Mensa Deathsquad wants you to live in a world without shame or guilt. Mensa Deathsquad wants you to dance and think and fuck and cry in a state of total liberation from your pressures, your hang-ups and your social anxiety. Mensa Deathsquad says that not only is there beauty in the darkness of the world, but also joy, rapture, ecstasy. As the saying goes, “three things will not remain long hidden; the sun, the moon and the truth” and the third Mensa Deathsquad album You Will Hear Thunder finds creator Brandon Phillips pivoting from the aesthetic treasure hunts of previous albums like Cyclist and Patient Zero and turning the searching lens inward looking for the raw, vulnerable places that tell us truths we can feel in our blood. Tracking with Philips’ long history as a member of groups like The Gadjits, The Architects, Other Americans and Brandon Phillips and The Condition, the songs that make up You Will Hear Thunder are smart, sexy, thoughtful and thought-provoking bangers. Bangers optimized for late hours, raised pulses and sweaty catharsis. Where Mensa Deathsquad once began as a way to have some fun with a laptop, it now aspires to be a gleaming electro-punk bullet cutting its way through the darkness of a Frank Miller-esque world of extremes. “The electronic music that I daydream about, always has that Stooges layer of dirt and shop grease on it. That’s what I want.”