The Shattered Mind Machine – Achilles Heel
Album | 25/04/2025 | Monobuster Records
31:59 | 9 tracks | Vinyl/CD/Digital
Post Punk / Garage Rock
Winterthur, Switzerland
Deafening Silence, Blinding Darkness
Only two years after the relase of their third longplayer Technokrat, Winterthur’s The Shattered Mind Machine are back with another album. For half an hour, the Swiss trio proves that they are still hungry, active, and passionate. Achilles Heel is another chapter of the band’s cohesive and constant development. The nine-track album builds on the previous releases and once again pushes the boundaries of heavy, psychedelic, snotty, and dark rock music. Achilles Heel is a sonic explosion born from the intense voltage field between post punk and proto punk. Heavy garage rock clashes with gloomy darkwave, and sedating psychedelic rock embraces melancholic post punk. And finally, there is that very special ingredient that makes garage rock and post punk from Switzerland so uniquely vibrant, energetic, thrilling.
Basement Rocket Launch
Surrounded by narcotic darkness and paralysing cold, Simon Hirzel (bass and vocals), Dominik Jucker (drums), and Simon Fehr (guitars, synths and backing vocals) seeked shelter in their basement rehearsal room. From here, a musical rocket to escape from all negativity has launched. The Shattered Mind Machine have forged a sonic getaway from the madness of our contemporary reality. Achilles Heel has been recorded, produced by Yvo Petrzilek at Verwaltzen Productions in Kollbrunn, and mastered by Justin Weis at Traxwork in San Francisco, and it has become a high velocity escape ride through a monochrome kaleidoscope of flickering lights and transforming shapes. The Shattered Mind Machine have surpassed and reinvented themselves once again without leaving their unique paths. This album is just like its third title, Flawless.
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