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CSR 347CD
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RELEASE DATE: 4/11/2025
The fifth album from industrial/esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth is a concept album based on the writings of professor Ted Kaczynski AKA the Unabomber. It is not about his terror campaign against the industrial society and the rise of technology -- but his manifesto "Industrial Society And Its Future" and in particular the elements of "The Power Process." With The Harmony Knife, Colossloth is cutting through to the bone and sinew of Man's chronic, species-specific dissatisfaction, and the causes thereof. He is laying bare humankind's inability to solve its own, self-created problems, to meet its basic needs, and to achieve even those goals clearly within its reach. What is the fundamental nature of the human condition? Is it one of misery and failure in the face of blissful possibility? Is it the contrary unwillingness to accept that we can become fully realized and contented beings through the success of actualized, idiosyncratic, and often basic goals? In defining and describing The Power Process, the twisted mind of Ted Kaczynski saw mankind's primal need to struggle for a goal, however small, as necessary for a meaningful life. Indeed, without this elemental piece of the evolutionary struggle, he saw terminal atrophy as the inevitable result. With The Harmony Knife, Colossloth seizes these ideas and sonically extrapolates the implications of humankind's failure to satisfy even its most rudimentary needs. He creates an auditory landscape examining humanity's repeated inability to focus its efforts on fundamental goals to ensure even a measure of happiness or contentment. Humanity's inability to live rather than merely exist.
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CSR 315CD
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Rhythmic industrial noise -- grinding and churning, drenched in crushing doom-laden guitars -- drapes the sacrificial bones of the new album from esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth. Building on this trademark sound, pushing and striving for reinvention and renewal, Colossloth has also utilized live instrumentation and ethereal vocals, and black metal blast beats on certain tracks for the first time to enhance the intent behind the music. Digitally-driven soundtracks for transfigured cities and myths born in the wilderness of Albion. Digipak.
"An unknown voice deep within the landscape reveals a clandestine location. A place of arcane mechanics, a cathedral of divine engines suspended in primal matter. Turbulence forms amidst amorphous strata, the polarized elements stretch out and then return once more to a singular form, gauging an ecology of discordant time down newly formed vertices. Crystallized dreams spin wild atmospheres into the horizons and fill the localized spaces with the remnants of passive machinations and distant mutterings, the devices allocating into their framework the offerings set forth."
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CSR 277CD
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When these tracks were recorded in spring-summer 2019, when the prophetic album title was set in stone, who knew what turbulence the world would undergo, what social isolation we would endure. To face a plague alone... This release marks a change in the sound of Colossloth. Whilst still traversing landscapes sheathed in cacophony, the layers when stripped back reveal a new sound being forged and emerging forth from the fractured sonics and sepulchral bass rumblings one has come to expect from past releases. Not so much a change of direction, but a bold move forward towards the cinematic, an instinctual transcendence born from annulled ancient currents stirred up once more into frenzied and chthonic ritual. This new frontier in the Colossloth sound meets the familiar sense of pastoral disquiet and gleefully invigorating spatial havoc utilizing a canon of sound that's normally reserved for taking part in the creation of dimensions. Music for transportation and immersion, taming the wilderness of the ravaged psyche and sailing forth upon its turbulent ocean whereof whilst also a meditation on the configurations of sound and its transmutations wherein.
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CSR 235CD
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On his second album, Colossloth continues his esoteric sonic crusade of volatile yet absorbing audio textures. Cold electronica, with swathes of rhythmic power noise and industrial harshness, tempered with penetrating song structures. Eleven tracks of austere, reflective, and exploratory electronics for journeys made into the hidden realms underpinning daily life, spanning the bridge between gnosis and praxis. The dissonance of opposites falling into elemental synthesis with a sound and approach influenced from the past, present, and future letting you remain anachronistic yet be temporal voyeurs in the abyss. Comes in digipak.
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From the wild hedgerows and deep dark rivers of the English Midlands, Leicestershire's Colossloth makes psychogeographic maladies and invocations to warm the heart of the discerning and intrepid psychonaut. Phonic seeds planted in blackened soil fertilized by visceral imagination. A fugitive ambience for those seeking solace in the unexpected, alternating between the brooding and abrasive and the transcendental and enchanted. Having supported the likes of Tim Hecker and Wrangler, Colossloth's music nods to a multitude of genres, from industrial to ethnic to caustic electronica. Its spirit can be found crucified between the anode and cathode of occult circuitry, transmitting across modern England whispered messages from the lips of the old gods of Albion. Colossloth are one of the UK's hardest-working live acts, clocking an amazing 82 shows in the 20 months preceding this release.
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"Hailing from the middle of England, Colossloth represent the best of the new wave of British drone. This, their debut release on vinyl, the band wished to start with an album of ambient drone swirled in a cascade of darkness. They have been playing some festivals in the UK where they have built a large fan base, and now that base is crossing borders at a stealthy pace. This is the first release on Noiseville's doom/drone side label Doom-Mantra and was released in an edition of only 300 copies with a silk screened cover. Most of the pressing is already sold, and the rest will not have much longer to go before they find happy homes, twisting people's brains in a thankfully joyous goo."
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