SUMAC & Moor Mother

In the organizer's words:

CTM Festival presents the live premiere of the new collaboration between post-metal supergroup Sumac and poet and musician Moor Mother. At Festsaal Kreuzberg they will bring their new joint album "The Film" to the stage, which will be released on April 25th on Thrill Jockey and combines Sumac's heavy soundscapes with Moor Mother's uncompromising voice and radical poetry.

The trio of Aaron Turner (ISIS, Old Man Gloom), Brian Cook (Botch, Russian Circles) and Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists) are known for colossal compositions of toxic slump-dump-sludge, hardcore and improvised noise, where sonic extremes become tools of transformation. Moor Mother molds a haunting blend of spoken word, noise-heavy sound collages and radical politics into clear-eyed critiques of systemic injustice and deep-rooted explorations of history's unresolved legacies.

Pharaoh Overlord open the evening with the next stage of their ever-evolving sound experiment. Originally rooted in stoner rock, the Finnish duo, consisting of Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Ektro) and Tomi Leppänen (Circle, K-X-P), has transformed into a powerhouse of shimmering Italo disco synths and industrial noise, combining psychedelic grooves with hypnotic electronics.