Reptilian Records prepares to release the Electrical Audio Studios-produced As Above, So Below, the first LP from Michigan noise rock kingpins GOD BULLIES in thirty years.
Originating in Kalamazoo, home of the state’s largest mental facility, the dark-edged satirists GOD BULLIES warped minds in the ‘90s by taking rock and garage-punk conventions and injecting them with massive overdoses of mental sickness, Midwestern perversion, backwoods hatred, and completely whacked-out speech sampling. Imagine Flipper crossed with Link Wray, fronted by a prison-bound Jim Bakker, and you might be close.
With several LPs and EPs on former label Amphetamine Reptile and various other independent labels, breaking up and shuffling members to return on West Coast’s Alternative Tentacles for their fourth LP in 1994, they again broke up. Mike Hard went on to perform in several bands including Thrall, Hand Over Head, and BrainSaw, with incestuous sharing of members between these bands, with the one constant through all this twisted output being the charismatic singer/psychopath, “Father” Mike Hard.
Fast-forward to 2024, and Father Hard and a core group of deranged Detroit disciples – guitarist Scott Kodrik, bassist Pat O’Harris, and drummer Cliff Carinci – have made the pilgrimage to Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio Studios to share their twisted, obsessive tales of conspiracies and fringe beliefs with the brainwashed masses! Boasting a much tighter, heavier and more sinister sounding GOD BULLIES, As Above So Below is set to rock the foundations of your faith; a dark, crude, and menacing attack that should appeal to fans of Jesus Lizard, Tomahawk, Easy Action, Melvins, Unsane, The Birthday Party, and the prime years of Amphetamine Reptile Records.
As Above So Below was recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago, produced by Sanford Parker and the band, engineered and mixed by Sanford Parker, and mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room Mastering in Chicago.
With the new single, “Cops In Plain Clothes,” Father Hard preaches, “The song is sage words of advice. Cops; They’re fucking everywhere. They are informers and infiltrators. Enforcers and instigators. Watch out for cops in plain clothes. They are imposters and impersonators. Provocateurs and perpetrators. Watch out for cops in plain clothes.”
Stream GOD BULLIES’ “Cops In Plain Clothes” at Bandcamp RIGHT HERE.
If you missed it, watch the band’s ripping “I Am Mighty” video HERE.
As Above, So Below will be available on LP – 250 on Red/Blue Split w/ White Splatter and 750 on Clear/Red/White/Blue Marble Mix – and digitally on October 4th. Find preorders at Reptilian Records’ webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. In Europe find the record through Sounds Of Subterrania HERE.
GOD BULLIES will take their endtime preachings on the road in support of the new album this Fall with As Above, So Below October 2024. See confirmed tour dates below and expect further live updates to follow.
GOD BULLIES As Above, So Below October 2024:
10/11/2024 Smalls – Detroit, MI
10/12/2024 Liars Club – Chicago, IL
10/18/2024 The Lift – Dubuque, IA
10/19/2024 TBA – Madison, WI
10/24/2024 Westside Bowl – Youngstown, OH
“…’I Am Mighty’ picks up right where GOD BULLIES left off, bringing that classic AmRep sound right into the 2020s.” – BrooklynVegan
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