KALEIDOBOLT's fünftes Album kommt im März
KALEIDOBOLT’s fifth album is pungent to the ears – KARAKUCHI out in March.
New single “Astro Boy / Ochanomizu” out now. Check out the official visualiser HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1idv_m0_mUA
Karakuchi is one record you can judge by its cover. The first time Kaleidobolt’s faces have adorned an LP, they have been fused into a torpedoing biomechanical vehicle. Echoing The Birthday Party’s Junkyard or Motörhead’s Orgasmatron (…on acid?!), the illustration epitomises perfectly Kaleidobolt’s agenda of “hyperkinetic rock”. Their feverish, psych-prog sound is full of motion. It jerks around at different speeds, threatening to spin out of control and crash into flames at any given moment.
Astro Boy / Ochanomizu serves as the third and final taste from the upcoming album. The band’s guitarist and singer Sampo Kääriäinen had this to say about it:
“We’ve all been Astro Boy at some point in our lives. He was meant to be an avatar of how things were, but when reality didn’t match that vision – cutting corners here a bit, he became a fucking superhero instead, carrying more weight than he ever should have had to. It’s a story as old as time, and a shared experience among all human beings.
The song moves through many valleys: from a crimson-colored intro, to galloping through the fields, to unexpectedly soothing melodies, into a world of shredding — and back again. Astro Boy has it all. It ends in something Kaleidobolt rarely allows itself: a loose jam, an evening stroll through the streets of Ochanomizu.”
Listen to Astro Boy / Ochanomizu HERE: https://orcd.co/astroboyochanomizu
Out via Svart Records // 6. Mar. 2026
Karakuchi isn’t taken too seriously. This is heavy and intricate music, yes. But as bassist and co-singer Marco Menestrina puts it, the Kaleidobolt attitude is “an ugly smirk more than an angry face with a fist.”
On their fifth album since forming in 2014, the Helsinki-based outfit lean into their strengths as a formidable power trio. With their previous two records, 2019’s Bitter and 2022’s This One Simple Trick, they had thrown everything at their disposal into the recording with no expense spared on overdubs, effects and kitchen sinks. Produced again by Niko Lehdontie (Oranssi Pazuzu), Karakuchi comes from tightly rehearsed, live-in-the-studio takes. Kaleidobolt realise that greater sparsity can be a strength, and they’ve allowed their instruments extra space to breathe. It makes for their earthiest, purest and perhaps most authentic record to date.
Karakuchi is Kaleidobolt at their hardest, fastest, tightest and super-driest. Pungent to the ears.
-JR Moores, November 2025
6.3.2026 Kaleidobolt: Karakuchi (LP/CD)
https://www.svartrecords.com/en/product/kaleidobolt-karakuchi/14014
6.2.2026 Kaleidobolt: Astro Boy / Ochanomizu (Digital)
https://orcd.co/astroboyochanomizu
Kaleidobolt: Coping (Official Visualiser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0S967bSScA
Kaleidobolt: Tinkerbell (Official Video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzhHMwa3B8
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