San Francisco Bay Area DIY and darkness-obsessed indie label Sentient Ruin Laboratories is extremely proud and honored to announce the August 19th 2014 release of “Coping With Loss”, The debut album from obscure Virginia-based black metal/punk/industrial/noise degenerates american (spelled all lowercase).
The album can be pre-ordered here.
Composed of seven tracks for a total running time of little over forty minutes, “Coping With Loss” is a frightening voyage within the bleakest depths of the most cruel sonic ruin and auditive annihilation imaginable.
This album is an absolute statement in musical perversion, torture, sadism, and complete sonic savagery - an authentic sonic ordeal that draws inspiration from a wide array of influences, spanning from raw crust-infused hardcore punk, to noise and industrial music, to the proudest and most vile moments of traditional black metal. Fans of The Body, Iskra, Blut Aus Nord, and Young And In The Way will not be disappointed.
Tracklist:
01. Ritual Suicide
02. Decedents
03. Retinere
04. Lamb to Slaughter
05. Pulse Beating Slowly
06. Solace in the Silence
07. Coping With Loss and the Insurmountable Guilt of Existing
american are a frightening enigma, one of those musical projects that were birthed at the outskirts of everything, at the very edge of existence, within a remote wasteland of complete anti-human introversion and detachment. Nothing is basically known about the band outside of the fact that it is formed by two obscure and recluse Virginia locals who get together cyclically to craft the meanest, most vile, putrid and desolate blackened cacophony they can materialize from their evil-corroded minds.
No touring or any kind of live activity and the complete reclusiveness of the duo have further enhanced the obscurity that shrouds the band, paving the way for a listening experience of their hideous sonic craft that is absolutely daunting as it howls from depths unknown.
“Coping With Loss” drops on August 19th. 2014 in digital format and as an extremely limited run of hand numbered cassette tapes bearing beautiful artwork crafted by Kevin Gan Yuen of Viraloptic (viraloptic.com) and Sutekh Hexen fame.
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