Pupil Slicer Return with New Album and Single (‘Fleshwork’)

UK mathcore trio, Pupil Slicer, have confirmed their third album will be released on 7th November via Prosthetic Records. Titled ‘Fleshwork,’ it promises to capture the three-piece at their most unflinching, pushing their sound into new, more harrowing territory.

As a band who have often cited film, anime and video games as inspiration, ‘Fleshwork’ sees Pupil Slicer build a world consisting of an all-encompassing industrial hellscape. It’s a setting that explores societal schemes that dehumanise and devalue the poor, disabled, queer and people of colour for political and financial gain.

“Fleshwork is a deconstruction of what it means to be human, the penchant for personal and society-wide self-destruction and systemic cruelty that seems all but guaranteed to rear its head as long as humans exist. It’s more grounded and emotionally charged than our previous work, with a stronger emphasis on the failings of our world to look after those who need it the most, and our own ability to look after ourselves,” the band explain. “How much pain can you inflict on yourself and others before you cease to be human? There is no limit; all of the worst things to happen to the human race have been caused by its own members. Fleshwork’s new image of Pupil Slicer is one that’s frayed around the edges, incinerated and burned to the ground; a survivor in a wasteland of loss and decay.”

Recorded earlier this year at Nø Studio in Manchester with producer Joe Clayton, ‘Fleshwork’ is the band’s first record with new bassist, Luke Booth. He joins vocalist/guitarist Kate Davies and drummer Josh Andrews.

The album will feature the band’s past singles, ‘Heather’ and ‘Black Scrawl’.

Pupil Slicer will also be on tour in November.

Hear the Title Track from ‘Fleshwork’

To coincide with the announcement of the record, Pupil Slicer have shared its title track. Utilising walls of dirty distortion, ‘Fleshwork’ takes an industrial groove direction, yet maintains the trio’s gritty sound.

“‘Fleshwork’ as a track originally started as experimentation into more industrial and groove-oriented writing that we found really worked well in the practice space. Since road testing this song, we’ve found it hits like a brick wall live and really works in that setting so we believe it’s a great starting point for this new era,” Pupil Slicer state.

“Lyrically, this song encompasses a lot of the themes of the album, dealing with manipulation, death, and total eradication of one’s own humanity to further a cause you don’t believe in and perpetuate a cycle of killing. The music video was directed by our good friend David Gregory who we are excited to be collaborating with again. The narrative in the video spans across all of the upcoming singles for this release, to tell a story that depicts the tonal and thematic elements of our album through a cinematic eye.”