"Fans of these unique projects know that what’s about to emerge from their dystopic womb has been worth the long gestation... it’s raw, disturbing, and sonically violent, as we already knew it would be."
-Cvlt Nation
Experience The Sonic Violence Of HYRROKKIN & MERZBOW “Spatially Raised, From Seed To Volatility,” via Cvlt Nation, here:
“Spatially Raised, from Seed to Volatility” is off of their upcoming album, Faltered Pursuit, which will be released via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia on November 5th, 2021. The final album consists of Merzbow's recordings, topped by Hyrrokkin's accompaniments (performed live, but composed in part by computer), laced with additional contributions from various guest musicians. It was then put in the hands of Rob Mazurek for a total "remix," and was mixed by Jason LaFarge (Swans, Nastie Band) at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn and mastered by James Plotkin (Sunn 0))), Gnaw). The artwork was created by Ian Anderson/The Designers Republic (Aphex Twin, Stern). Preorder, here.
With releases by the likes of Gnaw, Couch Slut, and Nastie Band, Sleeping Giant Glossolalia has been leading the pack when it comes to extreme sounds from the fringes of the avant-metal scene. An exercise in controlled chaos, Hyrrokkin & Merzbow's collab raises the bar once again, pushing the concepts of "collaboration" and "remixing" out into the stratosphere.
The project stems from Hyrrokkin's 2013 Inspire Rioting album, for which the band enlisted artists like KK Null (Zeni Geva) and James Plotkin (Khanate) to remix tracks from its Pristine Origin LP. When they contacted Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow, to contribute, he instead sent over a pair of his own new recordings and invited Hyrrokkin to use them as the basis for new compositions – flipping the script on the typical remix, Merzbow put Hyrrokkin in the cockpit and gave the band the power to build something new from a Merzbow foundation. Here now, years later, is the final result: Faltered Pursuit. It is also Hyrrokkin's swan song. Having shared stages with Black Flag, Body/Head, Deerhoof, Bill Orcutt, Mick Barr, and many more, the Yellow Springs, OH band officially ended its run in 2014; the band's spirit lives on in Ed Ricart's current band, Monotrope, an instrumental, avant-rock quartet which Burning Ambulance has described with these words: "Don Caballero quickly jumps to mind... Rodan, Slint, and perhaps even a bit of the Dazzling Killmen... They continually skirt the boundaries between math rock and those much heavier sonic landscapes."
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