Montreal noise/hardcore/metal quartet Truck Violence has announced a new album, The weathervane is my body, which will be out June 26 via Mothland (Canada) & The Flenser (Rest of the World).
“The body is as capricious as ever, felt everywhere and in everyone to varying degrees,” Truck Violence’s Karsyn Henderson says of the album. “It is young and reaching for consolation that cannot be found. Shriek some more, says this record, but do so together. Shriek your honesty just as your fellow does unto you. The weathervane moves to every whim of the world, a world of people, things and actions. There is no guiding principle that would calm the mind, and yet it is our duty to cobble something together, an abode and a bed, a long table and an open room swept by many feet.
“It is how we know beauty, because we are inadequate enough to suffer,” Henderson adds. “Every attempt is a failure, but in the failure there is proof. In the awkward moaning and imperfect jangling of strings, we fail and so we create beauty. This record is a uniquely human composition, one which yells in many forms. What surrounds it and speaks more than it is the perfect, reverent silence.”
The first single is “New Jesus,” a towering wall of sludge that goes from slow-moving gravity to quadruple time and back. Says Karsyn: “‘New Jesus’” is a rant about the blatant fascistic slide occurring both to the south of our border and on screen. It is loosely about the ABC—Trump settlement and the post-January 6th election fraud cases. The lack of any broader moral compulsions beyond centralizing power on the political right has led to a culture of post-truth, where there is no reward in accuracy unless it leads to an augmenting of one’s political capital, which it rarely does. This is as destructive in politics as it is in art. There is surprising apathy among young people in regards to this slide, who believe the acquisition of power and the subsequent lording over that occurs, is merely nature, essentially; what will happen, will happen. With these lines of thinking, you find more people sympathetic to this mode, if it is both natural and inevitable, why not acclimate and reap the rewards. Why not join the fascist grift, degenerate art through tiktok, etc.”
Watch the video below.
Truck Violence will be on tour across the UK and Europe this spring and summer. All dates are listed below.
Truck Violence – The weathervane is my body
1. My dog would fuck the air
2. Jaundiced and reaching for a mother
3. Compelled by Christy
4. House caught fire
5. New Jesus
6. Your name, It’s walking
7. Stomach as a tower and the globules descending
8. Gerard, be quiet
9. Kindly, wash yourself
Truck Violence – 2026 Tour Dates
2026.04.18 – Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival
2026.04.19 – Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Festival
2026.06.26 – Bristol, UK @ Exchange
2026.06.27 – Manchester, UK @ Outbreak Festival
2026.06.28 – Newcastle, UK @ Zerox
2026.06.29 – London, UK @ Windmill (Added Date)
2026.06.30 – London, UK @ Windmill (Sold Out)
2026.07.02 – Roskilde, DK @ Roskilde Festival
2026.07.03 – Paris, FR @ Le Chinois
2026.07.04 – Ypres, BE @ Ieper Hardcore Fest
2026.07.05 – Rotterdam @ V11
2026.07.07 – Nottingham, UK @ Old Cold Store
2026.07.08 – Leeds, UK @ Wharf Chambers
2026.07.09 – Cheltenham, UK @ 2000trees Festival
2026.07.10 – Newport, UK @ Le Pub