Victorian London’s Seven Dials was a knot of backstreets and bawdy rooms, a district where danger lurked with every turn. That same volatile energy drives SEVENDIALS: a collision of Mark Gemini Thwaite, Big Paul Ferguson, and Chris Connelly, veterans of Killing Joke, The Mission, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, and more. Their debut, A Crash Course in Catastrophe, delivers nine tracks steeped in industrial menace, post-punk drive, and the kind of rhythmic force built to ignite packed floors.
Wolves, the fourth single, arrives via Creation Youth Records, the label helmed by Killing Joke’s Youth and Creation’s Alan McGee. It’s a surging blast of electronic rock, where grinding guitars and squelching synths lock into melodies that soar without sacrificing bite. Ferguson’s drums hit like heavy ordnance, while Connelly’s vocal cuts clean through the mix, evoking the spirit of long-lost ’60s psychedelic garage, now cloaked in a haze of heavy alt-rock grit.
The single also packs a high-octane industrial metal remix from Los Angeles artist Travis Bacon (CONTRACULT COLLECTIVE), who drives the track into the red with full-bore metal choruses and a crushing edge that sharpens and amplifies its menace.
“Wolves was the first SEVENDIALS song that I worked on with Chris and Paul, and it set the tone for the record – strident, upbeat and menacing,” says Thwaite. “It always had a metal energy and what Travis Bacon has brought to his powerful remix is right up my strasse – full bore metal choruses, industrial angst – the song has become truly anthemic.”
The lyric video, created by Academy and Emmy Award-winning CG artist Dan Santoni, matches the song’s intensity with a visual blitz, taking us through icy glaciers and the hallways of haunted dwellings, encountering frosty cryptids and things that go bump…or skitter…in the night. Santoni’s film and television pedigree (The Golden Compass, Life of Pi, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead) gives the piece a cinematic punch.
Watch the video for “Wolves” below:
Released under Cadiz Music/Creation Youth, the brainchild of Killing Joke’s Youth and Creation’s Alan McGee. A Crash Course in Catastrophe kicks the door down with steel-toed boots. Nine tracks of chaos and communion, wired together with riffs that burn hot and drums built to rattle ribcages. Somewhere in the middle of it all, NYC latex renegade Ashley Bad slips into the mix with a fevered rendition of Animotion’s Obsession, jolted into the present by Youth’s remix work.
Out now via Cadiz Music/Creation Youth, A Crash Course in Catastrophe delivers on the promise of “Wolves”—an album that lunges forward with ferocious energy. It shifts gears without warning: one moment you’re in the blast radius of “Knife Without Asking,” MGT’s towering riff nodding toward Geordie Walker’s legacy; the next you’re dancing through a wired-up cover of Sparks’ “Number One Song in Heaven,” then stomping into “Whispering Wand,” all muscle and momentum. Every track feels built for late nights, loud rooms, and a crowd that never stops moving.
Order A Crash Course In Catastrophe here through Cadiz Merch. And listen to Wolves and its Contracult Remix here.
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