Post by laughnow on Feb 17, 2014 18:19:37 GMT -5
The first release from Slavestate 641A(features members from Robocop)
Listen here laughnowrecords.bandcamp.com/album/masochist
Buy here laughnowrecords.storenvy.com/products/5176859-slavestate-641a-masochist-tapeurl
Description from band:
"On this recording, we created our own microphones from aluminum cans and piezo discs, software for structuring lyrics, semi-working hydrophones, and made our best attempt at drowning ourselves by screaming underwater. I think part of my goal was to look at our influences, and our beginnings as a hardcore band, and try to make it unfamiliar. It really depresses me to see so many people fuck up this kind of music. It should fairly apparent what I think of ironic retro acts from the track “Screwdriver”, similarly I hope to avoid the pretension of attempting to link it to whatever “high art” is in vogue....
...The title ‘Masochist’ was provided by Luke, he said it encapsulated our working process, and reminded me of how literal that was (I used to have him hit me with a belt in between vocal takes to maintain energy)."
What other people said:
"Slavestate 641A is punks very own antihero, gone is the vitriolic vibrancy and adolescent furor we have come to expect of the genre and in its stead stands a bled out nadir of punk, a drone of mangled chords and circuitry set to insomniac servitude under the slow burn of skulking rhythmic collapse. Masochist reeks of dilapidation and despair, existing - if we can call it such, in a state too fragile and cold for gainful exertion, instead it passes its torment with crumbling therapeutic throes and anodyne sedation that permeates deep under the skin for an unsettling crawling sensation."
- Grind to Death
"This is not grind in the musical sense. It’s grind in the tectonic sense. It’s the slow motion smashing of giant plates of earth, buckling and crumbling under the pressure of uncompromising repetition. Born from Robocop, who helped lead the power violence resurgence, Slavestate 641A pull much the same trick on classic Godflesh and Swans, reinvigorating heavy as fuck slow motion misery that crawls along at a stumble step."
-Andrew Childers, Grind and Punishment