Clan of Xymox returneth! Following our podcast interview with frontman Ronny Moorings earlier this year, the band have released their new album out today through Metropolis Records, entitled Limbo. a record that arrives exactly one year after their previous release Spider On The Wall.
Limbo is a masterstroke of modern goth rock, expanding the signature Clan of Xymox sound to create a captivating take on this moment in our history. As with most musicians with time on their hands after lockdown, Clan of Xymox began crafting new material – but unlike many bands who simply used the time to work on irons in the fire, Xymox turned quarantine into a brilliant concept album about the pandemic itself.
With Limbo, Clan Of Xymox remains at the top of their songwriting game, certainly one of the most poignant and timely albums to come out of the Covid era. The album opens with the explosive, plaintive “Brave New World”, with Ronny Moorings’ signature voice in fine form. It’s followed by “Lockdown”, a fast-paced, unsettling track peppered with eerie synth accents lamenting the madness incurred with social distance. The paranoid “Big Brother” makes a scathing nod to camera culture.
“The Great Reset” and the emotionally-charged Forgotten get more introspective, hauntingly musing over societal changes and injustices. The pace picks back up with Limbo, a goth-heavy narrative questioning this paralyzing state of mind. “No Way Out” churns through the labyrinth of the mind at a quicker rate, a panic attack doubling as a club banger. “In Control” taps into a more classic Clan of Xymox sound with big hooks, echoing classics like A Day. This energy is yanked into a minor chord in The Great Depression, a track about a struggling collective with a gorgeously ghostly hook. “The One Percent” is a scathing critique of top-tier fat cats and unforgiving governments. “Dystopia” opens with a sinister riff off of the classic Rock and Roll Part II, a nightmarish vision bringing to mind the destroyed yellow brick road of Return to Oz. The album finishes with a higher energy question on all our minds – “How Long?”
This is some of the best work Clan of Xymox has ever produced. From start to finish, Limbo is both highly catchy and deep. Listen below:
To support the album, Clan of Xymox 2022 North American tour dates appear below. The second leg of the tour features Curse Mackey as support, who recently released the Clan of Xymox Remix video of his song ‘Submerge”.
Clan of Xymox Tour Dates:
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