Oklahoma industrial metal outfit Black Magnet didn’t originate in the Rust Belt, but their sound harkens back to the genre’s Chicago roots. On new single, “Night Tripping,” you get the perfect electronic/metallic mash-up, complete with mechanical percussion, distorted vocals and robotic tribal rhythms, a la Ministry or another iconic Rust Belt act, Nine Inch Nails. The quartet—James Hammontree (vocals/guitar), Ryne Bratcher (guitar), Jared Branson (bass), Noah Taylor (drums)—jackhammer through the two-minute-plus track, taken from their upcoming Megamantra full-length, with cold precision.
Megamantra was recorded and mixed at Earth Analogue Studio by Sanford Parker. It was mastered by Vlado Meller. It’s set for release on vinyl and digitally on July 25 via Federal Prisoner Records (co-founded by Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato). Place your preorder here or here. And don’t forget to check out Black Magnet’s string of September live dates listed below the visualizer.
Guitarist/vocalist James Hammontree had this to say about the new track:
“‘Night Tripping’ is a psychic transmission, a struggle with the unraveling of time. It’s a psychological burial by poisoned memory and future expectation. In certain states of mind, I view reality through trauma—what I call my ‘shadow life.’ Dreams become artificial constructs; the self overtaken by parasitic thought. There’s desperation in reaching outward when the inner world is fracturing.”
Black Magnet live:
9/02/2025 Rubber Gloves – Denton, TX w/ Wargasm
9/18/2025 Hi-Tone – Memphis, TN w/ fallfiftyfeet
9/19/2025 Firehouse – Birmingham, AL
9/20/2025 Heavy Hell Festival @ Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN w/ Six Feet Under, Master, Thou
9/21/2025 Farewell – Kansas City, MO
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