This just in from The Residents. The first new studio album in five years.
 
“Take a journey into the greasy world of euthanasia, drug abuse and an unhealthy obsession with heavy metal, as seen through the eyes of San Francisco’s legendary anonymous multimedia collective.  The Residents are back! Several years in the making, ‘Doctor Dark’ is a brand-new, three act concept album in the tradition of ‘God In Three Persons’, ‘Bunny Boy’ and other classics, recorded with the San Francisco Conservatory Of Music and visionary conductor and producer Edwin Outwater, best known for his work with Metallica.
 
Veering between blissed out electronica, dark, brooding soundscapes and balls-to-the-wall industrial metal, and tackling familiar, twisted Residents fascinations – death, sex, love, loss, identity and planes of existence beyond the immediate – this new album sees a reinvigorated, new look Residents venture into places few artists are willing to go, accompanied by familiar guests and collaborators Eric Drew Feldman, Sivan Lioncub, Peter Whitehead, Isabelle Barbier, Warren Huegel, Rob Laufer and John Cameron Sprayze.
 
Meet Maggot, Mark and the eponymous Doctor Anastasia Dark, and watch in slow motion horror as their worlds accelerate towards their inevitable, interconnected fates.
 
“The Buddha said that life is misery. For the terminally ill, dying in pain, life is misery compounded – but what comes next? Is there a heaven, a nirvana, a paradise full of virgins for every martyr? No one knows, but what is known is that nothing makes humans more uncomfortable than death – the ultimate unknown, the other side of zero, the everlasting void. But maybe death is nothing more than a warm feeling, after a lifetime of whatever misery we choose to embrace, suggesting that nothing is quite so satisfying as one more dip into a transcendent river, endlessly flowing into forever. Maybe it is possible to die happily ever after…….” – The Residents
 
Available on 2LP and CD, ‘Doctor Dark’ will be released worldwide on February 28th 2025 via Cherry Red Records and MVD Entertainment. The album will also be preceded by a single and  in early 2025.

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Side A
1  Prelude / Metal Madness
2  White Guys With Guns
3  Maggot Remembers
4  Tension
Side B
1  She Was Never Lovelier
2  The Gift
3  Remembering Mother
4  Contemplation
Side C
1  Survived
2  Calm Before
3  Circle Of Horns
4  Unchanged
Side D
1  The Gift Keeps Giving
2 A Choice?
3  Ol’ Man River
4  Take Me To The River