- Thursday 2 July
Canadian Truck Violence sounds like a hardcore band that has moved into an abandoned house far out in the countryside and found a rusty banjo in a shed. The music is punk and raw, but also possesses a strange and disturbing poetry that conjures up images of deserted country roads and dark forests.
Lead singer Karsyn Henderson and guitarist/banjo player Paul Lecours used to play death metal together. They grew tired of playing music at full throttle and limited to genre stereotypes, but their interest in dark, heavy and dirty music lived on – and Truck Violence was born!
Their debut album from 2024 bore the concise and appropriately brutal title Violence. The album garnered excellent reviews from Pitchfork, among others, who wrote: "Violence is ballsy and weird in ways that Truck Violence convince you are normal." To be honest, Truck Violence doesn't sound like much else, and yet their dirty mix of sludge metal, hardcore, noise rock and dark folk seems organic and entirely convincing. Reviewers have compared the band to Chat Pile, who performed at the Roskilde Festival in 2023. But the dark and swampy sound of their music can also evoke associations to a more metallic version of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
Truck Violence has a reputation for being an unrivalled live band, offering intense energy, brutal sound and dynamics with their uncompromising expression. They are working on new material, and you are invited to throw yourself into the dirt when they visit Roskilde Festival for their first Danish concert.
