On April 22nd, New York City’s avant psych fuzz-rockers White Hills will premiere their new live set Splintered Metal Sky: The Concert exclusively on the newly launched platform Supernovasect, an online space presenting special weekly events that occur one-time only.

When 2020 began, the band—Dave W (guitar, vocals, synths) and Ego Sensation (bass, drums, synths, vocals)—were preparing an extensive US tour that would lead up to the release of a new album in the fall and then a European tour to support the record. We all know what happened next. Undaunted the duo opted to record a concert showcasing the album for people to watch at home. The catch is, it airs just the one time, so use it or lose it. Splintered Metal Sky: The Concert was filmed at Martin Bisi’s legendary BC Studios in Gowanus, Brooklyn with renowned producer Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) helming the audio board. A small, masked video crew transformed the recording studio into an atmospheric concert hall.

The show will air on April 22, 2021 at 9PM EST/CET/PST/AEDT on Supernovasect.

Splintered Metal Sky, the album, made it onto The Quietus’ Best Psych Rock of 2020 list, and here’s the video, below, for White Hills’ latest single, “Digital Trash.”

A trailer for ‘Splintered Metal Sky: The Concert’

 
Prolific New York-based psych rockers White Hills’ hypnotic, intense, riff-heavy music got them noticed by director Jim Jarmusch who decided to write his favorite band into his 2013 indie vampire film Only Lovers Left Alive. The critically acclaimed film starred Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston and featured White Hills—Dave W. on guitar and vocals and Ego Sensation on bass and vocals—as themselves playing their song “Under Skin Or By Name” in scene that takes place in a Detroit dive bar.
 

 
The first White Hills album, 2005’s No Game To Play was basically a solo project released by Dave W as a CD-R. Julian Cope reissued the album as They’ve Got Blood Like We’ve Got Blood on his Fuck Off and Di label and it’s no surprise that White Hills’ epic pounding—influenced by Hawkwind, the Stooges and the MC5—is something the Arch Drude felt he needed to get behind. Comedian Stewart Lee has also championed White Hills in a review of their self-released Glitter Glamour Atrocity in the pages of the Sunday London Times.

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