Label: Battleground Records (AZ) – BGR025, Larva – 007 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 21 Oct 2016 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: Industrial, Noise, Experimental, No Wave
Tracklist
1 Last Train To Nowhere 6:44 2 Old Flyeater 5:16 3 Inevitability 5:49 4 Soft Tissue Is The First To Go 6:40 5 We Are All Barbaric Scum 7:40 6 Flechette 3:52 7 Oh, Master 5:54
digital version bonus track: 8 Merciless (Godflesh cover) 06:46
Notes This is the CD release of the collaborative "Soft Tissue" album from Theologian and Lament Cityscape.
Limited to 500 copies worldwide for the first edition.
Soft Tissue is a collaborative album conceived by brooding Oakland-based “larva rock” project LAMENT CITYSCAPE, and New York “blackened synth-death” act THEOLOGIAN, compositing industrial degeneracy and post-metal heft to create a thoroughly oppressive, and immersive, sonic experience.
Recorded between Autumn 2015 and Spring 2016, Soft Tissue is a towering portent of calamities awaiting humanity as a whole, obsessively examining the fragility not just of our bodies, but of the subjective moralities which define our civilization as well. Spearheaded by producers Mike McClatchey of LAMENT CITYSCAPE and THEOLOGIAN’s Lee Bartow, and featuring input from past and present members of each project, Soft Tissue is underscored by a seamless integration of the best qualities of both groups. Bowel-wracking percussive attacks, brutally heavy riffs, and boundless drones are juxtaposed with guttural, apocalyptic, howls from the deepest abysses of psychological anguish.
Soft Tissue was produced and mixed by Mike McClatchey at Underland Studios, with supplemental production by Lee Bartow at Abandon All Hope, and mastered by James Plotkin.
Label: Danvers State Recordings – DSR77 Format: Cassette, C60 Country: US Released: 13 Oct 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial
Tracklist
A1 In The End Times 7:51 A2 The Sisters 6:02 A3 We Envy The Gods For Their Indifference 7:27 A4 Spent Fuel Rods 7:38 B1 Forced Utopia 6:56 B2 Subtract 12:04 B3 Indifference Redux 5:49 B4 Epilogue 4:45
Credits Layout – Theologian Prime Mastered By – Derek Rush Mixed By – Derek Rush Photography By – Derek Rush Recorded By – Theologian Prime
Hot on the heels of THE ICY BLEAKNESS OF THINGS, THEOLOGIAN’s collaboration with THE VOMIT ARSONIST, CLOISTER RECORDINGS presents RECONCILE. Timed to coincide with their live appearance at the DARKNESS DESCENDS festival, this 60-minute cassette (and digital) release contains brand-new material featuring input from Andy Grant (THE VOMIT ARSONIST), Mike McClatchey (LAMENT CITYSCAPE), Stephen Petrus (MURDEROUS VISION), and Derek Rush (DREAM INTO DUST). The album was mixed by Mike McClatchey. The word “supergroup” has been jokingly bandied about in reference to this collection of artists, but the final product is indeed a unique composite of industrial sounds, reflecting another step in the evolution of THEOLOGIAN.
Perhaps most notable is a return to an earlier, less harsh and distorted iteration of the project, with cavernous drones and thunderous percussion creating the sort of dense sonic environments found on the 2010 debut album, THE FURTHER I GET FROM YOUR STAR, THE LESS LIGHT I FEEL ON MY FACE.
Eschewing the longform drone/ambient tracks of older releases, here we find THEOLOGIAN attempting to approximate the immediacy and memorability of pop, using rhythm and melody to elicit slightly less sprawling emotional landscapes. The album’s eight tracks are interconnected by brief interludes, serving as touchstones along the journey to the album’s denouement. As the title suggests, RECONCILE is ultimately about coming to terms with past versions of oneself, while examining the present and fretting over the future. CLOISTER RECORDINGS issued this cassette in an edition of 100 copies, which became available for the first time when THEOLOGIAN headlined the DARKNESS DESCENDS festival on Saturday, June 16 at Pat’s in the Flat’s in Cleveland, Ohio.
released June 16, 2018
all material recorded & constructed by Theologian Prime at Abandon All Hope Spring 2018 with audio contributions from Andy Grant, Mike McClatchey, Stephen Petrus, Derek Rush side A/B mixed by Mike McClatchey Snowbeasts remix by Raab Codec cover photo by K. Berlin interior photo by Gretchen Heinel layout & design by Theologian Prime
Theologian & The Vomit Arsonist – The Icy Bleakness Of Things (2018)
Label: Cloister Recordings US – CRUS-34 Format: Cassette, Album, C62 Country: US Released: 11 May 2018 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Drone, Industrial
Tracklist
A The Icy Bleakness Of Things 30:46 B This Killing Sadness 30:19
Credits Layout – E. Henderson Photography By – Gretchen Heinel Recorded By, Edited By, Mixed By – The Vomit Arsonist, Theologian
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