{"id":2477104,"date":"2026-06-26T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2477104"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:42:48","slug":"only-bad-vibes-brutalismus-3000-on-making-their-toxic-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/only-bad-vibes-brutalismus-3000-on-making-their-toxic-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only bad vibes\u2019: Brutalismus 3000 on making their \u2018toxic\u2019 new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brutalismus 3000<\/a>\u2019s latest album, <\/span>Harmony<\/span><\/em>, is the Berlin-based duo\u2019s most ambitious work to date, by their own reckoning. \u201cIt\u2019s the first one where we found ourselves truly as a band,\u201d says Theo Zeitner. \u201cThe language we\u2019re speaking now is way closer to what we want to be. And the amount of work that went into this record was maybe a hundred times the amount we put into the last one.\u201d The \u201clast one\u201d being 2023\u2019s <\/span>Ultrakunst<\/span><\/em>, which arrived out of pandemic lockdowns in a storm of kick drums, blown-out vocals, snarling synths, and sweaty clubnights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ultrakunst <\/span><\/em>was technically the electronic act\u2019s debut album, produced five years after the pair met on Tinder and started making music together. But now, <\/span>Harmony <\/span><\/em>feels like another debut, Zeitner adds \u2013 at least, the first showcase of a different way of working, with collaborators including 100 gecs<\/a>\u2019 Dylan Brady and Boys Noize<\/a> on production, plus vocals from Underworld and Anya Taylor-Joy<\/a>. And, as with any \u201cdebut\u201d, the anxiety and excitement is running high. \u201cWe waited almost two years to release this,\u201d says Zeitner. \u201cNow it\u2019s like, what the fuck? Give us some more time. We need to process some stuff.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The anxiety has been tempered, at least, by live listening parties across the world these last few months. \u201cThe first listening party was in Japan,\u201d says Victoria Vassiliki Daldas. \u201cAnd people went completely nuts. It took all our fears away.\u201d The Tokyo show was followed by appearances in China \u2013 <\/span>\u201cwe were really surprised that we have so many fans there, and it was actually very emotional for me, because it\u2019s crazy to think that people listen to our music so far away from home,\u201d says Daldas \u2013 and New York, where the sweltering listening party was shut down by the NYPD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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