LA-based music collective Beauty in Chaos will be releasing their fourth album Dancing With Angels on July 24, 2024. They enter into the Darkwave realm with the single and music video for “Holy Ground“. The song features the vocals of Patrik Mata of Darkwave band Kommunity FK, and marks a departure from BIC’s signature Goth Rock / Postpunk sound.
Formed in 2018 by guitarist Michael Ciravolo (formerly of Human Drama and Gene Loves Jezebel and currently President of Schecter Guitars) with Grammy nominated producer Michael Rozon (Ministry), Beauty in Chaos is a “revolving evolving sonic entity.”
To date, BIC has involved artists from The Cure, Ministry, Cheap Trick, The Offspring, Gene Loves Jezebel, Marilyn Manson, Human Drama, Bauhaus, Nine Inch Nails, Van Halen, A Flock of Seagulls, dUg Pinnick (Kings X), ICE-T, Zakk Wylde, and Rolan Bolan, among others.
Michael Ciravolo comments:
I love swinging the pendulum as far opposite as possible from our previous video. I think “Holy Ground” faithfully captures the sights and sounds of the great mid ‘80s darkwave scene that revolved around Los Angeles’ famed Scream club. This was such a great time in music. This is when I actually first met Patrik, as we shared several bills with them when I was a member of Human Drama.
As for the story behind On ‘Holy Ground’, Patrik Mata shares:
A Watcher, a Supernatural Being, descends upon the planet below. He became transfixed, curious, & seduced by the women & Earthly pleasures & mysteries found. Ever since The Beginning this Being roamed the Earth creating Nephilim. What seems like an Eternity, The Being becomes a Fallen Angel, jaded, decadent, & tired having used & having been through every Earthling on the planet. The Fallen Angel shares its interpretation ov how this planet used to be considered Holy Ground, but now it is not. The only thing that The Fallen Angel yearns for is to return back Home. Back to The Gate.
Their upcoming album features BIC alumni Ashton Nyte, Holy Wars‘ Kat Leon, and both Wayne and Cinthya Hussey. Leo Luganskiy (Strangelove), Julian Shah-Tayler (The Singularity), former Silence In The Snow frontwoman Cynthia Isabella, The Bellwether Syndicate’s William and Sarah Faith, and Patrik Mata (Kommunity FK) also bring their talents to Dancing With Angels.
Ciravolo describes this album as sort of a “sonic regression and a sonic progression”, noting:
I meant this as a positive thing, taking some of the post-rock elements of our debut album, the stark dark bits that run through‘The Storm Before The Calm’ and the gothy dreamy-gaze of ‘Behind The Veil’. It was definitely going a bit backwards to take a few steps forward!
