PUPIL SLICER have today shared a new single and music video, titled Momentary Actuality. Momentary Actuality is the third and final pre-release single to be taken from their forthcoming second album, Blossom, due for release on June 2 via Prosthetic Records. The music video further expands upon PUPIL SLICER‘s hard science fiction/cosmic horror rock opera storyline for Blossom, with David Gregory once again providing visual direction.

Stream Momentary Actuality via Apple Music | TIDAL | Deezer | Bandcamp and Spotify
Pre-order Blossom here.

Speaking on Momentary Actuality, PUPIL SLICER comments: “Momentary Actuality serves as the starting point for the story of Blossom and also encapsulates a musical mission statement for the album, the song encompasses a broad range of styles that are found on the rest of Blossom.

“This song really showcases our progression as musicians on a technical as well as compositional level, with a lot of care taken to craft a very satisfying structure to the over-the-top riffs and breakdowns we’ve come to be known for.”

Drawing influence from a myriad of genre classics across books, movies and videogames, PUPIL SLICER‘s primary lyricist, Kate Davies has crafted a story that conveys personal experiences via an other-worldly narrative. In the wake of a profane signal of alien origin, the album opens with the protagonist losing touch with reality beneath a starry night sky. What follows is a kaleidoscopic voyage through another plane of existence where all is not as it first seems; trapped in a loop of destruction that must be imparted upon others. The tale ultimately comes to a point with serenity achieved in the closing minutes, planting the seeds of hope for an opportunity to start anew. 

Whilst 2020’s Mirrors was lyrically a very raw, biographical album, on Blossom Davies has deftly blended between their lived experiences and the tales that unfold throughout the ten tracks on the follow up. These stories are supported by the intensely intricate and skillful rhythmic backbone provided by Josh Andrews on drums, Luke Fabian on bass and bursts of shredding leads from former live guitarist Frank Muir. Told through the prism of a fantastical fiction, the visceral delivery and cathartic energy is palpable as ever; intergalactic embellishments can’t destroy the umbilical link between what churns within and what is later spewed out. 

An intense month in the studio with producer Lewis Johns has led to a cohesive and confident sounding album that embraces ethereal singing, electronic breakdowns, and bold experimentation – without ever losing sight of their core tenets. Through darkness and despair, there is always – at the very least – a glimmer of light in all that they do. Drawing from influences as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Deafheaven, Radiohead, and Botch, PUPIL SLICER have moulded an album that is effervescent with passion but doesn’t shy away from a good hook and a catchy chorus.

Blossom track list
1. Glaring Dark of Night
2. Momentary Actuality
3. Departure in Solitude
4. Creating the Devil in Our Image
5. The Song at Creation’s End
6. No Temple
7. Terminal Lucidity
8. Language of the Stars
9. Dim Morning Light
10. Blossom

PUPIL SLICER‘s Blossom is available on multiple physical formats, including various vinyl variants and CD – CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

PUPIL SLICER is:
Kate Davies – vocals and guitar
Frank Muir – guitar
Luke Fabian – bass
Joshua Andrews – drums

PUPIL SLICER have also recently announced a number of 2023 tour and festival dates, including their first ever shows in mainland Europe with Boris.

PUPIL SLICER tour dates:
22 April – Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, NL29 April – Dudefest – Karlsruhe, DE*
30 April – Les Cuizines Chelles – Paris, FR*
2 May – Cyprus Avenue – Cork, IR*
3 May – Button Factory – Dublin, IE*
4 May – Limelight 2 – Belfast, UK*
5 May – Room 2 – Glasgow, UK*
6 May – Victoria Hall – Settle, UK*
7 May – Record Junkee – Sheffield, UK**
9 May – Colos Saal – Aschaffenburg, DE*
10 May – Trix – Antwerp, BE*
11 May – Patronaat – Haarlem, NL*
12 May – Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE*
13 May – A Colossal Weekend – Copenhagen, DK*
15 May – Bla – Oslo, NO*
16 May – Bla – Oslo, NO*
17 May – Debaser – Stockholm, SE*
18 May – The Abyss – Gothenburg, SE**
19 May – Brolandingerne – Aalborg, DK**
28 May – Portals Festival – London, UK
9 June – Download Festival – Donington Park, UK
10 June – Mystic Festival – Gdansk, PL
16-20 August – Arctangent Festival – Bristol, UK

*Heavy Rock Breakfast tour w/ Boris
**Headline shows

London, UK’s PUPIL SLICER have shared a new single and music video, titled No Temple. No Temple is the second track to be taken from the mathcore group’s upcoming sophomore album, Blossom, due for release via Prosthetic Records on June 2. The music video, directed by David Gregory, furthers PUPIL SLICER‘s conceptual world of sci-fi and cosmic horror.

Stream No Temple via Apple Music | TIDAL | Deezer | Bandcamp and Spotify
Pre-order Blossom here.

Speaking on the new single and video, Kate Davies (vocals / guitar) comments: “Blossom is a story that encapsulates a wide gamut of intense emotions and a rollercoaster of events over the 47 minute runtime. Likewise, the musical elements are also equally diverse whilst maintaining a cohesion to what’s going on at that point in the album. 

“The feedback we received for our first single has been overwhelmingly positive but let’s face it – not what a lot of people were expecting from a band named “PUPIL SLICER”.

“Here is a sample from the opposite end of the musical range that Blossom encapsulates –  No Temple is the heaviest song we’ve ever written.”

Drawing influence from a myriad of genre classics across books, movies and videogames, PUPIL SLICER‘s primary lyricist, Kate Davies has crafted a story that conveys personal experiences via an other-worldly narrative. In the wake of a profane signal of alien origin, the album opens with the protagonist losing touch with reality beneath a starry night sky. What follows is a kaleidoscopic voyage through another plane of existence where all is not as it first seems; trapped in a loop of destruction that must be imparted upon others. The tale ultimately comes to a point with serenity achieved in the closing minutes, planting the seeds of hope for an opportunity to start anew. 

Whilst 2020’s Mirrors was lyrically a very raw, biographical album, on Blossom Davies has deftly blended between their lived experiences and the tales that unfold throughout the ten tracks on the follow up. These stories are supported by the intensely intricate and skillful rhythmic backbone provided by Josh Andrews on drums, Luke Fabian on bass and bursts of shredding leads from former live guitarist Frank Muir. Told through the prism of a fantastical fiction, the visceral delivery and cathartic energy is palpable as ever; intergalactic embellishments can’t destroy the umbilical link between what churns within and what is later spewed out. 

An intense month in the studio with producer Lewis Johns has led to a cohesive and confident sounding album that embraces ethereal singing, electronic breakdowns, and bold experimentation – without ever losing sight of their core tenets. Through darkness and despair, there is always – at the very least – a glimmer of light in all that they do. Drawing from influences as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Deafheaven, Radiohead, and Botch, PUPIL SLICER have moulded an album that is effervescent with passion but doesn’t shy away from a good hook and a catchy chorus.

Blossom track list
1. Glaring Dark of Night
2. Momentary Actuality
3. Departure in Solitude
4. Creating the Devil in Our Image
5. The Song at Creation’s End
6. No Temple
7. Terminal Lucidity
8. Language of the Stars
9. Dim Morning Light
10. Blossom

PUPIL SLICER is:
Kate Davies – vocals and guitar
Frank Muir – guitar
Luke Fabian – bass
Joshua Andrews – drums

PUPIL SLICER have also recently announced a number of 2023 tour and festival dates, including their first ever shows in mainland Europe with Boris.

PUPIL SLICER tour dates:
22 April – Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, NL
29 April – Dudefest – Karlsruhe, DE*
30 April – Les Cuizines Chelles – Paris, FR*
2 May – Cyprus Avenue – Cork, IR*
3 May – Button Factory – Dublin, IE*
4 May – Limelight 2 – Belfast, UK*
5 May – Room 2 – Glasgow, UK*
6 May – Victoria Hall – Settle, UK*
7 May – Record Junkee – Sheffield, UK**
9 May – Colos Saal – Aschaffenburg, DE*
10 May – Trix – Antwerp, BE*
11 May – Patronaat – Haarlem, NL*
12 May – Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE*
13 May – A Colossal Weekend – Copenhagen, DK*
15 May – Bla – Oslo, NO*
16 May – Bla – Oslo, NO*
17 May – Debaser – Stockholm, SE*
18 May – The Abyss – Gothenburg, SE**
19 May – Brolandingerne – Aalborg, DK**
28 May – Portals Festival – London, UK
9 June – Download Festival – Donington Park, UK
10 June – Mystic Festival – Gdansk, PL
16-20 August – Arctangent Festival – Bristol, UK

*Heavy Rock Breakfast tour w/ Boris
**Headline shows

PUPIL SLICER have today announced their upcoming sophomore album, titled Blossom, due to be released via Prosthetic Records on June 2. Alongside the album announcement, the London, UK band have shared the title track with an accompanying music video directed by David Gregory. The futuristic visual serves as an introduction to Blossom’s conceptual world of sci-fi and cosmic horror, with central themes of abject despair, reincarnation and a fascination of hell.

Stream Blossom via Apple Music | TIDAL | Deezer | Bandcamp and Spotify
Pre-order Blossom here.

Speaking on the album announcement and single release, Kate Davies (vocals / guitar) comments: “Blossom is the culmination of two years spent with razor focus on crafting a journey like no other. We are incredibly proud of the feats we have achieved on our sophomore album, building upon the experience and feedback from our debut to further break down the walls between metal, hardcore, shoegaze, electronic music and pop.

“We have delivered the most concentrated PUPIL SLICER experience yet. A hard sci-fi/cosmic horror concept album, the story told across Blossom draws on some of our favourite media to craft these 10 tracks where instrumental, lyrical and visual elements have been cohesively refined to serve the world we’ve created.

“We are introducing the world of Blossom via the title track, the final point beyond time and space, a nexus of everything that could have been and a vantage point into everything that came before.”

Drawing influence from a myriad of genre classics across books, movies and videogames, PUPIL SLICER‘s primary lyricist, Kate Davies has crafted a story that conveys personal experiences via an other-worldly narrative. In the wake of a profane signal of alien origin, the album opens with the protagonist losing touch with reality beneath a starry night sky. What follows is a kaleidoscopic voyage through another plane of existence where all is not as it first seems; trapped in a loop of destruction that must be imparted upon others. The tale ultimately comes to a point with serenity achieved in the closing minutes, planting the seeds of hope for an opportunity to start anew. 

Whilst 2020’s Mirrors was lyrically a very raw, biographical album, on Blossom Davies has deftly blended between their lived experiences and the tales that unfold throughout the ten tracks on the follow up. These stories are supported by the intensely intricate and skillful rhythmic backbone provided by Josh Andrews on drums, Luke Fabian on bass and bursts of shredding leads from former live guitarist Frank Muir. Told through the prism of a fantastical fiction, the visceral delivery and cathartic energy is palpable as ever; intergalactic embellishments can’t destroy the umbilical link between what churns within and what is later spewed out. 

An intense month in the studio with producer Lewis Johns has led to a cohesive and confident sounding album that embraces ethereal singing, electronic breakdowns, and bold experimentation – without ever losing sight of their core tenets. Through darkness and despair, there is always – at the very least – a glimmer of light in all that they do. Drawing from influences as diverse as Nine Inch Nails, Deafheaven, Radiohead, and Botch, PUPIL SLICER have moulded an album that is effervescent with passion but doesn’t shy away from a good hook and a catchy chorus.

Blossom track list
1. Glaring Dark of Night
2. Momentary Actuality
3. Departure in Solitude
4. Creating the Devil in Our Image
5. The Song at Creation’s End
6. No Temple
7. Terminal Lucidity
8. Language of the Stars
9. Dim Morning Light
10. Blossom

PUPIL SLICER is:
Kate Davies – vocals and guitar
Frank Muir – guitar
Luke Fabian – bass
Joshua Andrews – drums

PUPIL SLICER‘s Blossom is available on multiple physical formats, including various vinyl variants and CD – CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

PUPIL SLICER have also recently announced a number of 2023 tour and festival dates, including their first ever shows in mainland Europe with Boris.

PUPIL SLICER tour dates:
22 April – Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, NL29 April – Dudefest – Karlsruhe, DE*
30 April – Les Cuizines Chelles – Paris, FR*
2 May – Cyprus Avenue – Cork, IR*
3 May – Button Factory – Dublin, IE*
4 May – Limelight 2 – Belfast, UK*
5 May – Room 2 – Glasgow, UK*
6 May – Victoria Hall – Settle, UK*
7 May – Desertfest – London, UK*
9 May – Colos Saal – Aschaffenburg, DE*
10 May – Trix – Antwerp, BE*
11 May – Patronaat – Haarlem, NL*
12 May – Hafenklang – Hamburg, DE*
13 May – A Colossal Weekend – Denmark, DK*
15 May – Bla – Oslo, NO*
16 May – Bla – Oslo, NO*
17 May – Debaser – Stockholm, SE*

28 May – Portals Festival – London, UK
9 June – Download Festival – Donington Park, UK
10 June – Mystic Festival – Gdansk, PL
17-20 August – Arctangent Festival – Bristol, UK

*Heavy Rock Breakfast tour w/ Boris

PUPIL SLICER have shared a music video for new single, Thermal Runaway, via Kerrang! The track – which features Cara Drolshagen from The Armed on guest vocals – premiered via the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show this past Sunday. Thermal Runaway will be released as a digital single this Thursday, February 3  – ahead of PUPIL SLICER‘s first live show in over two years. The digital single also features remixes of Wounds Upon My Skin – a track from debut album, Mirrors – by Nadja, and Marble Girl.

PUPIL SLICER‘s debut album, Mirrors, is out now.

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THERMAL RUNAWAY VIA KERRANG!

Of the track, vocalist/guitarist Katie comments: 
“The idea behind the track was to capture the experience of being in a catastrophising cycle of anxiety and depression that keeps getting worse no matter what you do, through metaphors of thermal runaway that occurs in stars which leads to supernovas.”

Of Cara’s contributions they continue: 
“We are huge fans of The Armed and really love Cara’s vocal work with them. I wrote the track with Cara in mind and approached her with the title and some general themes already established. She took the ball from there and laid down her vocal parts which established the fantastic core lyrical drive on the chorus which I then expanded.”

Cara adds: “It’s pretty incredible what you can do creatively now even being miles apart. We had such a great time collaborating on this song. Pupil Slicer were amazing to work with and really gave me the chance to mould my style with theirs in a really unique way.”

Thermal Runaway track list

1. Thermal Runaway feat. Cara Drolshagen
2. Wounds Upon My Skin (Nadja Remix)
3. Wounds Upon My Skin (Marble Girl Remix)

Timed to coincide with their first live shows since 2019, Thermal Runaway retains the hallmarks of Mirrors’ grinding mathcore, but gives a clear indicator of the direction that PUPIL SLICER are moving towards. With writing well underway for their sophomore album, Thermal Runaway stood out as track that warranted immediate attention. PUPIL SLICER enlisted the talents of producer Lewis Johns (Employed To Serve, Blanket, Svalbard) at The Ranch studio in Southampton, The track features guitarist Frank Muir, who will also be joining the band on their upcoming live dates.

LIVE SHOWS:
6 February – Record Junkee – Sheffield (Independent venue week)

UK tour w/ Rolo Tomassi
16 February – The Loft – Southampton
17 February – Mama Roux – Birmingham
21 February – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham, UK
22 February – Club Academy – Manchester, UK
23 February – Fleece – Bristol, UK
24 February – Oval Space – London, UK

3 April – Classic Grand – Glasgow, UK (w/ GODFLESH)
23 – 24 April – StrangeForms Festival – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, UK
2 June – Underwerket – Copenhagen, DK
3 June – ILTER Festival – Odense, DK
30 June – UK Tech Fest – Newark, UK
11 – 14 August – Bloodstock – UK
19 August – ArcTanGent – Bristol, UK
3 September – Burn It Down Fest – Torquay

PUPIL SLICER have shared a new music video for their track,Collective Unconscious, which premiered yesterday evening via Knotfest. The six and a half minute missive is taken from the band’s debut full length, Mirrors, released in March of this year via Prosthetic Records. Collective Unconscious is available as a digital single featuring live versions of Mirrors Are More Fun Than Television and a cover of Converge’s Concubine as b-sides. The highly stylized visual, produced by Cineoteric Films, depicts the band performing within a theatre alongside choreographed dance and performance by Liam Hill – tying together Collective Unconscious‘ lyrical narrative.

PUPIL SLICER recently announced February 2022 European and UK tour dates, in support of Rolo Tomassi.

PUPIL SLICER‘s debut album, Mirrors, is out now.

WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO FOR COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS BELOW

Listen to Collective Unconscious via Spotify | Apple Music | Tidal | Deezer

Speaking on the song, Kate Davies (vocals / guitar) comments: “The song is about coming to terms with being trans and the amount of vitriol and unconscious bias in society around it, as well as my own internalised transphobia. Basically, after realising I was trans there wasn’t any way to un-learn that fact, so there was only one option: going forward despite knowing how hard things could be.

The idea of the majority of society being conditioned from birth to laugh at and dismiss everything about trans people, and there being no willingness to learn about struggles or to try to help. The way most media paints trans people is as sexual predators, just plain delusional or a threat to everyone around them. A way of coping became dissociation; disconnecting from what people say and how you feel, so that the negativity can’t affect you as much, distancing yourself from your own feelings as much as you can so that you don’t feel anything either way.”

Collective Unconscious tracklist:

1. Collective Unconscious
2. Mirrors Are More Fun Than Television (live)
3. Concubine (Converge) (live)

PUPIL SLICER‘s Mirrors captures the frenetic energy that propels the band forward, making their snarling blend of mathcore, grindcore, death metal and more a truly essential listen. Garnering critical praise upon release, Mirrors debuted on the US Billboard Charts in March of this year and the band have since performed exclusive sets for both Knotfest and Mathcore Index – ahead of a planned 13 date European and UK tour alongside Rolo Tomassi in early 2022.

Praise for Mirrors:

“There’s a raft of exciting and innovative bands coming from the UK right now. PUPIL SLICER are on par with all of them.” – Metal Hammer UK

“Davies is such a consistently commanding presence that Mirrors is vastly more immersive and absorbing than any record this fast, furious and fucked up has any right to be.” – Blabbermouth

“Overall, Mirrors is nothing short of incredible. It’s up there with the likes of Vein, End and Fawn Limbs as one of the best and most visceral debuts of recent years.” – Distorted Sound

“PUPIL SLICER’s debut album is a panic-stricken purging of mental anguish, carried out by a blast of cacophonous instrumentation. So in other words, this album rules.” – New Noise 

Upcoming PUPIL SLICER tour dates:

6 February – Record Junkee – Sheffield, UK

2022: European tour w/ Rolo Tomassi
10 February – Trix – Antwerp, Belgium
11 February – Péniche Antipode – Paris, France
12 February – Complexity Fest – Haarlem, Netherlands
14 February – Cassiopeia – Berlin, Germany
15 February – Strahov 007 – Prague, Czech Republic
16 February – A38 – Budapest, Hungary
17 February – Arena – Vienna, Austria
18 February – Feierwerk – Munich, Germany
19 February – MTC – Cologne, Germany
21 February – Rescue Rooms – Nottingham, UK
22 February – Club Academy – Manchester, UK
23 February – Fleece – Bristol, UK
24 February – Oval Space – London, UK

23 – 24 April – StrangeForms Festival  – Brudenell Social Club – Leeds, UK