⚠ 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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Track 6 – Flesh Memory

Track 10 – Abgrund

Track 1 - In der ersten Zelle

Track 2 - Karnate Wunde

Track 3 - Ich bin das Tier

Track 9 – Der letzte Spiegel

Track 7 – Stigmata der Sprache

Track 5 – Blutbild

Track 4 - Sacred Filth

Track 8 – In Carnation

We are NeON dEVIL

Our sound is ritualistic, raw, poetic, and unsettling – a feverish hallucination of lust, madness, and damnation.

This is your first glimpse into our world:
Tracks that whisper like demons and echo like broken prayers.
Listen now – let yourself be seduced.

Yet beneath the surface of distortion and desire, much of what we create is deliberately satirical, infused with dark humor, and framed by a sharp lens of social and systemic critique.
Even in our most explicit expressions, we do not glorify violence or sexuality – rather, we expose and question the very ways they are distorted, repressed, or exploited by society.

We first came together around 2004, initially under a different project name. NeON dEVIL, as it exists today, began to take shape in 2009 with the release of our first official album. We are not bound to a fixed genre. While much of our work lives within the realm of extreme metal, we also draw heavily from other styles — trap, rap, classical music, 70’s psychedelic rock, avant-garde, and at times even pop or swing.
Our influences are vast because each of us comes from a different musical background, and it is essential to us that every member can fully express themselves and feel at home within this project.

NeON dEVIL is a nonprofit music project.
We do not create for profit — all earnings are used exclusively either to support charitable causes or to fund the creation of new music. No part of our income goes anywhere else. The art we make either helps those in need or fuels the fire for our next creation.

Featuring 

Vocals: Noriko Mori, Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex, Raphaela Hartmann, Andy Green

Guitar: Andy Green, Sascha Häusler, Lisa Lex

Piano: Sascha Häusler

Cello: Sascha Häusler, Ella Park, Anna Weiß

Violin: Tina Park

Bass: Thomas Kaiser

Percussion, Synths & Programming: Raphaela Hartmann

Concept & Lyrics: Sascha Häusler

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