Carpenter Brut closes out his Leather trilogy with ‘Leather Temple’, the third and final chapter following 2018’s ‘Leather Teeth’ and 2022’s ‘Leather Terror’. Out now via No Quarter PROD and Virgin Records, the new album shoots the story forward into 2077, a world in ruins after a nuclear catastrophe, ruled by a transhuman elite called the Overlords. At the center of it all sits Iron Tusk, a paranoid tyrant running a dystopian capital called Midwichpolis, staging deadly broadcast races called Speed or Perish for a population with nowhere left to turn. Brett Halford, last seen as a serial killer anti-hero, returns here as something else entirely, rebuilt as a living weapon by rebel leader Lita Connor and aimed directly at the regime.
Musically, ‘Leather Temple’ lands like a detonation. The album pulls from a saturated 90s electro atmosphere, sharp beats, distorted layers, and orchestral weight, all compressed into something visceral and immediate. More cinematic than its predecessors and more direct at the same time, it moves like a chase sequence, each track a scene, a shot, a collision. Listeners are already calling it the most focused and ferocious entry in the trilogy. The title track arrives with a full video, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.