First Aid 4 Souls release 25-track album ‘Totems In A Field Of Pain’
Hungarian electro-industrial act First Aid 4 Souls release the 25-track album “Totems In A Field Of Pain” through Alfa Matrix, out 26 June 2026.
Hungarian electro-industrial act First Aid 4 Souls have released the 25-track album “Totems In A Field Of Pain”, issued digitally through Alfa Matrix on 26 June 2026. Project mastermind István Gazdag steers the record back toward the harsh electro-industrial sound of the project’s early years, pulling together two decades of material with new 2026 compositions.
What First Aid 4 Souls gather on ‘Totems In A Field Of Pain’
The album runs to 25 tracks of corrosive electronics, militant rhythms and mechanical atmospheres, mixing brand-new pieces with older material rebuilt, remixed or remastered into harder forms. US-based vocalist Mortum, of Human Vault, returns across several tracks, including “Pre-Rendered Biological Evolution”, “Binary Defect”, “King Of Filth” and “The Fate Of The Tormentor”. The record also gathers a long list of collaborators from the industrial underground: Impurfekt, Stahlgeist, United Gods, K.I.F.O.T.H., Tor Marrock, V.E.N. and Svoid.
The release lands seven months after First Aid 4 Souls moved in a different direction on the post-punk and darkwave album “Progenitrix”, issued in December 2025 with a run of female guest singers. “Totems In A Field Of Pain” turns back to the project’s aggressive electro-industrial core.
About First Aid 4 Souls
First Aid 4 Souls is the electro-industrial project of Hungarian musician István Gazdag, who has worked in the electronic and industrial scene since the late 1980s. He formed the project in 2007 as a continuation of his earlier industrial and EBM band Vacuum, writing all of its music while bringing in a rotating cast of guest vocalists, which has led some to describe it as an international supergroup.
The project signed to the Belgian label Alfa Matrix in 2019 for the dark EBM album “Keep This World Empty”, which introduced its collaboration with US vocalist Mortum. Gazdag has also produced remixes for acts including Coil and Soft Cell. After the darkwave turn of “Progenitrix” in late 2025, “Totems In A Field Of Pain” returns the project to the corrosive electro-industrial sound it built over its earlier releases.
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