Press shot by Sara May (click for high res)
Today Bonnie Trash share the video for their doomy, atmospheric cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' classic track "Red Right Hand", paying homage to John Carpenter with the accompanying visuals. The track is taken from their new EP, ‘My Love Remains the Same’ – out now on Hand Drawn Dracula.
Bonnie Trash is the darkened shoegaze/post-punk drone project led by twin sisters Emmalia and Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor. If your high-school MP3 player featured tracks from Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, doom metal legends Pentagram, or even shoegazey soft-rockers Slowdive, you’ll enjoy their unique flavour of rock. The recent addition of longtime friends Emma Howarth-Withers (bass) and Dana Bellamy (drums) gives the group a new lavish and layered sound, with this expanded lineup featured on the forthcoming EP.
‘My Love Remains the Same’ EP explores the impossibly heavy subject of love and loss and was announced with the ethereal single “Kisses Goodbye.” Today, however, they share the EP's cacophonous closing track, "Red Right Hand". Taking on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' most loved track is an ambitious move, but the Ontario band show they're up to it with this contrasting and powerful take. Chugging guitars and echoing squalls of feedback accentuate the original song's foreboding mood, while Sarafina's evocative vocal delivery weaves an air of perilous suspense.
Speaking on the track and accompanying video, Emmalia and Sarafina comment: "A minimalist doom take on Red Right Hand, This rendition is an homage to John Carpenter–invoking a monster that inflicts its dark and divine, desirable vengeance on the listener. Anger and resentment is readily accessible when feeling the loss of love. This is our demon."
"Red Right Hand" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T3juW33y1U
Other pre-order/pre-save links: https://ffm.to/bonnietrash-ep
Hailing from Guelph, Ontario, Bonnie Trash began as a two-piece act, with twin sisters Emmalia Bortolon-Vettor on guitar and lyricist Sarafina Bortolon-Vettor on vocals and drums. The twins are the primary composers and songwriters.
Together, they create soundtracks to the horror stories they want to tell, drawing inspiration from social commentary, the supernatural, and ancestral folklore. On their self-released 2017 EP 'Ezzelini’s Dead', the pair reimagined the myth of Ezzelino III da Romano, a 13th-century cannibalistic tyrant from their family’s hometown, San Zenone degli Ezzelini. Bonnie Trash used field recordings and interviews in Veneto dialect (spoken by their Nonna Maria and great-uncle, Cesare) to explore their Italian heritage, preserving history through music.
Their 2022 debut album 'Malocchio' and 2023’s EP, 'Hail, Hale!' confront the real-life horror stories told to them by their Italian grandmother. Over heavy, hypnotic riffs, pounding drums, and spooky soundscapes, the lyrics pull the listener into the meaning of the “evil eye,” a hex of malice onto another.
Both records were released via Canadian indie label Hand Drawn Dracula, the home of Bonnie Trash’s fall 2024 EP, ‘My Love Remains the Same’.
‘My Love Remains the Same’ EP track list:
1. Kisses Goodbye
2. What Have You Become
3. Red Right Hand (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds cover)
‘My Love Remains the Same’ EP artwork (photograph by Carly Hunt):
Bonnie Trash live dates:
Oct 30 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison w/ TRAITRS, Dermabrasion
Nov 08 - Hamilton, ON - Mills Hardware w/ Capitol
Nov 22 - Montreal, QC - M for Montréal w/ Dermabrasion, Breeze
Links:
https://www.handdrawndracula.com/artists/bonnie-trash/
https://www.instagram.com/bonnietrashband/
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