Formed in Lille, France, Love Sex Machine have spent more than a decade developing one of the most recognisable strains of contemporary sludge. From their earliest recordings the band established an approach built around weight, repetition and confrontation, stripping heavy music down to its most physical components while retaining a distinct sense of brutal humour. Love Sex Machine continue to expand through sludge, post-metal, post-hardcore and blackened extremity as a band with zero interest in restraint or convention.
“We never start a record with a theme. This one was finished way before we had any idea what it was. Then one of us played the whole thing back and said it sounded unhinged and desperate, so we gave it the most wholesome title we could think of, Thriving. It’s the kind of word you might see on a corporate motivational poster. It didn’t feel right, which is on brand for a metal band called Love Sex Machine.“
(Yves) Uncompromising, darkly humorous and physically overwhelming, Love Sex Machine‘s new album ‘Thriving’ is “…uglier, more direct and more violent than anything we’ve done.“ (Yves) Though routed in a violent approach to sludge, they constantly distort that foundation through the angular precision of modern metal, the tension of post-hardcore and the colder, more hostile colours of black metal. The songs arrive and sustain such density and repetition that their massive depth of sound is unapologetically abrasive; rattling listeners to the core and giving direct access to the human shadow in all its vile glory.