As LoHud/NYC-based experimental horror faction Gridfailure approaches the discharge of its colossal new album Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, the undertaking has unveiled the nightmarish new single and video, “Species Deconstructivist.” The monitor options contributions from members of Immediately Is The Day, Les Chants Du Hasard, Secret Cutter, Thetan, and extra.
The visible for “Species Deconstructivist” is described as a “blinding assault of visible discomfort,” with appearances from all eight visitor collaborators who seem on the monitor itself. Gridfailure mastermind David Brenner contextualized the only’s apocalyptic themes: “The Anthropocene is already underway, and whereas our planet clearly continues to incinerate round us – by our personal hand – humanity toils in political rhetoric, self-indulgent conduct, gross misconduct towards the atmosphere and each other, conspiracy theories, synthetic intelligence, and reliance upon nonexistent non secular saviors, whereas world leaders proceed to hurry us in direction of extinction with their very own achieve at play.
“This isn’t a warning; No, it is a promise. Mom Earth is coming for you – she’s coming for us all – and she or he’s acquired each purpose to. Gridfailure is the sound of humanity’s failure. A minimum of now you realize what to hearken to.”
Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III arrives October 3 in digital type, alongside a restricted cassette field set gathering all three Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery albums. Pre-orders, merch, and prior video singles are available now via Nefarious Industries (and here on Bandcamp).
This third chapter within the five-album Skulduggery cycle follows 2018’s Survivor’s Regret and 2020’s As Sources Are Depleted So Are Morals, persevering with Gridfailure‘s apocalyptic narrative. Throughout eighty minutes of confrontational battery, the album weaves excessive metallic, industrial noise, jazz, classical, techno, folks, Americana, and post-hardcore right into a sprawling soundscape of collapse and chaos.
Brenner himself dealt with the majority of instrumentation – vocals, guitars, bass, drums, keys, violin, theremin, discovered sounds – whereas overseeing the undertaking’s largest solid of collaborators so far. Contributions embody Steve Austin (Immediately Is The Day), Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore), Mac Gollehon (David Bowie, Duran Duran, Madonna), and members of Chrome Waves, Strolling Bombs, Cardinal Wyrm, Secret Cutter, Lifeless Register, and lots of extra.
The album was largely tracked at The Compound in Valley Cottage, NY, with mastering by Dan Emery (Thetan, Krieg, Kool Keith) at Black Matter Mastering in Nashville. Brenner additionally supplied the album’s paintings, design, pictures, and accompanying movies.
Whereas Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III embodies the apex of Gridfailure‘s ongoing narrative, the undertaking nonetheless appears ahead to future horrors. Two concluding chapters — Tooth Assortment and Drought Stick — are set to shut the conceptual cycle within the years to return.
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