Warm Exit new album ‘Ultra Violence’ is out

The DIY ethics of the punk underground scene serve as the uniting force that brings the bands various influences together, while still continuously searching for elements to broaden the texture and colour of Warm Exit’s music.

Ultra Violence is the debut album of Warm Exit, a post punk outfit from Brussels, Belgium. Now home to the EXAG’ Records Family, the band has been a driving force in its underground scene for 4 years. With only its founding member remaining, Valentino Sacchi, the band has gone through numerous mutations over the years. The last year has not only been the most consistent in its line up, but its sound as well, landing in the territory of post punk as the bands natural habitat. The conflicting egos, the harsh conditions of becoming a working musician in an otherwise overlooked city combined with the slow doom of reality, it is only natural that these insecurities lay the foundation for the bands industrial and aggressive sound.

The age of the rock star is over, and yet said ethos is still carried onward in the millions of bands that exist today. Such delusion is harder to maintain with age, and what’s left is to face the brutal honesty of what holds a band together. It isn’t financial success, fame, or the abundance of vices, it is the exercise of expression. Said brutal honesty shaped Warm Exit’s music, expressing what’s ugly, what’s aggressive, emotions that are either suppressed or ignored, feelings the members have learnt to confront in the arduous journey of relentless gigging.

The DIY ethics of the punk underground scene serve as the uniting force that brings the bands various influences together, while still continuously searching for elements to broaden the texture and colour of Warm Exit’s music. The album “Ultra Violence”, a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange”, marks a turning point in the band's career; a vow to be confrontational to yourself, a rejection to being hesitant about one's inner turmoil, and to celebrate it. The music, and more importantly the band is driven by a tireless motivation that sources its energy from within; the good, the bad, the ugly. In short, it’s human. Warts and all.

Tracklisting

01. Damages Become A Necessity
02. Concrete Fascination
03. Become The Butcher
04. Positive Anxiety
05. TV
06. Auto Destruction
07. Ultra Violence
08. Extraordinary Murders

Credits

Produced by Mathieu Versini at Nini's Studio, Brussels
Lyrics by Martin Dubessay, Max Poelmann and Valentino Sacchi.
Composed by Martin Dubessay, Max Poelmann and Valentino Sacchi
Arrangements by Martin Dubessay, Max Poelmann, Joris Vanschoren and Valentino Sacchi
Mastered by Daniel Husayn at North London Bomb Factory Mastering
Paint Art by David Mercier

The name “Ultra Violence” refer to Stanley Kubrick's movie "A Clockwork Orange" and mostly to the dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. That said, this wasn't the starting point for writing the album, but it certainly set the general tone. The eponymous track is in fact the first song that we really wrote as a band, and it marked a turning point in our creative process. From then on we started working on our sound, in a more textural way, incorporating industrial elements, electronic sounds and dissonance. In short, noise, but still with a desire to write songs with striking melodies. That's why some of the tracks took months to take shape. Damages Become A Necessity is an assemblage of three different compositions that had been rewritten several times. This track must have taken 10 different forms before we were satisfied with it. That song alone best represents our music. There's punk, more electronic influences, variations of time signatures at times, a very constructed and evolving aspect, all the while maintaining a percussive and frontal edge. I think above all we try to keep a live energy in our compositions. Before going into the studio, we spent a year alternating between touring and composition sessions. You can probably feel that in the overall energy of the album, especially on tracks like Become The Butcher and Extraordinary Murders, which are really tailor-made for live performances. Positive Anxiety is a bit apart, with its ultra-industrial rhythm and probably the most brooding ambience on the album, but it allows us to take a breath, especially live. This record is a distillation of all our musical influences, two years of sound researches, many concerts and almost as much arguments in the tour van. All of it driven by the DIY approach of the punk underground scene and above all, a deep common love for music, sonic experimentations, and of course, pool tables.
- WARM EXIT