A Place To Bury Strangers have cemented the be-all-end-all space for over-the-top post-punk/shoegaze destruction.

Their latest single ‘Fear Of Transformation’ is a snarling, gothic techno-punk track that feels like getting body slammed by a wave out at sea. The track spirals around frontman Oliver Ackermann’s confrontation with internal paralysis. 

“Sometimes fear builds up and pins you in a cage”, Ackermann confesses. “A conversation occurs in my head where I have to convince myself to just fucking do something to break out of it”. This struggle manifests sonically in ‘Fear Of Transformation’, a jagged dialogue between the temptation to retreat and the drive to shatter self-imposed limits.

The band’s forthcoming seventh album, ‘Synthesizer’, promises even more of this raw, wild and loud catharsis and is out tomorrow.

🎧 Listen to ‘Fear Of Transformation’ below