Like: A Place To Bury Strangers, Swans, Unsane
Label: A Tree in a Field Records
Adjectives: Uneasy, Serious, Destructive
Description: Swiss band Asbest, who are associated with the LGBTQIA+ movement and those who experience discrimination as a result of their sexuality or gender identity, use their upcoming album, Cyanide, to denounce the pressures of contemporary society, including the competition for achievement, self-improvement, and self-exploitation. The concept behind the new single, Cyanide for Breakfast, is dead serious and loaded with outspokenness. The group clarifies: "In Cyanide for Breakfast we tried to explore the connection between the requirements of a pathological society and mental health. We feel that an increasing amount of people need to ingest a cocktail of psychotropic drugs to survive everyday life. While we advocate people getting the help they need we feel that this development is treating the symptoms rather than the cause. An while we do not want to encourage suicide in any way we believe that fatalistically accepting the harmful status quo is also a way of giving up and denying yourself a life that is worth living."
