With their new album, Damaged Dream, released this summer, followed by US touring with Light Asylum, New York City alt-industrial dream team Heavy Halo have unleashed their official remix for "Godspell," a new song by Erasure frontman Andy Bell.
The remix appears on The Crown Jewels, a special expanded edition of Bell's acclaimed 2025 solo album, Ten Crowns.
Produced by Dave Audé (U2, Lady Gaga, Rihanna), Ten Crowns includes a collab with Debbie Harry and has been called "a majestic moment in Andy Bell’s forty year career” by The New York Times.
Released today, The Crown Jewels is a 4-disc boxset featuring expanded versions of the album's ten songs, live tracks, and remixes by a short list of artists including Heavy Halo and Bell's Erasure bandmate Vince Clarke.
Stream Heavy Halo's remix of "Godspell," here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP7g8Y6eHQY
Operating out of Spellsound Studios in Brooklyn, NY, located inside a historic 19th-century building that formerly housed a hospital, Heavy Halo members McKeever and Gosteffects are purveyors of their own unique vision of industrialized alt-rock, a mix of human vulnerability and electronic power, hailed by CVLT Nation as "thundering, soaring industrial metal" and by Revolver Magazine as "chunky riffs and EBM-panicked beatwork... nihilistic yet melodic vocals."
McKeever states: "It was an honor to be asked to remix 'Godspell' from Andy Bell’s new album Ten Crowns. As lifelong fans of Andy's otherworldly vocals and futuristic synth pop sound palette, we were absolutely psyched. We had to finish the remix within three days after getting home from our summer tour with Light Asylum. After sleeping for a solid 24 hours in our own beds, we got right to work. The song was already unique, melodically and lyrically, so it was hugely inspiring to dig into. The verses are laced with castigating vitriol and disdain for grifters and selfish hangers-on. We tried to echo this venom in the instrumental we created and up the aggression quotient. Heavy kicks, biting bass, and serrated synthetic guitars were the order of the day, with a layer of spectral haunting chords hovering over the whole affair."
Operating out of Spellsound Studios in Brooklyn, NY, located inside a historic 19th-century building that formerly housed a hospital, Heavy Halo members McKeever and Gosteffects are purveyors of their own unique vision of industrialized alt-rock, a mix of human vulnerability and electronic power, hailed by CVLT Nation as "thundering, soaring industrial metal" and by Revolver Magazine as "chunky riffs and EBM-panicked beatwork... nihilistic yet melodic vocals."
McKeever states: "It was an honor to be asked to remix 'Godspell' from Andy Bell’s new album Ten Crowns. As lifelong fans of Andy's otherworldly vocals and futuristic synth pop sound palette, we were absolutely psyched. We had to finish the remix within three days after getting home from our summer tour with Light Asylum. After sleeping for a solid 24 hours in our own beds, we got right to work. The song was already unique, melodically and lyrically, so it was hugely inspiring to dig into. The verses are laced with castigating vitriol and disdain for grifters and selfish hangers-on. We tried to echo this venom in the instrumental we created and up the aggression quotient. Heavy kicks, biting bass, and serrated synthetic guitars were the order of the day, with a layer of spectral haunting chords hovering over the whole affair."
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