Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Support: Kristof Hahn.

The Canadian border crossers of the post-rock movement are back - consistently and unconventionally: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (GY!BE) are defending their decades-long stance against the economic exploitation of artists through streaming and focusing on artistic integrity. In 2025, they deleted almost all of their work from the major platforms - a political decision with symbolic power

With their latest album "No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (2024), they are rethinking boundaries and opening up spaces for new sounds. This music is almost a manifesto, a rush of sound, a resistance to digital consumer culture.

Since their foundation in Montreal in the 1990s, GY!BE have defined their own genre with their epic, cinematic pieces of instrumentally charged chamber and guitar music. Classics such as "f#a#" (1997) and "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven" (2000) are considered milestones in pop history.

Their live performances, on the other hand, have a cinema of their own - with superimposed 16 mm film projections, collages of analog material and a visual aesthetic that makes physically understandable what is being negotiated in the mind

In almost 25 years of band history, GY!BE have released just two official band photos, give few interviews and consistently refuse to engage in social media or video productions. Their music, their work should speak for itself.

The new album is being released at a time when artistic attitude is starting to become audible again: Against the plundering by streaming corporations, for a decelerated but all the more profound engagement with sound, emotion and political awareness. GY!BE are one of the most impressive post-capitalist sound laboratories of our time.

Current album:
"No Title As Of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" (2024), GY!BE