Decibel Magazine is hosting the exclusive premiere of “Night Tripping,” the mangling third single from Oklahoma City-based industrial metal outfit BLACK MAGNET and their impending third album, Megamantra.
Described by Revolver as, “excoriating and texturally scalding brand of metallic machine music,” BLACK MAGNET is the progenitor group of the new wave of American industrial metal. The band’s influences range from Godflesh and Nine Inch Nails, to Deftones and Alice In Chains Formerly the solo project of founder James Hammontree, the group has expanded into a trio and now into a quartet, some of the members also collectively playing with the likes of All Your Sisters, Destroyer Destroyer, Greg Puciato, and more. Following two acclaimed albums on 20 Buck Spin among numerous singles and an EP and having morphed into a solid touring act in recent years, opening for 3Teeth, Code Orange, and Author & Punisher, BLACK MAGNET has become one of the most revered acts in the genre.
BLACK MAGNET now presents its most ambitious work yet, with the crushing Megamantra. A dense and dynamic album which sees the band taking its steadfast approach to both harsher and infectious realms simultaneously, with an almost punk-inspired anthemic and energetic attack. With passages drenched in searing synths and jagged, grinding riffs, the album pounds forward like an unstoppable machine – oscillating between mechanical precision and suffocating tension, encapsulating the inescapable cycles of control, submission, and decay that define the modern landscape. With Megamantra, it’s clear BLACK MAGNET plays heavy guitar-focused music.
Recorded at Earth Analogue Studio, once again engineered and mixed by Sanford Parker (Voivod, Yob, Rwake), Megamantra was mastered by Vlado Meller (Johnny Cash, Prince, Beastie Boys) and completed with artwork and design by Jesse Draxler (Kendrick Lamar, Emma Ruth Rundle, Full Of Hell), who, with Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Better Lovers), co-founded BLACK MAGNET’s new label, Federal Prisoner.
With the new single, Hammontree reveals, “‘Night Tripping’ is a psychic transmission — a struggle with the unraveling of time. It’s a psychological burial by poisoned memory and future expectation. In certain states of mind, I view reality through trauma — what I call my ‘shadow life.’ Dreams become artificial constructs; the self, overtaken by parasitic thought. There’s desperation in reaching outward when the inner world is fracturing.”
Decibel writes, “On new single, ‘Night Tripping,’ you get the perfect electronic/metallic mash-up completed with mechanical percussion, distorted vocals, and robotic tribal rhythms, a la Ministry or another iconic Rust Belt act, Nine Inch Nails.”
Watch/stream BLACK MAGNET’s “Night Tripping” lyric visualizer first at Decibel Magazine RIGHT HERE.
Megamantra will be released digitally and on LP through Federal Prisoner on July 25th. Find preorders at Bandcamp HERE and the webshop HERE, and watch the videos for the prior singles “Endless” HERE and “Better Than Love” HERE.
BLACK MAGNET continues performing regularly in support of Megamantra, including a set at Heavy Hell Festival with Six Feet Under, Master, Thou, and more in September, and a more intensified album tour currently being booked. Stand by for additional news on this front to be dispatched shortly.
BLACK MAGNET Live:
9/02/2025 Rubber Gloves – Denton, TX w/ Wargasm
9/18/2025 Hi-Tone – Memphis, TN w/ fallfiftyfeet
9/19/2025 Firehouse – Birmingham, AL
9/20/2025 Heavy Hell Festival @ Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN w/ Six Feet Under, Master, Thou
9/21/2025 Farewell – Kansas City, MO
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