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Shell Complex's Debut album "Aggravated Assault" released December 21st, 2012.

Recorded, Mix and Produced by Greg Pizzullo
Mastered by Bill Henderson @ Azimuth Studios
Album Art by Joseph Costentino 

Aggravated Assault

FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/pages/4-Past-Midnight/215468135159655
FROM THE ALBUM - GUILTY AS CHARGED

FUCK THEM ALL

DOG'S OF WAR (Exploited cover version)

this is an old sound ..recording is very lofi but still a cracking song

Little Sid - Taken from the album Punkology the collection 1989-2002

Nofx - bob

This Summer, the world will experience the vicious death metal/deathcore of London-based abusers, ACRANIA, as the trio releases their debut full-length via California’s Unique Leader Records.

The politically charged ACRANIA has spread their message through several independent recordings since their 2012 inception. Their debut split with Blue Waffle and “A Trophy of Corporate Disfigurement” single, both released in their first year as a band, followed by their The Beginning Of The End EP released last year have helped the band forge a devout fanbase of pit-seeking followers. Having already toured with various acts around Europe including Cerebral Bore and Warpath, and with upcoming shows booked alongside Thy Art Is Murder, Blood Red Throne and many more, ACRANIA will continue to devour their way through the scene and spread their message of unrelenting hostility through their blistering mix of brutality, slams and blastbeats.

Earlier this year, ACRANIA recorded their debut full-length, Totalitarian Dystopia, with Stu McKay at Studio 6 in London. Following a mixing/mastering job by Chris Foster and having artwork crafted by Par Olofsson, Totalitarian Dystopia boasts a thirty-six minute maelstrom of sonic devastation through ten new tales of pure intolerance for humankind’s downfalls. The record includes guest appearances from Tom Barber of Lorna Shore, Mendel of Aborted and Jamie Hanks of I Declare War, and promises to engulf an entire new legion of worldwide death fanatics upon its release on August 19th.

Totalitarian Dystopia Track Listing:
1. Hollow
2. Festering With Dishonesty
3. Totalitarian Dystopia
4. Servants Of Hypocrisy
5. Survival Sequence
6. A Gluttonous Abomination
7. Susceptible To Retinal Reprogrammability
8. Lobotomise, Dehumanise, Negate. [LDN]
9. Messiah Of Manipulation
10. Disillusion In A Discordant System

http://www.facebook.com/Acraniauk
http://www.uniqueleader.com
http://www.facebook.com/UniqueLeaderRecords
http://www.twitter.com/UniqueLeaderRec
http://www.youtube.com/uniqueleaderrecords

ACRANIA - "A Gluttonous Abomination"

Taken from the album "Blood Mantra"

Release:
EU: 26.09.2014
UK: 29.09.2014
NA: 30.09.2014

Nuclear Blast

DECAPITATED - The Blasphemous Psalm To The Dummy God Creation

This composition started with an email Deepak Gopalakrishnan (https://twitter.com/chuck_gopal) sent me 3 years ago with a noisy home recording of an intro riff to what he felt might make a good ambient/melodic metal song and he was kicked about collaborating to make one. 

Well, I kept him waiting for about 3 years, till this artwork by Blaft (https://twitter.com/blaftness/status/496147826695368704/photo/1) inspired me to make a doom metal arrangement of the sloka used to solemnize Hindu weddings. And Deepak's riff kicks it off

मान्गल्यम् तन्तुनानेन मम जीवन हेथुनां। 
Maangalyam Thanthunaanena mama jeevana hethunaam
कन्ठेः बध्नामि सुभगे संजीव शरदः शतम्॥
Kantehe badhnaami subhage sanjiva sharadashatham

"This is a sacred thread. This is essential for my long life. I tie this around your neck O maiden having many auspicious attributes. May you live happily for a hundred years(with me)."

Of course, all good intentions, except, most Indian weddings are arranged marriages where an unsuspecting girl is thrown into the forbidding depths of hell as her parents' life savings are wiped out to initiate a property transfer of her life, career and reproductive rights to the groom's family. 

The composition seeks to capture this impending sense of doom as she takes a blind step into this hall of nightmarish horrors that is known as the average Indian arranged marriage. 

Vocals, Guitars, Cello - played on real instruments
Bass & Drums - programmed on Logic Pro 
Intro riff - Deepak Gopalakrishnan (https://twitter.com/chuck_gopal)

Picture credits: Brian (https://flic.kr/p/e8XsQ)


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