Body Horror + Material Goods

The Ferret presents

BODY HORROR

+ Material Goods

Thu 30th Oct 2025

The Ferret, Preston

£6 adv / more on the door

"Body Horror deal in a hard electro based type of rhythmical post punk, a type of savage New Order soundtrack overlayed by an unrepentant snarl" - Steve Lamacq BBC Radio 6

Body Horror met by chance when three members happened to move into the same Tottenham warehouse in 2016. Bonded by a passion for not sleeping and getting weird at techno parties, the post-punk songs they'd been writing gradually took more and more influence from raves. Before long they'd picked up a drum machine and a couple of synths and were pairing industrial beats and sequenced synths with sharp guitars, demented themes and feral vocal hooks. Body Horror found themselves at a crossroad between The Prodigy and The Birthday Party, and having released a few singles we'll soon see their first proper release with a self-titled EP in 2025.

As can be heard in their last single Goodboy, Gethyn Thomas's vocal style has moved more towards a rapping style; the vocalist's Welsh dialect coming out in the verses as the lyrics pop through with a much faster, more rhythmical flow. That's an approach he aims to lean further into with the upcoming EP; Thomas saying "All the tracks are written by building the rhythm and beats first, front and centre. So it just felt natural for the vocals to move in that direction. I wasn't consciously trying to rap, it just became similar to rapping because I was enjoying creating the flows so much".

This melding of the aforementioned Post-Punk influences, with Techno-inspired beats and the rap-adjacent lyrical style hits hard and feels as fresh as anything else around right now, the band having formed a cult-following around London for their pumping live shows.

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Material Goods - UK-based duo blending industrial electronic and post-punk influences. Drawing inspiration from acts like Nine Inch Nails and IDLES, they craft gritty, analog synth-driven tracks characterized by distorted vocals and clean melodies. Formed in late 2023, their DIY ethos and raw energy have quickly made them a standout in the underground scene.