photo by FOREIGN BODY and Miriam
“With straight pins, tongues, box-cutters and newspapers splattered in blood, the song puts a stranglehold on the listener, and the visuals seem to magnify the stupefying primal energy of the music.” – Everything Is Noise
Brooklyn-based noise rock/punk outsiders FOREIGN BODY today unveil an official/lyric video for their latest song, “Libertines,” through a premiere hosted by Everything Is Noise. The song marks the latest preview of the band’s caustic second LP, Libertine, set to drop via Brutal Panda Records on September 11th.
FOREIGN BODY plays raw, hideous, and vulgar music emblematic of the seedy underbelly of yesterday’s New York City, where sex workers walked the streets freely, rubble and decay were prevalent, drugs were readily available, and every businessman’s briefcase contained a loaded gun. The quartet spins Musou black yarns that polite society would rather have swept under the rug, soundtracking them with jaw-clenching and furious mid-tempo punk exploding with fresh ideas. And even though FOREIGN BODY drips with a loathsome mix of hatred for modern living and a desire for its immolation, they’re also one of music’s most promising faces.
Libertine is a wholly relentless album with unflinching portrayals of vice, perversions, and glorified excesses. The album was recorded by Matt Russell (REZN, Oozing Wound, Big Laugh), mixed and mastered at STR in San Diego by Matt Ibarra of Rectal Hygienics and completed with artwork by vocalist Hugh Potter. This is a must-hear record for fans of Brainbombs, Couch Slut, Rectal Hygienics, Unsane, Chat Pile, The Birthday Party, Flipper, Big Black, and labelmates Intercourse.
The new hybrid official/lyric video for “Libertines” was created and directed by Allan Demuth.
With the new song/video premiere, the band reveals, “Buying prostitutes and an easy exchange of meat. An ode to those who traffic in human lives at all levels and rungs of existence. Dumb women and sexual market failures meet each other on a race to the bottom.”
Everything Is Noise writes with their premiere of the video, “…those of us at Everything Is Noise, while collectively shaking our fists at the sky, really come in the service of rock and roll, and FOREIGN BODY understands what it means to take the hit full force to the gut. If guitars, drums and bass were fists, the New York City band would have us all black and blue…. The band relishes in the industrial wastelands of giants like Big Black and the Butthole Surfers, a retrospective look at a time that laid the primordial ooze for today’s bacteria ridden reflection pools. Vocalist Hugh Potter slinks his way through the sludge with the animated intensity of a young David Yow, an ever escalating plunge into sexual anguish. With straight pins, tongues, box-cutters and newspapers splattered in blood, the song puts a stranglehold on the listener, and the visuals seem to magnify the stupefying primal energy of the music.”
Stop by Everything Is Noise to scope FOREIGN BODY’s “Libertines” video HERE.
Libertine will be released on colored LP, CS, CD, and Digital formats on September 11th. Find preorders at the Brutal Panda webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE, and digital preaves HERE. If you missed it, watch the “Trophy” video HERE.
A week after the album’s release, FOREIGN BODY will tour across the Eastern and Midwest states from September 18th through 26th, followed by a hometown show in Queens on September 29th. Expect additional live updates to be posted as the record’s release draws near.
FOREIGN BODY Tour Dates:
9/18/2026 McDuffs – Philadelphia, PA
9/19/2026 Preserving Shows – Pittsburgh, PA
9/20/2026 TBA
9/21/2026 Moshmellow – St. Louis, MO
9/22/2026 Backline At Avondale Music Hall – Chicago, IL
9/23/2026 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN
9/24/2026 Portal – Louisville, KY
9/25/2026 Dirty Dungarees – Columbus, OH
9/26/2026 Pie Shop – Washington, DC
9/29/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY w/ Forn, Otay Ishii
FOREIGN BODY:
Hugh Potter – vocals, saxophone
Nikolai Kapetan – guitar
Collin Melazzo – drums
Thomas Koenig – bass
photo by Leah Komos
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