[Cover photo credit to Pierre Gondard]

Kill The Thrill are a French Metal band who have stayed enigmatic. Despite a few lineup changes over the years, long-standing members Marylin Tognolli & Nicolas Dick have been penning Post-Punk lyrics over industrialized New Wave landscapes ever since the band’s genesis in 1989.  

Now, Kill the Thrill are back with their fifth album, Autophagie set to arrive on January 24th, 2024 from Season of Mist. The title track and accompanying video are out now. The video “splices together scraps of near-apocalyptic images into a surreal fever dream” in the vein of David Lynch.

Kill the Thrill says of the track and video:

We had this thread of autophagy running through the album, the principle of which is to enable adaptation and survival, because this cannibalistic process is triggered in conditions of stress or impoverishment. It’s at the point of metamorphosis, of regeneration, and it’s an unavoidable evil if there’s to be a revival. The images in the clip resonate with autophagy through the prism of a violent distortion of the things transmitted, but also of our own strangeness, and of us humans, who contemplate them fascinated, imagining ourselves to be in control of everything, until we forget where we came from.

The clip is conceived as a ghostly journey, a tale in 2 parts, a visual trance that plunges us into the heart of darkness with a strong sense of hyper-acceleration in time. The flashes of white and areas of grey provide clues, and conjure up powerful images of life on earth. A civilization that has taken care of its space by forging artisanal tools, but whose desire to delimit and control everything, and its need to consume more and more, has transformed this artisanal knowledge into an instrument of mass degradation.