Electric Callboy have debuted a music video for their new track, “The Way You Are”. Drawing inspiration from 90s boy band ballads, the song will be part of the band’s soon-to-be-released long player Tanzneid.
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Bloodstock Bound: Carrier
Bloodstock Bound: Carrier
As Bloodstock gets closer, we delve deep into the line up to find out more about some of the bands playing the New Blood and EMP stages at this years event.
Today we chat with Carrier
Please introduce yourselves.
My name is Kris and I am the vocalist of CARRIER. Thomas (Totti) is our drummer, Jonah our bassist, and Seb & Matt are our two guitarists.
How would you describe your sound?
Our style of music is very inspired by 2000’s era metalcore, that also bleeds into the early 2010’s. We are very inspired by bands such as Bleeding Through, Parkway Drive, The Devil Wears Prada, Like Moths To Flames, Counterparts etc. We love to combine this however, with our love of hardcore too. There’s a fair bit of Malevolence, Terror, Stick To Your Guns inspiration in there too.
Our goal with our music is to almost bring back that early 2000’s/early 2010’s feel with a combined love of both older metalcore and hardcore, all whilst telling a story as well. The way our songs are put together in both a studio and live setting are designed to tell a story more so than being a collection of songs.
Our debut album ‘I Will Show You Misery’ came out in April of this year and we believe that when you listen to it, it almost becomes an immersive experience and a story that you can follow emotionally and sonically.
How did you land your spot on the Bloodstock bill?
We landed our slot on Bloodstock by winning the Devon & Cornwall M2TM, which we are so unbelievably stoked about, we can’t wait!
How tough was the competition this year?
It was a very tough competition this year. You have to give credit to every band that entered and the other bands we came up against in the final. Bury The Hordes, Stealth Moose & Parlay.
I say this in every interview and CANNOT stress it enough that the Devon & Cornwall music scene is so criminally overlooked for the amount of talent that we have down here. More light needs to be shown on it.
What does playing at Bloodstock mean to you?
It means so much to us and we’re so excited. This will be our first major festival appearance and to be on a line up with so many giants of the scene is incredible. We intend to rock up, be as professional as possible, grab this opportunity by the horns and give it everything we possibly can.
For people who’ve never seen you live, what can they expect at Bloodstock?
They can expect a lot of energy. We’re a band that thrives off giving off as much movement and energy as possible whilst performing. We hope that if we give off the energy on our side, then the crowd will reflect this and do the same so that everyone is having a good time.
We’re not a band that has a lot of silence in our sets. Spaces in between songs are filled with soundscapes and interludes, we do this to try and keep the audience engaged. It also helps us maintain that element of telling a story through our live set.
You can expect Lots of riffs, big breakdowns and massive singalongs!
What day are you performing?
We are performing on Friday on the New Blood stage.
What other bands are you looking forward to watching at Bloodstock this year?
Bleed From Within, Body Count, Lamb Of God, Fit For An Autopsy, Overpower….just to name a new!
Playing the New Blood Stage is just the first steppingstone in a bands journey. What’s next in your plans for world domination?
We have quite a busy 2nd half of 2026. We’re going to be around the UK & Ireland playing shows in Stoke, Leicester, Helston, Cardiff, Exeter, Bethesda, Dublin, Belfast, Plymouth, Grimsby, Hull, Liverpool, Nottingham and perhaps a couple more!
As we look into 2027, we will be looking at more mainland Europe, beginning to record our next album, and hopefully maybe some more festival appearances if all goes well…
Are you camping with the fans? Which campsite are you heading for?
We will be in artist camping. We’re looking forward to meeting everyone, getting to know the other bands and just overall having a good time.
You’ve gotta keep hydrated at Bloodstock, what is your drink of choice for the weekend?
For me personally, until we play it will be water and perhaps an energy drink! I can’t speak for the others, but from being down south, we all love a crisp cold cider!
See you at Bloodstock in a few weeks!
Can’t wait, see you soon!
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“Is Your Mind Split in Two?” — London Trio Black Doldrums Share Video for Dirgeful Single “Repetition”
“The doldrums” sounds like a dark room with no windows and no lights. You step inside, lock the door behind you, and extinguish the final seam of light beneath it. At first, the darkness appears empty; then the mind begins furnishing it with everything you hoped to leave outside. Fear searches for something concealed nearby while dread waits for it to reveal itself. Angst returns to the same unanswered question, passion strains against confinement, love becomes fixation, and anguish grows louder because there is nowhere for any of it to go.
Beyond that imagined room, the word describes a spell of listlessness or despondency, a period of stagnation, and an equatorial region of calms, squalls, and shifting winds. In its nautical sense, opposing trade winds converge near the equator, leaving sailing ships trapped on windless water. The sails collapse, the hull ceases to advance, provisions diminish, and the crew can see the horizon without drawing any closer to it. The ship and the dark room share one cruelty: an exit can be imagined while remaining unreachable.
Goth and post-punk have made lasting music from precisely these states. Fear tightens the bass into a narrow repeating figure; dread occupies the interval before the next drum hit; angst gives the lyric a question it cannot answer; passion swells through distortion; love supplies the reason to remain; anguish comes from recognizing the pattern while continuing to obey it. Black Doldrums is therefore an unusually exact name: music for the locked room and a ship adrift at sea, where the mind returns to familiar pain because familiarity can resemble shelter.
Appropriately, London trio Black Doldrums’ latest release, Repetition, centers on the inability to break a pattern. The song is the lead single and opening track of the band’s third studio album, Repetition Compulsion, due November 13th, 2026, via Fuzz Club.
The record completes Black Doldrums’ interconnected “State of Mind Trilogy,” following their 2022 debut, Dead Awake, and 2024’s In Limerence. The three albums consider the psychological forces that shape identity, memory, and human connection, with the creative and personal partnership between founding members Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers providing their emotional center.
As Gibbard explains: “The songs are either about Sophie, for Sophie, or inspired by her.”
“Repetition begins with a funereal synthesizer exhalation, a dusky bass tone, and a beat that lands with the bodily insistence of a heart awaiting bad news. A cold guitar figure enters in clipped phrases while bell-like electronics toll far back in the mix. Gibbard’s vocal melody brushes against the severe romanticism of The Sisters of Mercy’s “Marian,” while his softened, reverb-heavy timbre evokes Neil Halstead from Slowdive if he were dragged into a goth club.
With each cycle, more haze collects around the vocal until the recording seems to lose its walls. Landers becomes increasingly audible behind Gibbard, turning confession into divided speech. The bass later steps forward with the high-register gravity of Peter Hook on Joy Division’s Closer, particularly the downward pull of “Twenty Four Hours.” Its dense, overdriven attack also evokes Simon Gallup during the Cure’s Pornography-era tour, when his bass occupied the front of the mix as a blunt rhythmic force and a source of dread.
Gibbard explains the song’s origin:
“The song came from an idea to challenge ourselves to write something around one riff and something dirge-like. It also fit the theme of the album and the topic of repetition by literally experimenting with repetition in the musical sense. The opening line – “is your mind split in two” – is something taken from our conversations on our many long walks around London where Sophie was talking about the psychological term splitting. It seemed to fit the feel of the song and theme of the album so much so it now opens up both the album and our live shows. I consider it very much Sophie’s song because she was the source of inspiration and that’s why we have her backing vocals fairly prominent to create a dual vocal effect. I also had the after-thought to have Sophie mime the first line in the video which is actually her line anyway.”
The phrase “is your mind split in two” brings the album’s psychological framework down to one troubling image: a mind unable to reconcile its opposing halves. Landers’s backing vocal gives that division a second body, allowing the song to behave like a thought hearing itself repeated from elsewhere. Its central riff follows the same principle, returning with enough force that familiarity becomes confinement.
Filmed by Landers and Gibbard, with the final cut crafted by Landers, the scene begins with Landers gazing directly into the camera, silently delivering the line that sparked the song. Her high-collared white blouse, black straps, braided hair, dramatic eye makeup, and black lipstick create a striking contrast against a nearly empty black background. Gibbard appears dressed in black, with close-cropped blond hair, his face illuminated by pale blue and green lighting.
Their portraits alternate between clean digital images and footage rephotographed from a monitor. Vertical scan lines stripe Landers’s face; clipped highlights bleach her features into white and violet; soft focus, projection, and offset copies divide her image across the screen. Gibbard receives similar treatment as his head drifts in and out of the surrounding black. Close-ups of fingers working a bass guitar and a solitary illuminated snare interrupt the faces, then return according to the song’s circular logic.
The clip’s most pointed image is a small porcelain pig figurine dropping into the frame and shattering against a black floor. Landers later restores it through editing, only for the descent, impact, and dispersal of its fragments to happen again. The sequence becomes a compact illustration of repetition compulsion: an object returns intact so that the original damage can be recreated. Faces, gestures, instruments, and breakage recur with slight mutations, making repetition the video’s visual grammar as well as the song’s foundation.
Watch the video for Repetition below:
Repetition Compulsion takes its title from the Freudian concept describing “the unconscious tendency to recreate familiar emotional patterns, destructive behaviours and inherited cycles from the past.” Across eleven songs, Black Doldrums examine the ways these patterns enter relationships, memory, political life, and mental health.
“The album invites listeners to confront the echoes of the past while questioning whether those patterns can ever truly be broken,” says Gibbard.
The trio draws upon ’80s gothic post-punk, synth-pop, and darkwave, alongside the film music of John Carpenter and Vangelis. Analogue synthesizers, chorus-treated guitars, and driving rhythms give the record a cinematic scale while preserving the melodic directness established across the previous two albums.
Repetition Compulsion arrives November 13th, 2026, on 180-gram neon-yellow vinyl limited to 350 hand-numbered copies, 180-gram ultra-clear vinyl, and CD. Pre-order the album here.
Kevin Gibbard and Sophie Landers formed Black Doldrums in London as a two-piece, combining Gibbard’s guitar and vocals with Landers’s drums and vocals. Their early work drew heavily from dark psychedelia, drone, reverb, and the physical economy of playing as a duo. The addition of bass expanded Black Doldrums into a trio around the recording of Dead Awake, giving the songs a more pronounced post-punk structure.
Released through Fuzz Club in 2022, Dead Awake established their colder and more direct studio approach. Its 2024 successor, In Limerence, examined romantic fixation, loss, and the unstable interior life of a relationship. The band subsequently toured extensively across the UK and Europe, including arena dates supporting Archive and their own headlining runs. Repetition Compulsion brings the trilogy to its conclusion while extending those personal questions into inherited behaviour, politics, memory, and mental wellbeing.
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