Hollow Frames – “The Countdown” feat. Lolita Terrorist Sounds Electronic Doom Rock from Berlin

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“The Countdown” is a gritty and industrial-tinged collaborative composition written by Hollow Frames and Lolita Terrorist Sounds. It marks the latest installment in Hollow Frames’ current project The Nearing, an “evolving album” that explores themes of emergence, transformation, and decay. With its oppressively haunting guitar drones and abrasive yet hypnotic rhythm section, the new Single feels less like a song and more like a sonic premonition of one’s demise: “A Blind God is choosing your misery / He counts down…” In the words of the vocalist, Maurizio Vitale, “when Hollow Frames reached out to commission the lyrics and vocal lines, the instrumental immediately sparked inspiration. Direct, raw, and tribal, the song summons multiple voices and characters, closing a circle of themes explored for years with Lolita Terrorist Sounds.

About Hollow Frames: Led by producer and composer Fyodor Sakhnovski, Hollow Frames is a Berlin-based “Electronic Doom Rock” project with strong cinematic and conceptual leanings. Previous releases include an electro-industrial concept album THE MANAGEMENT OF FOREST AFFAIRS, based on the novel The Snail on the Slope by Soviet-era authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. More recently, Fyodor collaborated with Chicago singer-songwriter David Safran to re-imagine Brother Claude Ely’s classic gospel tune, Ain’t No Grave, as a haunting murder ballad confronting police brutality. Hollow Frames' current project is an experiment in an “expanding” and “additive” approach to album creation, a so-called “evolving album,” entitled The Nearing that explores themes of emergence, transformation and decay. In addition to Hollow Frames, Fyodor is a co-founder of the electronic rock group »radiant devices«, which has performed alongside acts like Psychic TV, Xiu Xiu, Saul Williams, Pere Ubu, and Man or Astro-Man? among others. He is also a guitarist in the Berlin-based alternative art-punk band ANIMAL FEARS.

About Lolita Terrorist Sounds: Founded by vocalist, drummer and producer Maurizio Vitale, Lolita Terrorist Sounds is a Berlin-based avant-garde act that blends elements of post-punk, industrial, and experimental textures with raw and abrasive tribal rhythms. The band’s debut album St. Lola features contributions from luminaries like Kristof Hahn of Swans as well as the avant-garde icon Bob Rutman. Vitale’s collaborations extend to artists associated with Iggy Pop, PJ Harvey, and Faust and the group has opened for artists like Anna von Hausswolff and Lydia Lunch among others. The band is gearing up for the release of their sophomore album later in 2026.

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