BODY PROPHECY LP - B1 NEON GREEN / SILVER / BLACK MERGE
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
With the release of Black Magnet’s debut album ‘Hallucination Scene’ in 2020 a new Industrial Metal power emerged from the unlikely landscape of Oklahoma City. After anxiously waiting out the pandemic Black Magnet returned to the road in late 2021 and now drop ‘Body Prophecy’ the second full length burst of machine driven mayhem and electronic deviance.
On ‘Body Prophecy’ mastermind James Hammontree welds the frenetic vitality of post-punk and metal energy with driving synthetic club beats, factory force physicality and alluringly stark melodic pulses. Tracks like ‘Floating in Nothing’ and ‘Violent Mechanix’ feature both intensely catchy hooks and hammering brutal noise. ‘Sold Me Sad’ is a quietly deranged lullaby that takes an atmospheric turn. The throbbing drug-addled lurch of the Manson / Reznor-esque ‘Incubate’ is, at the end of the album, treated to a completely re-imagined and extended club style remix by scene legend Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal, etc).
For all its harsher, scraping atmospheres and pummeling aggression ‘Body Prophecy’ always remains an eminently tight, memorable album molded for the stage and constructed to keep bodies in motion and listeners transfixed.
Released July 29, 2022 on 20 Buck Spin
Engineered and mixed by Sanford Parker at Hypercube Studios, Chicago IL
Mastered by Collin Jordan at the Boiler Room, Chicago, IL
Artwork by Jesse Draxler
Photos by Johnny Bohlen
Product photos by Julius Aguilar
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lyrics
See me, teach me, leave me
Sift my body down
Ashes in the same place
Embers floating all around
Mind-spirit-interface
They keep taking time, though I’ve got none to give
Life is just a parasite that’s eating within
Saw off my arms
Saw off my legs
Tear out my teeth
Saw off my head
Cowards all bend the knee
In a spectral flashback
Carnal abilities
Complete the zodiac
Crawling on my hands with black blood on my face
A lover is just a lamb I am leading astray
Saw off my arms
Saw off my legs
Tear out my teeth
Saw off my head
Open my body
Inside nothing is pure
Open my skull
What’s inside is yours
One of the most unsettling albums i have heard in a while. Chat Pile creates a grotesque blend of noise and groove that brings me back everytime. scarface6204
It really gives me the headache, but once in a while, in small doses, I reckon its cathartic effects. Although, in all honesty, I don't see me buying another album by this artist. Bertrand Marchal
Dark electronic music gets warped and clobbered on the latest from Author & Punisher. Brooding, cutting, and claustrophobic. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 18, 2017
This is the type of album you listen to while cowering in the corner in the fetal position with tears streaming down your face. End Position is abrasive, horrifying, nihilistic, and brilliant. nnpoc.