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new in stock from Records Of The Fleshgod.
Stabwound Empire
«Salighet & Ekstase».
«Salighet & Ekstase» is Stabwound Empire’s second official solo album and is now available via Norwegian imprint Records Of The Fleshgod. This one-man power electronics unit is no baby-cheecked newcomer. Stabwound Empire has prowled the Norwegian noise gutter for close to ten years with formidably instinctual works and prophetic live actions focusing on the darker recesses of modern urban society. «Salighet & Ekstase» is Stabwound Empire’s second appearance on Records Of The Fleshgod, and was proceeded by the now sold out 2011 split tape with Lasers Of The Inquisition.
The new album contains five compositions and clocks a total running time of 38 minutes. The cassette version is limited to an edition of 70 x, and is presented in a black-painted standard jewel case with an accompanying three-panel b&w J-card containing unique illustrations and coloring. Old school dubbed red cassettes with hand-written Roman sides indications.
Stabwound Empire’s new cassette «Salighet & Ekstase» is an existential and spiritual loaded work that lays siege on the Protestant theological concepts ‘spiritual awakening’ and ‘epiphany’. The revelatory dogmas are utilized as a starting point for an inmost critique of the ambiguous and dualistic similarities and boundaries that may be found within the congregation of: Religious awakening, revering mental insanity or the divinity of substance abuse. The investigation is voiced via five different character perspectives – each represented in the form of one album track. The subject matter is gazed upon through a hateful obsessive prism that refracts the acceptance and practice of divine ecstasy as sanctioned by: The individual, church, state, social castes or media. In this manner, the polished dome of concentrated devotion and dictated religious practices are fractured; issuing a multilayered query into: Power, control and autonomy; the nature and necessity of intrinsic manifestations; the questioning ambivalence relating to own spiritual revelations, the validity of stigmata impressed by divine favor; morally divided enclaves operating in obscurity across society’s strata’s; and the foul stench of institutional hypocrisy.
«Salighet & Ekstase» expresses in this regard a meaningful perverted distortion: The willing of a new spectrum of personal verity that seeks to elevate the artist’s unwholesome antagonism to relic status of the utmost prominent truth: To sense the frail weight of existence in our palms, and acknowledge that our destiny is to witness the prolonged descend.
«Salighet & Ekstase» was written and recorded in a state of raw stream consciousness during the summer of 2016. This is crude, hands-on power electronics with a high degree of atmospheric discharge. Versatile material, stretching from: Strict minimal structures with contrasting layers of chaotic and putrid embroidered static noise and subtle micro-rhythms; to doom-laden noise ballads incorporating mounting overloaded guitar evocations, feedback worship and gasping black holes; all executed with vile and barraging vocal tracts, oscillating between spoken word and manic sermon abuse.
Tracklist:
Side A
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Untitled
Untitled
Side B
Untitled
Untitled
B&W xerox three panel J-card with unique illustrations and coloring
Black painted cassette cases
Limited edition of 70
Released by Records Of The Fleshgod, December 1st 2016.
Price: 8,- Euro + shipping.
Special batch offer:
Stabwound Empire «Salighet & Ekstase» cassette + T-shirt: 15,- Euro + shipping.
