Industrial band Panic Lift have completed their five EP release cycle with the new release, “Again”. “Again” features the lead single “What Happens Now?” and is accompanied by the downtempo “Timelines” along with two remixes from E.S.A. and Absynthe Of Faith.

For “What Happens Now?” Panic Lift lead singer, James Francis addresses the anxiety of watching the world around us in turmoil and the long-term effects it has on the human psyche. “In the 80’s we had the Cold War, in 90s we had Iraq, then September 11th, and now we’ve had COVID-19. I feel like each generation has been constantly on edge due to the world being in a constant state of upheaval, and it’s hard to ever imagine a time where we could be optimistic about the future.”

With the release of “Again” they complete the entire 21 song release cycle by unleashing the double CD titled “Split Pieces Stitched Together Again”. This album compiles all 21 songs into a long play album format. The CD is limited to 100 copies worldwide and can be ordered below.

Again is available on all major digital outlets including Bandcamp.

Here’s the video for “What Happens Now?”.

Panic Lift was formed in 2006 and has released music and toured consistently for almost two decades. Panic Lift has issued four full-length albums on Metropolis Records, and countless EPs, remixes, and collaborations. James Francis is accompanied by his longtime live band which consists of Dan Platt (keyboards), and Ben Tourkantonis and Cristian Carver both on drums.

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Industrial band Panic Lift has just launched its first release of 2022 titled “Stitched”. This four song EP features two new songs titled “Every Broken Piece” and “Bitter Cold” with remixes from Mechanical Vein and Tragic Impulse.

For “Stitched”, the band went back to their first album and EBM roots. James Francis explains: “I’ve always tried to find a happy medium between what I’m doing now, and where I started, but now that I’m doing smaller releases, I have the ability to experiment with different styles without having to worry much about how they fit with the rest of my catalog.”

Here’s the video for “Every Broken Piece”.

Here’s the full EP to check out.

Panic Lift began in 2006 and has released music and toured consistently for the last 15 years. The band has released 4 full length albums on Metropolis Records, and countless EPs, remixes, and collaborations. James Francis is accompanied by his longtime live band which consists of Dan Platt (keyboards), Ben Tourkantonis (drums), Cristian Carver (drums) and Kenzi Burke (bass).

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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Out now is “Split”,the first in five thematically connected EPs by Newark, New Jersey based industrial act Panic Lift. The release cycle will span into 2022. “Split” is the follow-up to 2018’s “End Process”. On “Split” Panic Lift presents two new songs, “Tribute” and “Nowhere Fast”, plus 2 remixes respectively by Grendel and Wesenberg (Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg from Rotersand).

Each EP in the five-part series will feature two original tracks and two remixes from different artists.

Each new release will be accompanied by a limited-edition physical product, which will change with each release. “Split” is released as a limited-edition physical cassette tape limited to 50 copies worldwide.

Panic Lift is James Francis, Dan Platt, Ben Tourkantonis and Cristian Carver. For this string of EP releases, the band works with longtime friends and collaborators Primordial Music.

Check the video for “Tribute”.

You can download/stream the first EP right below on Bandcamp.

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Peter Turns Pirate (aka Neal Reed from Grendel) has released a brand new music video: “Jaw Drop”. It’s the 3rd music video for the project from Toronto (Canada) and the track itself is taken from his latest EP “View as strange”.

This video focuses entirely on the hard-hitiing drums of the track and features some of the electro scene’s most respected drummers: Galen Waling (Lords of acid, Julien K, PIG), Cristian Carver (Bella Morte, Panic Lift, Man1k1n) and Ben Tourkantonis (Grendel, Panic Lift).

You can watch the video right here.

Peter Turns Pirate was formed in 2004. In 2015 the project opened The AfterMath Festival in Toronto, and in 2016 Peter Turns Pirate supported PIG and En Esch on their 5 week North American Tour.

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Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover, hard-pop.

Background/Info: Ten years after the debut full length “Dancing Through The Ashes” Panic Lift has released its fourth album to date. This American formation is driven by James Francis and Dan Platt plus Ben Tourkantonis on drums.

Content: Panic Lift has always been difficult to categorize and that’s again the main characteristic of this new opus. “Skeleton Key” for sure is a dark inspired piece of work, but you can’t really define the music genre of this band. The composition remains inspired by a kind of electro-rock & industrial format driven by furious vocals. It sometimes moves on the edge of metal music, but a few songs later you will notice a rather hard-pop influence touch.

This is a versatile work, which even experiments with some ballad-minded songs and even reverie passages. There’s a constant duality between the influences and that’s for sure the trademark of Panic Lift.

+ + + : The mix between all the different influences remains the main strength of Panic Lift, but also the elements making this new album different from other releases. Panic Lift is not cliché, but just a band with a unique dark sound. I especially like the kind of dark-pop inspired “Finally What You Wanted”, which is a well-crafted and elaborated composition. Another attention grabber is “The Path”, which sounds harder and more electro-wise.

– – – : The main strength of the album also remains –and that’s often true, the real point that hurts. Mixing multiple influences is a rather creative process, but I get the impression some cuts aren’t that in harmony with each other. There’s a strong duality running through this work, which can’t fully convince me.

Conclusion: Panic Lift sounds like a sonic alien lost in an underground music universe, which is too often repeating itself. It however is not my favorite album from the band.

Best songs: “Finally What You Wanted”, “The Path”, “Paper Mask”.

Rate: (6).

Band: www.paniclift.net / www.facebook.com/paniclift

Label: www.metropolis–records.com / www.facebook.com/MetropolisRecords

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