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PREMIERE: Lonesaw’s ‘Barbed Wire Church’

Liverpool's Lonesaw share their debut single in the form of the harrowing 'Barbed Wire Church', watch the video below

Having established themselves as a searing live force, Liverpool-based, double-saxophoned industrial noise collective Lonesaw have shared their debut studio single, with the video streaming exclusively via tQ.

You can view the video for ‘Barbed Wire Church’ above, setting grizzly esoteric visuals to a song that simmers with minimalist intensity before an almighty, cacophonic climax.

Says director Jon Stonehouse: "For the video for Barbed Wire Church, we knew we wanted it to be more of an ‘experience’ than a traditional Music video; something to shake up the viewers consciousness a bit. We worked with the symbology of Western Esotericism to introduce ideas from Hermeticism and Mysticism and take them on a journey of reflection.

"The Video watched in its entirety from start to finish is an Initiation, I think that’s pretty obvious and we have no qualms about using subliminal messaging and trance inducing imagery to make our point in the unconscious mind. Are we brainwashing the viewer? Yes. Yes we are! The vast majority of people are idiotic beasts and need all the help they can get."

It’s the band’s first material since their LIVE EP which appeared in May, and will appear on a soon-to-be-announced debut studio EP.

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