Black Cross Hotel, the Chicago-based industrial quintet featuring members of The Atlas Moth and Stabbing Westward, offer a final preview of their album, Songs for Switches with “Church Basement”. Black Cross Hotel previously released the singles “The House God Doesn’t Visit,” with XS Rock noting it’s “classic industrial sound” and Metal Nerd saying it “recalls Wax Trax-era industrial music,” and “Eyes From Nowhere.” The Nu-Metal Agenda dubbed the music “industrial cyberpunk.”
Born as a horror-inspired industrial-metal side project from synth alchemist Ragin (The Atlas Moth) and guitarist Marcus Eliopulos (Stabbing Westward), Black Cross Hotel quickly grew into a full band with Mike Miczek (Earthburner, Broken Hope, The Atlas Moth) on drums, producer/engineer Parker (Minsk, Corrections House) on bass, and DeEmme (Whipped) on vocals.
Songs for Switches was recorded at Electrical Audio studio and completed at Parker’s own Hypercube studio, both in Chicago. The album arrives via Someoddpilot Records, an offshoot of the acclaimed Chicago branding studio responsible for creative campaigns and logos for Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, Empty Bottle, and other cornerstones of the city’s music culture.
Songs for Switches tracklisting:
2AFPT
Eyes From Nowhere
Rot Together
The House God Doesn’t Visit
Song for Switches
Typo
Blood Dance
Church Basement
Teeth
How To Be Unburdened
Black Cross Hotel is Dee DeEmme (vocals), Marcus Eliopulos (guitar), Mike Miczek (drums), Sanford Parker (bass), and Andrew Ragin (synths). The Chicago based quintet released HEX, a DIY-debut, in 2022, with the Chicago Reader describing the eight-song release as “a shivery delight.”
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