MTVoid, the project of Tool’s Justin Chancellor and Sweet Noise/Serce‘s Peter Mohamed, are back with their first new album in a decade, Matter’s Knot, Pt. 1, due out November 10 via Lobal Orning. “Matter’s Knot, Pt. 1 is our pan-dynamic tapestry of sound and thought, twisted together and pulled taut, a connection of ideas remotely fused between Los Angeles, California and Swarzędz, Poland,” Chancellor says. It features contributions from Aric Improta (Night Verses, ex-Fever 333) on “Propagator,” Isabel Munoz-Newsome (Pumarosa) on “Drop-Out,” and Andy Morin (Death Grips) on Scanner Void,” and you can see the tracklist below.
We have an exclusive variant of Matter’s Knot, Pt. 1, pressed to 180g metallic swirl vinyl and limited to 200 copies. It comes with a CD of the album and an exclusive 2-sided 24” x 36” poster, and you can get yours HERE while they last. Here’s a mock-up of the vinyl:
MTVoid have also shared a new single, “MaBeLu;” watch the accompanying video, directed by Jimmy Hayward, below. “It all started with a child weeping,” Mohamed says. “I heard it very early in between the notes, in between the noises. It was a fragile process that took me to all of those places that come crashing down, places that burn down to the ground leaving broken humans; lonely and sad children. It was at the time of the huge explosion in Beirut, and I was channeling my energy and trying to put myself in the mind of this child watching the catastrophe from under the ruins. The sound, the bass, the noises, and the beat all started to tell the story. Apocalypse Now… seeing the reality through the eye of cataclysm… I still believe we will get through this… we are falling off the cliff… Humanity needs that. This art drops right on the top of the wave that comes crashing and bringing the greatest transformation of our times. It’s terrifying and fascinating at the same time. ‘MaBeLu,’ I love you. I believe in you, and I will see you on the other side. Be strong.”
MTVOID – MATTER’S KNOT, PT. 1 TRACKLIST
1. Death Survives
2. Lilt
3. Propagator
4. Drop-Out
5. Scanner Void
6. MaBeLu
7. Magmaficent
