You get a roughly 20 seconds of prelude before Modern Technology lays into “Dead Air.” The driving bass line and splayed accents on the drums early in the song are an apt vehicle for a song that about the climate disaster we’re experiencing in real time that we were told by officialdom was decades off and then recently 10-20 years as if that would placate anyone actually paying attention and living with the immediate effects. The distorted bass and vocals rip through that facade with images of an outdoors where the air is thick with pollution and “heat dome” effects in various parts of the planet. Noise rock, modern hardcore and extreme metal have been great vehicles for expressing the spirit of a time of multiple crises and London’s Modern Technology does so here with a colossal heft and yet leaves the song on a note of faint hope about how our civilization could change course and lessen the crushing impact of climate change even if we’ve seen no political global will on the part of the powers that be yet. Watch the video for “Dead Air” on YouTube and follow Modern Technology at the links below. The full-length album Conditions of Worth is out now including a limited vinyl edition via Human Worth with 10% of sales proceeds donated to the charity Choose Love.
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