Ackermann describes the new single as being “about internally begging to a God when you might not necessarily believe in one. It’s that moment where there’s just a sliver of hope that anything in your head might connect you with the Universe and actually make a change.“

Following on in their series of grizzly horror-themed music videos, Travis Stevens is the latest pick, known for such features as Jakob’s Wife and Girl on the Third Floor. And they obviously made the right pick. Stevens was dedicated to the task of putting the unique sounds of APTBS to video, stating that “The entire album rips but there’s a plea to transform suffering into joy in this song that I really sparked to. In order to emulate the raw unpredictability of an APTBS performance, I tried to create a similar magical combination of flesh, emotion, intuition and technology.“

Other horror directors the band have used over the previous months include Chad Crawford Kinkle for the single “I’m Hurt“, as well as Keith Thomas for the single “I Disappear (When You’re Near)“. The videos typically depict some macabre setting, such as two women fighting to the death in the latter. The band’s press release has a fittingly gory description of their latest video, citing that “flesh and blood commingle in a pileup of heaving, mysterious biomass as a mechanical womb gives birth to an oily, ectoplasmic form”.

If you want to purchase or stream the new album, you can look at this link here. As for seeing them live, a new tour of theirs kicked off just yesterday down in Warsaw, and will take them all over America and Europe, visiting the likes of Seattle, Vancouver, Philadelphia and plenty more. As for their European fans, Budapest, Munich and Zurich are just some of the places they’ll be getting to soon enough. The full list of tour dates can be seen at their website here. They have only one UK venture planned as of now, coming to London’s Lafayette on April 2nd.

Made for the track “I Disappear (When You’re Near)”, it’s the second APTBS music video to be directed by someone from the horror genre, after the Chad Crawford Kinkle video for “I’m Hurt“ a couple of weeks back (Kinkle being known for films such as Dementer and Jug Face).

This time around, director Keith Thomas was behind the camera. Thomas is well known for such career-highlights as The Vigil and the upcoming Stephen King adaptation Firestarter. Bringing his talents to the noise-rock genre, he said that “I’ve always wanted to dig into music videos ….. ‘I Disappear (When You’re Near)’ is a great, enigmatic song and I wanted to give it an enigmatic visual component.“

To be fair though, the video speaks for itself, at least in terms of blood-lust and gore. Featuring a fight to the death between two women, Kika Magalhaes (from The Eyes of My Mother) and Malky Goldman (who starred in Thomas’ The Vigil), it’s just a normal Sunday afternoon for APTBS. Their press release says that “Thomas’ practical effects wizardry is on display throughout, with each gory set-piece accumulating in terror until the final splatter-filled curtain call“.

The track has become the fourth single released from the new album, after tracks “Let’s See Each Other“, “Hold on Tight“ and “I’m Hurt“. The press release says “I Disappear (When You’re Near)” wrestles “with self-destructive impulses masquerading as a path towards redemption“, with “Ackermann’s pained vocal [seeking] cover in layers of distortion and reverb — begging for more and more until it becomes indistinguishable from noise and desire“.

As for touring, the band have announced their new schedule for a tour of the US, which had to be delayed from the original January-February time due to the pandemic. It will now be taking place in May-June, alongside a visit to Europe around March-April (they’ll be visiting London on April 2^nd). More details can be seen here.

As for See Through You, if you want to stream it, you can go here. If you want to purchase it, then look here. As for a vinyl release, you’ll have to wait until March 11^th. As for more guts and gore videos for the new album, we’ll just have to wait and see what’s coming next from the dark minds of APTBS.

“Let’s See Each Other” is an intimate and disarming love song from a forgotten future, combining elements of post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, and avant-garde music in startling and unexpected ways.  Syncopated memories and deconstructed fantasies of lovers lost in a city that doesn’t know their names. The video features the band destroying the song while imploring people to reunite.

Announcing our 6th album “SEE THROUGH YOU”
Coming out Feb 4 on @dedstrangerecords

Video #1 – “Let’s See Each Other” directed by @davypelletierhttps://t.co/YTF1RRQYGO@brooklynvegan https://t.co/9vQSdZNdIU

Pre-Order:https://t.co/hBpXz2u9xB pic.twitter.com/DGag9D3mga

— APTBS (@APTBS) November 16, 2021

The album, featuring new members John Fedowitz and Sandra Fedowitz on bass and drums, is going to be released with 13 tracks:

1. Nice Of You to Be There for Me
2. I’m Hurt
3. Let’s See Each Other
4. So Low
5. Dragged In a Hole
6. Ringing Bells
7. I Disappear (When You’re Near)
8. Anyone But You
9. My Head Is Bleeding
10. Broken
11. Hold On Tight
12. I Don’t Know How You Do It
13. Love Reaches Out

The band have also announced an extensive world tour with support from Glove, TV Priest, Jealous, Plattenbau, Lunacy, and Native Sun. You can get tickets here. See the dates for the European leg of the tour below.

09/03/22 – Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
10/03 – Dresden, Germany – Beatpol
11/03 – Warsaw, Poland – Poglos
12/03 – Prague, Czech Republic – Futurum
13/03 – Bratislava, Slovakia – Randal Club
14/03 – Budapest, Hungary – Durer Kert
16/06 – Control Club – Bucharest, Romania
17/03 – Mixtape5 – Sofia, Bulgaria
18/03 – Eightball – Thessaloniki, Greece
19/03 – Temple – Athens, Greece
21/03 – 25^th of May Hall – Skopje, North Macedonia
22/03 – Club Drugstore – Belgrade, Serbia
24/03 – Mochvara – Zagreb, Croatia
25/03 – Freakout Club – Bologna, Italy
26/03 – Largo – Rome, Italy
27/03 – Legend Club – Milan, Italy
29/03 – Bogen F – Zurich, Switzerland
30/03 – Backstage – Munich, Germany
31/03 – Caves Du Memoir – Martigny, Switzerland
01/04 – La Trabendo – Paris, France
02/04 – Lafayette – London, England
04/04 – Kayka – Antwerp, Belgium
05/04 – Gleis 22 – Munster, Germany
06/04 – Melkweg – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
07/04 – Vera – Groningen, The Netherlands
09/04 – Hus 7 – Stockholm, Sweden
10/04 – John Dee – Oslo, Norway
11/04 – Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, Denmark
12/04 – Hole 44 – Berlin, Germany
13/04 – MTC – Cologne, Germany

Photo Credit: Press/  Ebru Yildiz