To see an archive of all previous tour dates, see the GIG ARCHIVE page.
MUSIC
Our latest album, GARBAGE ISLAND, was released in 2022 on You've Changed (North America) and BB*Island (Europe).
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bird queen of garbage island
video by Graeme patterson
BIRDWATCHING
VIDEO BY ASADC.
Nigel The Gannet
Video by Ariel Sharratt
Nigel The Gannet
SIDE SCROLLING VIDEO GAME by Jake Nicoll w/ graphics by Ariel Sharratt
The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalist Ariel Sharratt, often including additional comrades and collaborators. Their densely populated genre-shifting songs are packed with an abundance of literary, historical, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks. They move with heavy rhyme and a light step, incorporating a frequent fixation on apocalypse and ruin into work that celebrates participation in a mutually created, ever surprising, and even occasionally beautiful world. Which is to say they’re good dance partners and they want to dance with you.
Now based in the woods of rural Epekwitk (Prince Edward Island), The Burning Hell has famously ventured to every out-of-the-way island and inland neglected by the less adventurous, emphasizing presence and connection across latitudes, longitudes, and time, affirming a commitment to the political power of sharing music. It is a profoundly optimistic gesture delivered by way of killer tunes and joyful live performances.
When Mathias and Ariel aren’t on the road or in the studio with the band, they pursue art projects at the intersection of ecology and sound with their collective Idlefield Art Lab. Recent ventures have included mobile, solar-powered recording studios in Scotland and Canada, and off-grid recording projects in abandoned farms and lighthouses.
‘Ghost Palace,’ The Burning Hell's newest album, will be released on March 7, 2025 on You've Changed Records in North America and BB*Island everywhere else.
Music
garbage island
REVIVAL BEACH (2017)
PUBLIC LIBRARY (2016)
PEOPLE (2013/2014)
For more information on The Burning Hell's music, including full lyrics, music videos, and a complete listing of all releases, please see the DISCOGRAPHY page.