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With the dust still settling following the Brutal Panda Records release of their scathing fourth LP, How I Fell In Love With The Void, Connecticut-based noise rock henchmen INTERCOURSE present a new video for the track “Family Suicide Gun.”
The self-deprecating INTERCOURSE – vocalist Tarek Ahmed, guitarist Sean Prior, drummer Caleb Porter and bassist Pete Stroczkowski – has averaged a release per year since forming in 2013, and has kicked against the pricks, power brokers, and pissants who make America “great” while tempering their outlook with a self-deprecating look inward.
INTERCOURSE’s How I Fell In Love With The Void delivers ten searing new tracks that merge elements of metallic hardcore into an antagonistic foundation of corrosive noise rock. The album was recorded by Chris Teti (The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die) at Silver Bullet Studios in Burlington, Connecticut. It was mastered by George Richter (Thy Will Be Done) and mixed by Chris Teti and Greg Thomas. The photograph on the album cover was shot by Sherilyn Furneaux (Portrayal Of Guilt) and features exotic dancer Clementine.
With the “Family Suicide Gun” video, Ahmed states, “We got really into documenting shows and shit after I bought a Hi-8 camera so we could do the video for ‘Where Losers Go To Die,’ so the natural progression was for us to get a GoPro. Then I got the genius idea to have everyone film themselves tracking with it so we’d have a cheap and easy video. Also, the vibes at Silver Bullet are immaculate, so why not? The song itself is about the hell of capitalism and how people work themselves to death only to retire, if they’re lucky, with the best years of their lives in the rear view. We got the title from a Reddit post about a literal cursed gun that took out multiple members of the same family.”
INTERCOURSE’s “Family Suicide Gun” video is now playing on YouTube RIGHT HERE alongside videos for the album’s “The Ballad Of Max Wright,” “Another Song About The Sun,” and “Cryptid Divorce Court.”
How I Fell In Love With The Void is available on LP, CD, MC, and digitally at the Brutal Panda store HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
INTERCOURSE commemorated the album’s release on a tour with Nerver through the Central US in September. The band is now booking sporadic regional gigs, including a show in Medford with Miracle Blood and more on November 22nd and a nasty gig supporting Pig Destroyer and Deadguy in Philadelphia December 13th. Expect further updates to post shortly.
INTERCOURSE Live:
11/22/2025 Deep Cuts – Medford, MA w/ Miracle Blood, Consumer Culture, Ko Queen [info]
12/13/2025 Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA w/ Pig Destroyer, Deadguy [info]
“Sardonic noise rock outfit INTERCOURSE are back with their latest proclamation of misery…” – Decibel Magazine
“How I Fell In Love With The Void is their most caustic effort yet, blending corrosive noise rock with shades of metallic hardcore across ten blistering tracks.” – Metal Injection
“…they do what they have always done: deliver twisted, noise-rock-influenced hardcore shot through with a self-deprecating sense of humor.” – New Noise Magazine
“…a ten-song slab of chaos and unpredictability that hits hard as fuck.” – MetalSucks
“…INTERCOURSE dig into the dark and oppressive side of hardcore. The heavier groove works nicely alongside the noise rock influence, with touches of a sludge pedigree coming through when things slow down… INTERCOURSE understand that hopelessness is not always defeatism; sometimes it is the only way through.” – PopMatters
“As its own art and as a noisy, heavy distillation of modern post-9/11, post-COVID life, How I Fell In Love With The Void hits harder than a father’s belt. If the songs are Rorschach blots meant to reveal our more devilish tendencies and what’s ripping our skulls open from the inside, then INTERCOURSE are the disorderlies on a stage putting on a live show supervised by Nurse Ratched while we all wail and froth in our own personal apocalypses.” – Everything Is Noise
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