Benefits - Nails

Released 21st April 2023

Critically acclaimed Teesside agitators Benefits return with the announcement of their much-anticipated debut album NAILS.

In their four years of existence, much has changed for Benefits. Over lockdown they morphed from spirited guitar-led punks into overwhelmingly brutal harsh noise-wielders, whose furious, eviscerating music garnered them the kind of word of mouth following most artists can only dream of. Frontman Kingsley Halls spoken (and screamed) vocals acting as a righteous rebuke to the divisive, xenophobic, poisonous rhetoric coming from elsewhere, spread by those who stand to profit from the fallout , that had all but overwhelmed our public discourse.

Every time one of the bands bracing polemic s arrived it would spread rapidly across social media like an antidote to that disease and gather more to Benefits cause. High profile fans like Steve Albini, Sleaford Mods and Modeselektor were among those o