This is Attrition’s 40th anniversary year, with a new single and album to celebrate this mile stone for these pioneers of a darker electronica.
Formed in 1980 in Coventry, England, influenced by a mix of punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics, they emerged as part of the early ’80’s UK Industrial scene alongside contemporaries Coil, Test Department, Legendary Pink Dots, In The Nursery, Portion Control and others.
Founder Martin Bowes has steered the band, fuelled by a succession of critically acclaimed albums, selling over 100,000 to date.
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Punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics
The band has regularly toured Europe, North America, South America, Russia and Asia, appeared at major festivals and had their music included on a number of TV and film soundtracks.
Through their career Attrition have worked with musicians as diverse as psychedelic veterans The Legendary Pink Dots, to punk legend TV Smith, to Franck Dematteis of the Paris Opera.
A real who’s who of industrial music
Attrition’s music has featured on countless releases, from 1984’s “Bullshit detector 3” on Crass records, to the hugely successful “Animal liberation” album alongside Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich and more
Their song “Acid Tongue” featured on KTEL’s Industrial story CD, a real who’s who of industrial music with Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Ministry, Nitzer Ebb and Einsturzende Naubauten.
In Germany, Orkus magazine’s Best of the 90’s collection featured their darkwave classic “A girl called harmony”.
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Martin’s increasing studio production work at his studio, The Cage has included mixes for The Damage Manual (Martin Atkins, Jah Wobble, Geordie Walker, Chris Connelly), Die Form, In the Nursery, Black tape for a Blue girl, Mona Mur/En Esch and mastering for countless bands and labels. He contributed synths and vocals on a song on the last Pigface album, is the narrators voice on US horror series, “C for Chaos”, has written the score to US horror film G.H.O.S.T from Mutantville productions.
Their most recent album, Millions of the Mouthless Dead (inspired by Martin’s grandfathers experiences on the Western Front in 1917) includes collaborations with Anni Hogan (known for her work with Marc Almond through the 80’s) and the legendary Wolfgang Flur of Kraftwerk
During 2018/19, Attrition toured in the UK, Italy, New Zealand, Transylvania, Canada and Japan, and are currently working on an all new album for release early in early 2020, entitled The Black Maria. Catch him live at INFEST 2020 as part of the new album tour!
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