with an intense violence. The lyrics, like the music, are cold and uncompromising.

The song describes the last moments of a man brutally murdered by hanging, as well as the effects on his tortured body.

The music video illustrates what happens to him just before his execution: the chase and the fight with his executioner…”

The video also shows BTK throwing themselves into their performance of the song, and there’s violence in their own intensity too.

As for the music, BTK assault their listeners with full-bore percussive battery, the abrasive whining tones of ripping and roiling riffage, and utterly furious, larynx-rupturing howls. The assault is so vicious that it borders on maniacal, and yet it somehow also sounds cold in its cruelty.

In classic grindcore fashion, the song also eventually slows and descends, becoming brutish as it stomps and moans, with the vocals transforming into deathly roars, and here is where the music definitely becomes cold as the noose snuffs out the life.

The “Bandaison” video was directed by 8paths Studio. The music was recorded and mixed by Kris Banel at Warmaudio in Décines, France, and it was mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance East in Boston.

Sauvagerie will be released on CD by The Hills Are Dead Records, on tape by Breathe Plastic Records, and on vinyl by Dahlia Noir Records. For more info about the release as it becomes available, follow BTK via the links below.

Below, we’re also including a stream of the first single from the new album, “Cadavres“. It too is a ruinous and electrifying assault, a death/grind romp that brutally jackhammers the spine and also erupts in bursts of blast-beat destructiveness, waves of searing riffage, and flurries of squealing strings. The vocals are again completely unhinged and frightening, enhancing the madness in the music.

But near the end, “Cadavres” also transforms,  as a solo guitar mangles and mutilates the senses, a different and more dismal kind of sonic psychosis.

BTK:
https://btkmetal.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ind.torture.kill
https://www.facebook.com/BTK.bind.torture.kill.metal

THE HILLS ARE DEAD:
https://thehillsaredead.bandcamp.com

BREATHE PLASTIC:
https://www.breathe-plastic.org
https://breatheplastic.bandcamp.com

DAHLIA NOIR:
https://www.instagram.com/dahlia_noir_records