Stream NUCLEAR DUDES’ “Skeletal Blasphemy” HERE.
Electro powerviolence project NUCLEAR DUDES will unleash a new full-length, Skeletal Blasphemy, on November 14th via The Ghost Is Clear Records.
NUCLEAR DUDES is the inventive, anarchic yet sophisticated project of multi-instrumentalist and underground mainstay Jon Weisnewski (Sandrider, Akimbo). Originally conceived as a COVID-19 lockdown hyper hybrid, clever blend of Gary Numan meets Carcass, the project has since grown longer legs to include collaborations and a wider array of influences.
“NUCLEAR DUDES started as ‘something to do’ during the pandemic,” Weisnewski offers. “Turns out it’s real sticky. It’s become a consistent project that is exploring metal/grind, synth, and collaborating with musicians I love and admire.”
Skeletal Blasphemy is perhaps the most focused effort yet under the NUCLEAR DUDES moniker, a rollercoaster team-up with Coady Willis (High On Fire, Melvins, Murder City Devils), one of heavy rock’s most lauded percussionists.
“Coady and I started planning this release in 2023 and both worked on it on the side through 2024,” Weisnewski says. “Coady recorded all the drums at his own studio. I recorded all instruments and vocals at my house or practice space in Seattle, Washington.”
Despite the distance, the material has an incredible kinetic energy and wholeness to it. It “cooks,” as the kids say. Coming off as some futuristic hybrid that fans of rhythmic shifting pioneers like DFA 1979 and Lightning Bolt or more experimental Mastodon and new wave fans could all enjoy, Skeletal Blasphemy makes the impossible sound not only concise, but organic and logical. It extends the synth punky and multi-faceted earnestness of the group’s cartoony and disorienting yet potent attack into something even more formidable.
Weisnewski elaborates, “Some songs I wrote isolated and Coady played to them (‘Skeletal Blasphemy,’ ‘Fully Clothed,’ ‘Still Afraid’), and some songs were a drum part that Coady put together that I layered music on top of (‘Tastes Like Medicine,’ ‘The Octopus’). It was a pretty creatively unrestricted project in that sense.”
In advance of the release, today the band unleashes the opening title track, “Skeletal Blasphemy.”
Stream NUCLEAR DUDES’ “Skeletal Blasphemy” HERE.
Mixed by Matt Bayles (Giant Squid, Isis) and mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, the album is arriving mere weeks after the previous effort Truth Paste, a grindy, violent, twenty-minute collaboration with vocalist Brandon Nakamura. Unlike Truth Paste, which was self-released and digital only, Skeletal Blasphemy will be released in conjunction with taste makers The Ghost Is Clear Records.
“I started talking to TGIC about collaborating in 2024,” Weisnewski confirms. “They are prolific as hell, putting out non-stop cool and interesting music, and I’m fucking stoked to work with them.”
NUCLEAR DUDES’ Skeletal Blasphemy will be released on limited vinyl (Black – Ltd. 300; Blue – Ltd. 100) and digitally.
Find vinyl preorders at The Ghost Is Clear Records webshop HERE and digital orders at Bandcamp HERE.
Skeletal Blasphemy Track Listing:
1. Skeletal Blasphemy
2. Fully Clothed And Still Afraid
3. Antisax
4. Victory Pants
5. Tastes Like Medicine
6. Bat Body
7. These Machines
8. The Octopus
https://www.instagram.com/nucleardudes
https://www.tiktok.com/nucleardudes
https://www.nucleardudes.bandcamp.com
https://theghostisclearrecords.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TGICRECS
https://www.instagram.com/tgic_recs/