Arriving just days before the release of Eroica II: Christian Nihilism (out October 31), “I Wouldn’t Be Alive Without You” closes the trilogy of singles leading into Chino Amobi’s long-awaited second album. The track channels the record’s central tension between ruin and revelation. Accompanied by a new video directed by Chino Amobi and Evan Angelique Coleman.

https://youtu.be/9IN6i-TQgYY?si=ABYXRyWxD_xA57Uq
 
Now available for pre-order. Out October 31, 2025.
https://drownedbylocals.bandcamp.com/album/eroica-ii-christian-nihilism

Without escapism, a confrontation with one's own mirror. 
Where Two become Three, and three become One.
To be in the world of culture, but not of the world of culture, requires a great act of magnanimity, courage, and conviction. 
This single and its respective video is a renunciation, in the nihilist sense, 
of Baal materialism and idolic desire for external validation, 
while simultaneously grounding oneself at the center of the storm and chaos, just as Christ did and continues to do.
Loving yourself and loving others.
True identity and freedom comes to revelation and fulfillment within the deserted and impoverished ruins of one's own soul. 
For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than
for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God - Matthew 19:24

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Chino Amobi’s forthcoming album, Eroica II: Christian Nihilism (out 31 October via Drowned By Locals), takes its title from what he calls “the idea that while joy and contentment in God might be ideal, they might never be experienced on this side of eternity.” The record inhabits that paradox through folky drones, glacial ambient, spectral trap, and the hushed echoes of sacred traditions. If Paradiso was a burning world in flux, Eroica II is its haunted aftermath.

Born in Alabama to Nigerian parents and raised in Virginia, Amobi is a musician, painter, and writer whose work has been shown internationally, including at MoMA PS1, ICA London, and Palais de Tokyo. He co-founded the influential collective NON Worldwide and is represented by Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York, Robby Fitzpatrick Gallery in Paris, and Von Ammon Co. in Washington, D.C.

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300-copy edition with printed inner sleeve (lyrics on one side) 
Cover art photography by Tim Saccenti ©, designed by Giovanni Murolo 
Produced and performed by Chino Amobi, with select tracks produced by Brodinski 
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Pre-order your DL/LP copy today.

Eroica II: Christian Nihilism

Chino Amobi - I Wouldn't Be Alive Without You

Wisdon Tooth Dub

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By Joonas Siren aka Forces:

"In June 2024 I was in the midst of making a new live set for an upcoming concert. Instead of making new tracks, I decided to use archival recordings and experiments from the past 20-22 years that I have stored in six old external hard drives. I wrote a SuperCollider algorithm to select audio randomly from a massive folder, where all the archived audio was copied. The recordings range from early ‘00 Board of Canada inspired electronica, to analog noise/drone recordings around ‘06-09, to ‘11 modular synth improvisations, to all the way forward to unused SuperCollider experiments of recent years.

Using the algorithm was uncanny. I encountered a lot of sounds that I have no memory of ever making. This felt like unearthing deep, hidden sediments of myself.

What do these different layers reveal? Much has changed during these years of music making, personally and historically. The early recordings have a sense of melancholy and longing that I can’t quite access anymore. Still they are distantly familiar. During those years, my gaze was turned inwards to personal struggles and a sense of sadness that I wanted to reflect with my music. Nowadays, I want to focus on more general discourses instead of personal ones.

After the concert, I used the SuperCollider algorithm again to make this album. All the tracks have been chosen by it. The algorithm also provides some additional manipulation like sudden jump-cuts and fx’s while recording. Only some fade-outs and mastering have been edited
afterwards.

I hope that the serendipitous nature of the album reveals something hidden, perhaps interesting, beautiful or meaningful, among the shifting aural sediments of different temporalities."

Full project releases July 18, 2025

Artwork by Ronja-Elina Kappl
Cassette Design by Manu-Sophie Linder
Produced, written, mixed by Joonas Siren
Mastering by Ioannis Nafpliotis

Cassette / Digital

Forces - Catastrophism

Portamento: Hermeto Campeão!

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@lvzr_tk @markallensoul @island-of-angels new season of "island of angels" starts with very special guest mix by dark somatic researcher and sonic incident practitioner Lovozero for the first 31 minutes, afterwards Mark Allen Soul as usual. Lovozero (0-31)

Frederik Valentin & Loke Rahbek - Real Music
Pascal Comelade - Approximative but fair
Mana - the end and the way
ccontrary - Gasp
Hard Fantasy - Trifex
Klein - storm
UNCIA - Voluntas
16:9 ratio - I don't go to lakes, I go to The Pond
Stine Janvin Motland - Labouring 
Hedo Hydr8 — Adult Sorrow
Şüräle - Unreleased
Lovozero - Unreleased

Mark Allen Soul (31-60)

Gigi Masin - Clouds
Fatshaudi - Raindrop in my eyes
Composite Layers - Return Sailing
Josephine Moriko, innerinnerlife - Emociones
Mike Midnight - Smiling in Slow Motion
s1obhan - soul searching
Bino’s Bin - Deep Blue 1
??? - night docks, near the beacon
Justin Bieber - 405
Justin Bieber - Eye Candy
Smerz - Dreams

island of angels ep07 — Lovozero & Mark Allen Soul

From 'Dust Particles In The Sun', out October 17th. 
@aircode

Is it really necessary? If you inventorise your interiority, do you conclude that it is truly needed? Does it enrich your life? Does it advance you? Does it bring you in touch with something higher or perhaps more fundamental, pre-verbal, primal, real? Does it bring you to the dirt, the mineralised mulch from whence life springs, from which perhaps the first doddering molecule of our ancestry formed? Yes? It's aircode's 'No Need To Know', premiered by Madjestic Kasual then, presumably, is it not? It is? It is. Proceed. It's necessary.

aircode - No Need To Know [MK PREMIERE]

Anthill 7

Intergalactic Federation

An instrumental soundtrack to a movie I have not seen in decades, because I've wanted to use a certain sample since the 90s. I won't spoil the movie for you, but, you should probably eat a gummy and watch it some time.

Gabe

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