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In The Cold Night - Toronto 1983

Born To Die In The Gutter

Vi Coactus

⚠ WARNING


"In Carnation" may very well be one of the most unrelenting, unforgiving, and brutal works in the history of extreme music – if not the most.


This album is likely one of the harshest, most unrelenting works in the history of extreme music.

It is not merely heavy – it is a raw, suffocating, merciless descent into the essence of being. There is no reprieve, no moment to breathe, no illusions of comfort. Every track is a deeper incision into the human condition — or what we think that is. This is not an album for the faint of heart. It offers no catharsis. Only the scalpel. Only the mirror. Only flesh.



What does it mean to be human?

IN CARNATION is not just a concept album – it's a dissection of self.
The title “In carnation” – a wordplay on “incarnation” (embodiment) and the Latin phrase in carne (“in the flesh”).

But this is no divine transformation. No mythic rebirth.
This is embodiment as fact. As prison. As transient mass of nerves, blood, memory and decay.

This album offers no conclusions. It poses a single, ever-echoing question:

“Are we more than flesh?”

Or is human identity just a cycle of growth, erosion, remembering and forgetting — wrapped in skin?

Each track explores a fragment of this process:
From the moment of first cellular split, through the descent into instinct and animality, to language as blade and belief as bile — all the way to the final, unbearable clarity:
There may be no “I” at all.
There may only be flesh that remembers. And then forgets again.

IN CARNATION is not a spiritual journey — it is a journey through tissue.
No light. Only echo. No meaning. Only matter.

And yet one question lingers like blood in the mouth:
If we are only flesh — who is asking the question?


Vocals: Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex, Raphaela Hartmann, Andy Green
Guitar: Andy Green, Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex
Synths, Programming & Drums Raphaela Hartmann
Bass: Thomas Kaiser
Raffaela Espinosa – Flamenco-Guitar
Noriko Mori – Koto & Taishōgoto & Shamisen

Concept & Lyrics: Sascha Häusler 

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