YESSYESS!!! British two-piece NOISEPICKER release 1st video and single for the track “What You Deserve” – taken from their upcoming album “The Earth Will Swallow The Sun”
Watch NOISEPICKER’s “What You Deserve” video here:
Noisepicker’s Harry Armstrong giving context about the video and its creation as follows:
“The video was filmed at the stunning UT Connewitz theatre in Leipzig during the EOM record labels 25th birthday celebrations in 2024. The theatre is a thing of absolute beauty and wears it’s scars on it’s sleeves for all to see. Abused and mis-treated for many years, it was finally rescued by local music enthusiasts and brought back to life – to stand defiant in the face of adversity. I feel this suits the song perfectly. It is a song about revenge without apology, and the theatre has an aura that it’s own revenge is fully in motion, and that the outcome, no matter how brutal, it will be justified!”
With more than a quarter of a century of noise making history behind him, singer and guitarist Harry Armstrong returns, alongside drummer Kieran Murphy, as Noisepicker and release their second album, available March 21st 2025 via Exile On Mainstream Records.
Also known as the current bass player in Orange Goblin, you may well have caught Armstrong on countless festival line ups, experimenting with sounds in bands such as the hard rock of Blind River, the thrash metal of End Of Level Boss, the piano-led jazz rock of The Earls Of Mars, getting his stoner fix in Hangnail and Firebird (alongside Bill Steer and Ludwig Witt), the instrumental soundscapes of The Winchester Club, the death metal of Decomposed, and that’s just to name a few. Murphy has been earning merits in Cold Comforts and several other bands such as being the drummer for Paige Kennedy.
Having released their first album “Peace Off” in 2018, also on the Exile On Mainstream label, other commitments (and the dreaded C-19 shutdown) put Noisepicker on a slight hiatus, until a stash of un-used riff ideas were dusted off during 2024 to make what is about to be their second full-length release.
On a permanent search to constantly try “something else”, Armstrong has taken to writing, recording and mixing this new record himself, just to see if he could. Recorded in a rehearsal room, and mixed in his kitchen, it is an approach to music with a DIY ethic fully embedded in it’s heart.
Do not expect neat, polished, note perfect, carefully constructed opuses in this environment. Noisepicker are loud, abrasive and in constant flux, influenced by their love of all things doom, punk and blues. Come stare aghast at it.
Exile On Mainstream will release The Earth Will Swallow The Sun March 21st, digitally and on audiophile virgin Black Vinyl LP with a bundled CD.
Find physical preorders at the label webshop HERE.
Tracklisting:
1. What You Deserve
2. Chew
3. Tomorrow Lied The Devil
4. Leave Me The Name
5. What Did You Think Was Going To Happen
6. The End Of The Beginning
7. Start The Flood
8. The Earth Will Swallow The Sun
9. Lorraine In Blood
10. Lunatics