By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam
Review: Zabus’s album Automatic Writhing – Release date: October 24, 2024
While they were around, Joy Division touched upon quite a number of genres from post punk, to goth, electro, and even industrial.
Quite a number of bands and artists picked up on what Joy Division left behind, and one of the latest bands to do so is Washington D.C.’s Zabus who after the band’s inception in 2023, released three offerings – ‘Doctrine of The Void’ (2023), ‘Future of Death (April, 2024) and now ‘Automatic Writhing’ (October, 2024).
As the titles indicate, Zabus focus on the darker side of these genres, incorporating on all the good (darker) elements of Joy Division, as well as Siouxie and The Banshees and a number of key industrial bands and artists, adding elements of avant-garde throughout, not limiting themselves to being Joy Division wannabes.
Zabus is the brainchild of Jeremy Moore, multi instrumentalist, writer, founder and curator of Washington D.C. non profit artist collective and label Saccharine Underground. With a focus on dark ambient, avant-garde, experimental, gothic and psychedelic rock, the label has been home to several of Moore’s projects including Thee Rise Ov Sadistic Youth (death rock), Zero Swann (free improvisation/psychedelic) and Gorazde (dark ambient/experimental/psychedelic rock).
It seems that Moore and his collaborators have unified all the elements of other projects of the label into Zabus, creating an album that will surely be a (dark) delight to fans of all of the above genres.
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