Grinderman confirm new single details

Grinderman have announced that the lead single from their upcoming second album will be called 'Heathen Child'.

The trailer for Grinderman 2 will be released on August 30, followed by the album itself on September 13.

A statement on the band's website read: "The song 'Heathen Child' cuts a deep seductively heavy groove interjected with dazzling squalls of saw-tooth distortion.

"It abounds in lyrical imagery at turns lascivious, paranoid, philosophic, absurd and flat out abusive."

Despite the group's four members also being part of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, the statement continued: "Grinderman is no hobby, no dalliance, and clearly no one-off: it is a crucible, an experimental workshop, a disciplined orgy of ideas and action.

"Grinderman is the one-of-a-kind band Nick, Warren, Martyn and Jim have waited all their life to be, and only now at this moment in time can have become."