TORSO release debut single Precious Blood
October 31, 2022
From the label who brought you the horror-fueled metal of Video Nasties and Possessor, APF Records is delighted to introduce you to TORSO. TORSO's debut album is released on 27th January 2023. Debut single Precious Blood arrived on Halloween 2022, with Kerrang! premiering the video by Jack Burley. FFO: Ministry, Nirvana, Melvins, Torche, Zombi, John Carpenter, Big Black, Kvelertak, Mastodon, Zozobra, Godflesh.
Watch the Precious Blood video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJGUiWp3AyE
A message from TORSO:
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…so here’s a little Halloween treat for all you riff loving, horror nuts… Precious Blood! Produced by mastermind Wayne Adam’s of Petbrick fame, this is the first single to be taken from the upcoming debut album “A Crash Course In Terror” and here we have a deliriously apt short film to accompany it. Filmed, directed and edited by the always awesome Jack Burley, and starring the captivating scream Queen Paisley. Hail the horror. Hail the nightmare. Hail Halloween. Hail TORSO. It’s time for a crash course in terror. Dig in and get bloody!”
About TORSO:
Like the Terminator rising from the flames comes a new meaner, leaner beast from the brainchild of UK horror metal legends POSSESSOR! Less than a year since that band’s demise, frontman and axe wielder Graham Bywater returns like a spectral bad penny with TORSO; the aural equivalent of a dayglo Dario Argento movie shot during an apocalypse in the early 90s.
Teaming up with producer Wayne Adams (Petbrick / Wasted Death) amidst a summer of broken bones and Covid, Graham hit Bear Bites Horse Studio to create the otherworldly, deranged debut TORSO album, A Crash Course In Terror, in less than 16 hours.
Drawing influence from the weirdest of drive-in films, A Crash Course In Terror is a cinematic, moody and at times proggy trip owing just as much to the grunt and grime of sludge and grunge rock as it does the glamorous mayhem of KISS.
The album charts unhinged, lo-fi territories and soundscapes, with brooding industrial rhythms, throbbing Big Muff tones, sporadic samples and keyboard bursts, heralding a new world of riff-wielding, face-ripping, celluloid-burning Grindhouse rock.