Body Horror serves us fresh meat aka new terrifyingly sick single ‘Cull The Culture’.

Hailing from London’s Tottenham, Body Horror serves gross post-punk with a dance-drum sauce. It’s devilishly delicious. Even though they’d rather drift around their vast sea of inspirations fluidly, fascinated by anything from symphorophilia, Julia Ducournau to the over-the-top rock ‘n’ roll, in their rawness and ridicule they remind us of early The Birthday Party. Today, in their new, self-named meat and potato, single, ‘Cull The Culture,’ Body Horror ham-fists the paradox of hating the problem and being a part of it.

Can you tell us who you are, where you’re from and about the music you make?

I’m Gethyn, I sing. Toby on guitar and synth, Dan on drums and Bart on bass and samplers.

I’m from Wales originally, Tobys from near the Welsh border, barts from down Devon and Dan's from the far off dreamland of Sweden. But we all met in London, we’re mainly based in Tottenham.

Our music is post-punk but not the traditional moody kind, it’s more beat-driven, more over the top, and doesn’t take itself too seriously. It’s anything goes writing-wise. 

How did it all start?

Me and Toby have been writing together for years and we were looking to start a new project. I met Bart when I moved into the warehouses in Tottenham and we all clicked right away. Dan came in as the last piece of this beautiful pie and made us complete.

Can you tell me a bit about your new single ‘Cull The Culture’?

It’s actually the outlier in our set, a more conventional, meat and potatoes track for us but that's also it’s biggest strength. It’s a silly, over the top rock and roll track really which is why it’s so fun to play.

What’s the concept behind your video for it?

It all stems from symphorophilia, which is this fetish of being part of a disaster like a car crash. I became aware of it from “Crash” this J.G. Ballard novel and its film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg. I wanted to do a silly, tongue in cheek retelling of this very grim turn on. with a bunch of depraved guys roleplaying as crash test dummies. When you have a concept that dumb, it basically writes it’s self.

What other themes do you explore in your music?

Lyrically ‘Cull the Culture” is about cultural change, both good and bad. Both being the solution and being the problem. And our inability to do anything about it, because even our opposition to negative change is sold to us as part of that change. But the song is a very cynical, ham-fisted telling of that. It’s a dumb “shouting from the soapbox” one-way discussion which I think, unfortunately, makes sense with whenever we try to talk about this subject.

If you were to describe your sound to someone who’d never heard you before, What would you say?

Gross, over the top post-punk with a hint of electronic music in there. We’re actually moving way more towards that area with the stuff we're writing right now. Making people dance is what I’m interested in when it comes to our live shows.

What inspires your music?

Like I said, it’s what reaction we get out of the audience which actually influences the sound in a way. If we want to make them dance at this point in the set then we better write a song that grooves well and puts the beat first. If they need a break from that, maybe something that they can sing along to, we’ll need a “Cull The Culture” type tune. I find this stops us getting too stuck to genre and makes it less about us.

What advice would you give for anyone trying to achieve a similar sound to your band?

Not sure it’s wise you listen to anyone when writing music,  but maybe I’d say put drums and bass first, they are your most important element, your higher frequency parts should serve them. 

If your music were a film or TV show which would it be?

Well it would probably be a body horror film, clues in the name. actually one of the most acclaimed films of the year is a great example of that genre. “Titane” the new Julia Ducournau film, go see it.

Name an album you’re still listening to from when you were younger and why it’s important to you.

The Prodigy's “Fat of The Land '' is an album I was exposed to when I was very young and I can vividly remember it blowing my mind. While other stuff I used to listen to has gone on the scrap heap, that album just seems to stick around and still sound just as fresh. If it got played at a kid’s birthday party when I was ten, those kids lost their shit. If it gets played at the end of a rave now, those same kids still lose their shit. That make sense? lol could scrap it.

What do you hate right now? 

Lower-back pain, it’s just so shit.

What do you love right now?

I’m a big dancer, I love dancing.

What body part is the most horrific to you?

The lower back.

What comes next in the Body Horror’s story?

The new material we’re working on I’m so excited for. We wrote “Cull the Culture” so long ago so I really want to show people where we are now as a band. it’s come some way.

What upcoming 2022 music releases are you most excited about?

New stuff from us to be honest if we can get our shit together and get it recorded. been long enough. like pulling teeth sometimes trying to get stuff out.