Hacktivist - Hyperdialect 2021 at The Underworld Camden - London

The Underworld proudly presents:
Hacktivist - Hyperdialect Tour 2021
plus Kid Bookie and Graphic Nature

Tickets  https://bit.ly/39I69eE
19:00 //  £16.50 adv.

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Hacktivist:

https://youtu.be/MazRtaAM2g4
www.facebook.com/HacktivistUK

Question everything. Consider your sources. Be wary of ulterior motives, insidious media narratives and even your own unconscious bias. Trust sparingly and try to make smart, informed choices. As the world slides further into ruin at the behest of old, rich white men ruling with catastrophic, zero-sum thinking, it's more important than ever to be vigilant and fight back against the forces that be who seem hell-bent on creating a dystopian future for us all.

Luckily, Hacktivist are back to help cut through the noise and bullshit, tooled-up and ready to attack with renewed vigour and reinforced ranks. With Jot Maxi and J. Hurley now sharing the vocal and lyrical load, drummer Rich Hawking and bassist Josh Gurner bringing the beats and rhythms, and guitarist and production don James Hewitt fleshing out the group's genre-fluid muscle, new album Hyperdialect arrives less like a mission statement and more as a flaming musical Molotov, declaring all-out war. 

"This is gonna flip the game upside down," J. promises, oozing the kind of battle-hardened confidence that only comes from the strength of surviving through the most testing of times and uncertain circumstances. 

"Hyperdialect isn't an album for people to just casually listen to," he insists, "we've taken things to the next level, which I didn't even think was possible. We spit the truth. We are the truth."

In 2016, when Hacktivist initially set sights on their enemies with debut album Outside The Box, the world wasn't fully equipped to heed their warnings and pay attention to its timely rallying cries. They return into a very different one, however – a world that's sadly now all-too-finely-attuned to the horrors they first forecasted four years ago. In the wake of a global pandemic that has sharpened collective senses and exposed the systematic flaws across society, these should be times primed and ready for the truth-bombs that Hacktivist are about to drop. But recent hardships only amplify the band's messages – these dispatches from the edge were written way before a virus brought humanity to its knees.

"The world is waking up," J. reckons. "Some of the stuff we spoke about on Outside The Box is happening now, and on this album it'll be the same story."

Jot goes even further than his bandmate on this, reflecting upon what he sees as a world already in the vice-tight grip of a nightmarish dystopia.

"All of those science-fiction movies where the future is dark and desperate? Well, they weren't fiction. That future is here, it's dark, it's getting darker every day and everyone's sitting around waiting for the end of this virus, but there's not going to be an end. There's going to be another wave and then another wave. Our Brave New World may eventually be very 'safe' and it will probably look quite pretty, but behind that facade there's going to be a lot of death, just like there is now. We're all about exposing that underbelly, because not enough people think about this stuff."
If all of that sounds grim and miserable, fear not, because Hacktivist aren't here for unhelpful told-you-sos or sensationalist scaremongering. What use would holding a mirror up to all of this ugliness be if there weren't some lessons to learned from the reflection, or at least to offer even the faintest glimmers of hope? 

"It's becoming clear that we are on the brink of some type of revolution," says Jot, with no small dose of conviction or optimism. "Hacktivist are here to bring truth and positivity – the silver lining of a society clouded in poisonous fear. Hacktivist also represents a voice that isn't afraid of saying what needs to be said. We're already living in the future. We have the choice to either be shaped by it or to stand up and shape it ourselves. Which path will you take?" 

It was with those battle lines clearly drawn and ambitions duly set that Hacktivist entered into the creation of Hyperdialect. Starting almost two years ago and developing on the acerbic sonic filth introduced by 2019 singles 'Reprogram' and 'Dogs Of War', the five-piece felt fired up by their new working dynamic and the collective process involved, with each member actively encouraged to contribute ideas until the best outcome was reached. Unusually, for such a group of bloody-minded insurrectionists, this democratic approach worked wonders – a testament to how much they were all on the same page on these 12 tracks. Aside from guest spots from rapper Kid Bookie on the monstrous 'Armoured Cor'e and Betraying The Martyrs' Aaron Matts lending his vocal talents to the title-track, this was all Hacktivist: no filter, no frills, and no holding back.

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Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM Artists : Hacktivist, Kid Bookie, Graphic Nature