THEY LIVE

They will make you laugh, yet tremble with fear. They will make you feel that the world has come to an end. They will make you question your own sanity. They will make you thirst for blood, for the taste of fleshžor at the very least, get you to dance your ass off like a motherfucker„ šThey› are Evil Nine, who are back from the dead with the release of their much-anticipated new album, They Live!, due out in late September on Marine Parade. They Live! features pounding tracks that will work in any club, but filtered through unexpected influences spanning ˜80s cock rock, The Cure, early Prince, krautrockers Cluster, Can and Tangerine Dream, vintage noise punkers Suicide and Black Flag, and newer sonic saboteurs TV On The Radio and Queens of the Stone Age. As such, šBehemoth› welds Timbaland rhythms to Black Sabbath heaviness; šFeed On You› comes out somewhere between Beverly Hills Cop and a phantom death march; šDead Man Coming› loops soundtrack composer/Goblin member Fabio Frizzi™s theme from Zombie Flesh Eaters with ragga rudeness courtesy Toastie Taylor of U.K. rap crew New Flesh; šThe Wait,› meanwhile, incorporates the experiments of Paul Lansky, the early synth pioneer whom Radiohead sampled on šIdioteque.› šHe™s a mad Princeton professor who experiments with strange noises,› Beaufoy explains. šWe™re obsessed,› Pardy says. šWe can usually find something positive and inspiring about most of the music out there, we then fuck it up and twist it into our own thing.› Equally individual will be Evil Nine™s kinetic new live show: it features Pardy and Beaufoy singing and playing dueling bass guitars, synthesizers and samples onstage, along with an actual human drummer and a fittingly spooky visual phantasmagoria. šWe want people to come to the shows dressed as zombies to add a Rocky Horror Picture Show element,› Pardy says. šWe may even give away fake blood. We need all the help we can getžafter all, we™re just two zombies versus the world!› Press for debut album ˜You Can Be Special Too™ šJust killer tracks,› VICE; šAssertive, chunky, majestic,› The Independent; šThe Beastie Boys would be proud,› Q; šBest album I™ve heard in a long time,› Pete Tong; šAwesome,› Zane Lowe; šAlbum of the year by the hottest producers,› Eddie Temple Morris 1 Feed on you 2 The Wait Ft. David Autokratz 3 All the Cash Ft. El-P 4 They Live! 5 Ngempa Guzom 6 How Do We Stop the Normals? 7 Dead Man Coming Ft. Toastie Taylor 8 Set It Off Ft. Beans (Anti-Pop Consortium) 9 Behemoth 10 Born Again 11 Twist the Knife Ft. Emily Breeze 12 Luke Goss 13 Icicles Ft. Seraphim