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Blackoutt Premiere Video for “Empty-M” from Madman LP

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Slovenian heavy rock four-piece Blackoutt will release their new album, Madman, this Fall with the backing of Rocket Panda Management. The record represents the completion of a trilogy of LPs from the Slovenski bruisers — also the end of a sentence — and it’s preceded by the first single “Empty-M,” which premieres in the video below.

Hey! You got two minutes for brash, raw heavy rock and roll? Yes, of course you do.

Blackoutt start and finish “Empty-M” with a due sense of charge, and their are vocals, or at least what seem to be vocals, but they’re so blown out it’s hard to know what’s being said. Either way, in following up 2013’s Behind and 2018’s The Culture Of, Madman encloses the theme that has served the band’s work up to this point in their career. It’s worth noting that “Empty-M” is shorter than anything that appeared on The Culture Of, which you can also stream at the bottom of this post, and even a rocker like “Sinister” on that album, or the guest-vocalized closer “Catacomba,” had a different sense of atmosphere. “Empty-M” is more punk, more about the sheer impact of the thing than the breadth, and so its stripped-down nature suits it well.

As to how it might represent the rest of Madman, beats me; I haven’t heard it. But energy behind “Empty-M” is infectious, and the color flashing, performance footage and constant motion of the camera in the video only suits the track as it thrusts through its brief runtime.

Two minutes. You’ve got two minutes.

Enjoy:

Blackoutt, “Empty-M” official video premiere

Blackoutt is a four-member instrumental grunge stoner rock band from Slovenia who, with its uncompromising riffs and psychedelic guitars, has been paving the way for other Slovene stoner bands on the club and festival scene, both at home and abroad for many years.

Blackoutt are releasing a brand new album called MADMAN, coming out Fall 2020. The release is is the final piece of a trilogy called “BEHIND THE CULTURE OF MADMAN”.

A music video of the track EMPTY-M is dropping out today and it’s definitely nearer to punk rock than dark stoner grunge sounds as we are used to hearing from them in the past. Remember: listen to it with the speakers at full blast!

The album is loaded with crushingly heavy riffs, noise and experimental parts. It tells a story of unrest and unease in the band’s trademark grunge/punk style. Although the end of a trilogy the band is far from done. We’ll be hearing more from them sooner rather than later, they say. But for now let’s dive into the foggy atmospheres, drug addiction stories and suicidal tendencies of MADMAN.

The album was recorded at the Studio Trainstation Kranj and mixed in UK by James Atkinson. MADMAN will be released in Fall 2020 with the support from Rocket Panda Management.

In 2013, the band released its debut album BEHIND, demonstrating decisive development in the band’s trademark atmospheric direction, which is even more clearly expressed on the second album THE CULTURE OF, which has been released in 2018.

BLACKOUTT is:
Klemen Cepar – guitar
Andrea Abbrescia – guitar
Luka Kralj – bass
Tomaž Cepar – drums

Blackoutt, The Culture Of (2018)

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