TRACE AMOUNT - "Anti Body Language" video

TRACE AMOUNT: NYC industrial visionary reveals "Anti Body Language" lyric video; debut full-length drops April 15th via The Dillinger Escape Plan-affiliated Federal Prisoner label

NYC industrial visionary Trace Amount has premiered a new lyric video for the title track from his upcoming debut full-length album, Anti Body Language.

The album was co-produced by Fade Kainer (Statiqbloom) and mixed by Ben Greenberg (Uniform) and will be released April 15th on Federal Prisoner, the label founded by Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Black Queen, Jerry Cantrell) and visual artist Jesse Draxler.

Stream the video, here: https://floodmagazine.com/106002/trace-amount-anti-body-language-first-listen/

Pre-order the album, here: https://federalprisoner.shop/

As FLOOD reports: "Brooklyn-based musician Brandon Gallagher is aiming to create a new sonic language through aggressive industrial soundscapes that land somewhere between the solo experiments of Author & Punisher and the blistering horror-metal of Uniform (the latter group’s Ben Greenberg mixed the album). In fact, in the lyric video for “Anti Body Language”—the latest cut and title track from the project slated for an April 15 release on Greg Puciato’s label Federal Prisoner—Gallagher literally invents a new language to process his distorted lyrics through."

Gallagher discusses the creation of the unique new alphabet for the video: "I wanted to make something that was striking and bold and could represent the lyrics on another level without using an existing language. Every character was constructed within a hundred square pixel grid. It was one of those things that, as it came together, it made more and more sense with the music and overall vibe I was trying to achieve."

First conceived in 2019, Trace Amount took shape during the early stages of the pandemic, inspired by the grim realities of life in New York City at that time, and has evolved at a lightning pace ever since. The sound is a harsh strain of industrial music, evoking apocalyptic dread through primal rhythms, layers of synth and noise, and Gallagher's distorted moans and screams.

Anti Body Language is Trace Amount's first full-length but it follows a slew of other recent releases, including collabs with Pig Destroyer's Blake Harrison, Qual (William Maybelline of Lebanon Hanover), The Dillinger Escape Plan's Billy Rymer, Uniform's Michael Berdan, and more.

Of equal importance to the music is Trace Amount's visual dimension, expressed through graphic design and video work created by Gallagher himself and by collaborators of his choosing, illustrating a mix of real urban decay and sci-fi fantasy that intersects with the sonic assault to complete the picture. The "Anti Body Language" lyric video is one prime example of this dimension.

Photo by George Douglas Peterson