For fans of Opus Kink and Maruja, post-punk outfit prostitute commit at lengths with visceral debut, Attempted Martyr.

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It’s not just a loose concept album. It’s a cathartic war cry of post-hardcore, noise-rock as the Michigan group deal with the war-torn realities of a world that is becoming ever-dissociated from compassion and honour in every waking moment that passes.

With sounds sampled from Middle East to West Africa, prostitute compile what we’re all thinking. Acting as a perfect outlet into what we’re all thinking – via the world over – its a call to arms.

Formed in 2020 in the bulk of Michigan, prostitute (made up of vocalist Moe Kazra, drummer Andrew Kaster, guitarists Ross Babinski, Bret Wall, and bassist Dylan Zaranski), are an Arab-rock band with an aim to confront an Islamophobic America. Part post-punk, part Arab rock in nature, their debut Attempted Martyr dropped late last year. A molotov of jagged instrumentals, industrial textures and prophetically powerful poetic lyricism, in a sensless world, this work of art is one of the thing that does make sense.

While the five were writing the record, the album in Israel had not actually happened yet. Now since its release, the album has grown onto have new projections; new meanings as war after war rages all for the benefit of the elitist few at the top. It’s this agenda Kazra rifles throughout like an unmanned missile of furious noise – and it won’t certainly be silenced.

For more like this, check out Maruja.