Bonnacons of Doom

The Ferret presents:

BONNACONS OF DOOM

+ Human Hand

+ Thraa

Thurs 13th June 2024

The Ferret, Preston

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"Liverpool’s black caped & mirror-masked Bonnacons of Doom incorporate death trombone drones into their massed mantras and psychic wailings” - Mojo

Traversing the everyday in 2023, the need for catharsis only grows stronger. Enter Bonnacons Of Doom, progenitors of Trans Pennine hypnotic music. This mirror masked collective, amassed from across the North of England, have stepped up their mission accordingly on Signs – their second album for Rocket Recordings.

"Taking more of a Swans approach to sonic worship than swirling acid trips, the Bonnacons are monolithic in delivery” - Dazed

Signs takes the band’s engagement with tradition and ritual on a new trajectory, tracking forward into our digital lives and exploring how our actions are shaped by the post-human environment. New rituals and behavioural patterning evolve in response to the dominance of digital flows and interactions. The desire to reconnect to the ancient and the mystic grows stronger as our daily lives become ever more enmeshed within waves of information and disinformation.

“Volume. Exhilaration. Sensory overload… This is molten heaviness at its most graceful… versatile enough to survive collaboration with Liverpool Cathedral choir, yet packing a muscular punch that’s guaranteed to leave you reeling” - The Skinny

The accelerated course into the post-digital begs pause for thought on this new realm’s impact on human and ecological development. Building on the intimidating intensity of Bonnacons Of Doom’s self-titled 2018 debut, Signs offers a sonic response to the tension between the urge to pursue continuity with our past and to adapt to our changing present. Hypnotic grooves and the monomaniacal intensity of the riff are fractured by digital interplay, electronics and the incantatory vocals of ceremonial leader Kate Smith, coalescing into a metaphysical force which stands defiant of easy categorisation.

"The masters of Trans Pennine hypnotics make a long-awaited return.”  - Sun 13

Signs marks both a portent of things to come, and a roadmap of the psychic pathways to survival. Within these otherworldly manifestations lurks solace in a place where the transcendent powers of heavy amplification, sonic explorations and forces darker and more unknowable can coalesce to cathartic and redeeming effect. 

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Support from:

HUMAN HAND:

Noise from Lancashire, UK. Joe Hollick (Wolf People), Karl Eden (tRANSELEMENt), Jonathan Dickin (Mums/Honeyspider).

"heavy psych alchemy" - The Sleeping Shaman

THRAA:

Working without the constrictions of a traditionally structured song, this duo improvise around meditative drones, combining Sunn 0))) influenced guitars with soaring vocals. Making single take recordings, they capture an organic sense of sound that has cavernous textures with minimalism at heart.

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The Ferret presents:

BONNACONS OF DOOM

+ Human Hand

+ Thraa

Thurs 13th June 2024

The Ferret, Preston

Doors 7pm

Ages 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)