DERMABRASION // MAGIC MISSILE (VIDEO) GET IN HER EARS, EXCLAIM, SHE MAKES MUSIC, COLORISING, CIRCUIT SWEET, BEATS PER MINUTE, CRACK MAGAZINE, KERRANG! MAGAZINE, NME
Toronto death rockers DERMABRASION share their new single, “Magic Missile,” the third track from Pain Behaviour, the band’s debut full-length coming out via Hand Drawn Dracula on January 26th. Following “Goblin Dance,” released late last year, the single offers another example of their collaboration with producer Josh Korody (Fucked Up, Breeze, Beliefs, Traitrs).
Toronto director Shelby Wilson (The Straight Ball (2022), We Need To Talk About Diseases (2022)) produced and directed the video that features a cast in handmade masks at a foreboding garage sale. While the video takes loose inspiration from the 2008 performance art piece The Price Master, the pathetic fallacy on the rainy, single-day production in May 2022 was simply fate.
Pain Behaviour chews up and spits out sonic motifs across 10 tracks that piece together a collection of influences reflecting the years both musicians have spent skulking around their city’s nightlife. The full pastiche of the band’s ersatz dogma is best demonstrated in the wicked anthem heralding the album’s halfway point, “Magic Missile.” Over a thunderous kick drum and snare hits that crack like a whip, the query curls like smoke: When the gods falter, what size are the faults?
“the wicked anthem, Magic Missile – Over a thunderous kick drum and snare hits that crack like a whip” – CIRCUIT SWEET
“Dermabrasion share new single & video ‘Magic Missile'” – SHE MAKES MUSIC
“Creators of brooding gothic anthems that rumble with discontent” – FIVE FAVOURITES / GET IN HER EARS
“a heavy sonic blow that crushes anything in its path” – COLORISING
“Evil and menacing … exciting and explosive!” – INDIE FOR BUNNIES
“a grimy gothic punk soundtrack” – EXCLAIM!
“far more pure riffage and weighty undercarriage than we ever got from the Bay Area post-hardcore/goth nexus decades back” – I DIE YOU DIE
“Dermabrasion sound like some macabre approximation of Siouxsie & the Banshees going on an acid binge with Locust Abortion Technician-era Butthole Surfers” – BEATS PER MINUTE
“The Best New Music” – CRACK MAGAZINE
“CHART: Best New Music” – KERRANG!
“NME’S NEW BANGERS” – NME
PAIN BEHAVIOUR: PRE-SAVE / BANDCAMP
See Dermabrasion live:
12th Jan – Toronto CA – The Monarch / Class of 2024 Series
