Scotland’s Blanck Mass aka Benjamin John Power has announced news regarding his forthcoming fourth LP Animated Violence Mild. Out August 15th on the Sacred Bones imprint, the 8-song record is an intro and outrospective look at not only Power’s journey throughout the past year, but also the current state of the world as a whole.

One of the songs featured on the upcoming album is the cut ‘House vs. House’. Taking elements of post-punk, coldwave, industrial, synthpop and more, Powers have managed to roll everything into one coherent listening experience that also boasts an air of nostalgia.

In a press statement regarding Animated Violence Mild, Benjamin John Power mentioned:

“In this post-industrial, post-enlightenment religion of ourselves, we have manifested a serpent of consumerism which now coils back upon us. It seduces us with our own bait as we betray the better instincts of our nature and the future of our own world. We throw ourselves out of our own garden. We poison ourselves to the edges of an endless sleep.

I believe that many of us have willfully allowed our survival instinct to become engulfed by the snake we birthed. Animated — brought to life by humankind. Violent — insurmountable and wild beyond our control. Mild — delicious.”