ATTRITION - A Permanent View? Black Maria Remixed
A Permanent View? Black Maria Remixed from ATTRITION is out now on Bandcamp. A companion remix album for last year’s The Black Maria, the new album has been collated by ATTRITION founder Martin Bowes between 2020 and 2024, and mastered at The Cage Studios, Coventry, England in 2025. A Permanent View? features 20 versions of the previous album’s flagship songs – ‘The Great Derailer’, ‘The Alibi’ and ‘The Switch’– by artists from the USA, Canada, UK and Europe, including Bellhead, Chiasm, Microwaved, Lights of Euphoria, Vaselyne, Kitty Lectro, Satori, Khost, Jenna Leigh Raine, Martine and more…
“For more than 40 years, Martin Bowes has guided Attrition through tectonic musical shifts to become one of the defining entities in goth/industrial and darkwave music. Now, the band has released A Permanent View? as a remix companion to 2024’s The Black Maria… A Permanent View? features remixes by a range of artists from the U.S., Canada, and Europe – among them are Chiasm, Khost, SPANKTHENUN, Bellhead, Microwaved, Solemn Shapes, Lights of Euphoria, Kitty Lectro, Fakzility, and more...”
– ReGen Magazine (US)
“You thought ‘The Black Maria’ by Attrition was already a dark treat for the ears? Think again, because now there is even the remix version ‘A Permanent View?’, and it is as diverse as an industrial festival on acid. Martin Bowes, the legendary mind behind Attrition, has enlisted an armada of remix artists from the USA, Canada, Great Britain and Europe... The result? 20 (!) versions that present industrial, darkwave and EBM in such different ways that you can celebrate each of them like a new song… The whole thing was mastered in the legendary Cage Studios in Coventry, where Martin Bowes once again proves why he is considered an industrial icon. An album like a dark rush – are you ready for ‘A Permanent View’?”
– Medienkoverter (Germany)
“There’s well over an hour of music here, and it’s a pay what you feel release too. Martin has released three Attrition tracks from the last album into the wild and when they came home again, from all over the world, their friends had fundamentally changed them all. Start by listening to the Black Maria again and then take along deep dive into the world of darkwave, darkness and weirdness… they get odder and stranger as they go on. Everything from minimal beats and buried vocals to waves of static and massive abrasive hammer blows. It’s a perfect companion to the album and well worth an hour of anyone’s time.”
– Fighting Boredom (UK)
A Permanent View? Black Maria Remixed by ATTRITION is available exclusively now as a name your price download from Bandcamp, with streaming worldwide on all major platforms from 21 February 2025. The Black Maria (2024), meanwhile, is also on Bandcamp.
ATTRITION LIVE IN 2025
Feb 7th – Necroscope at The Arches, Coventry, UK
March 28th – Necroscope at The Arches, Coventry, UK
March 30th – The Black Prince, Northampton, UK
May 9th – Speakerbox, Bangkok, Thailand
July 18th – VOD Festival, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Sept 5th – The Black Bull, Gateshead, UK
