“Burn the tapes. Shatter the control images. Smash the control machine.” ― William S. Burroughs, Electronic Revolution
Hostile Surgery’s new album STRAY VOLTS is an atmospheric sonic exploration through flickering signals and rogue electricity, where sound escapes its circuits and arcs unpredictably between noise and melody. The album occupies an unstable space - neither fully physical, nor purely imagined. Humming in the interference between machines, and minds, between noise, and melody, where overloaded wires, and half-caught transmissions, becomes its own fractured geography.
The tracks mirror a world fraying at the edges—social tension, liminal places, digital overload, occult conflicts, the static of broken communication—and converts chaos into abstraction. Rhythms destabilize, melodies dissolve into distortion, and signals bleed into one another, creating a post-industrial electro-punk beast of sounds surging into chaotic crescendos before collapsing into eerie, low-voltage drones. By the final track, the current dissipates into charged ambience—a ghost of resonance lingering after the power drains.
This is the sound of the grid failing—where from the wreckage rises not silence, but something raging."
From a music point of view, Stray Volts will transport the listener into a journey of Drone, Industrial, Rhythmic Noise, Techno, Dark Ambient, and Noise.
For each track:
1. DEAD ANGLE = “The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves.” ― Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira
2. WHISPERING ROOMS = “The darkness can consume you, but only if you let it.” ― Dean Koontz, The Whispering Room
3. NIGHT DOGS = “I don’t know where I’m going, like a kite without a string.” ― Shinya Tsukamoto, Bullet Ballet
4. DAYS OF WILD IRON = “The nightmares of the technological world lay waiting for us.” ― J.G. Ballard, Crash
5. TUMBLING PLUSH OF WAD = “You're doing a great job! I had to change my underwear! .” ― Stephen Biro, American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
6. LOST GENESIS = “Laugh all you want, but what has been called microbes is God.” ― Antonin Artaud, To Have Done with the Judgment of God
7. BUBBLEGUM ECSTASY = “I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubble gum.” ― John Carpenter, They Live
8. BIM BANG BOOM = “Witches escape to the forest to listen to the whispers of nature itself...” ― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
9. NO HOPE NO FEAR = “As I came through the desert: All was black” ― James Thomson (Bysshe Vanolis), The City of Dreadful Night
M.A.D.014.A
Written + Produced = Hostile Surgery
