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CSR 278CD
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Buried Steel is the fourth album from Birmingham industrial metal duo Khost, following the 2017 release Governance (CSR 237CD, 2017). Themes and sonics of Buried Steel range from granite and impassive to dream-like and somnambulistic, in keeping with the promise -- and threat -- of the title, dwelling on slow, infallible ruination: a gravitational downthrust upon misshapen monuments and structures which are mangled, overgrown and increasingly forgotten. A monochrome landscape where nature reclaims and redefines us as time passes. Recording of the album was marred with events such as an electrical fire which damaged some equipment. As a result, a number of tracks on the album had to be pieced together from damaged analogue elements such as reel-to-reel (Khost reel-to-reel RIP). From this point, the dynamic of some of the songs was altered, shifting their eventual outcome, particularly the tone of ambient work on Buried Steel. Guests include Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire, Wrangler), Syan, Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Manuel Liebeskind, Daniel Buess (16-17, MIR), and Stephen Ah Burroughs (Tunnels Of Ah, ex-Head Of David). Six-panel digipak with artwork contributions from Talitha Bell, Syan, and Craig Earp. Includes a remix by Mothboy.
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Governance continues Khost's immersion in themes of detachment and dissonance. It ruminates upon the exertion of wills that are not your own, and upon the ways to detect and trace the outlines of the presence(s) that may exert these wills upon you, day-by-day. Governance was written over the course of the 2016/17 winter, during times of unease and sickness for the band, including one near-death experience. The resulting album is a hinterland of low resolution transmissions interspersed with broad concrete columns of distortion that loom suddenly from the dim landscape. Governance is like driving at night with your spirituality asleep at the wheel. With demoralizing vocal terror, hypnotic nightmare-scapes, frost-encrusted tones, and horrifying rhythms, Khost's Governance devastates the listener with nearly fifty minutes of entrancing, yet hazardous tectonic doom-laced revulsion. Features guest appearances from Eugene Robinson (Oxbow) and Jo Quail, and includes a remix of the track "Coven" by Tel Aviv artist Adrian Stainburner. Khost is comprised of Andy Swan (Final, Iroha) and Damian Bennett (Carthage, Techno Animal, Deathless). Comes in a six-panel digipak.
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CSR 215CD
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Needles Into the Ground contains material by Khost which has been elementally transformed by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh. The original Khost material - taken from their second album Corrosive Shroud (CSR 211CD) - is dense, multifaceted and purgatorial with a straightforward "stems" based approach. Broadrick has extracted what he needed for his work whilst in pure Godflesh mode. The outcome is claustrophobic and frenetic, the experience akin to being in the proximity of a large, unstable machine on the verge of meltdown. In addition to these pieces, Khost has added a new track. Khost on the album: "If it was a painting it would be about a kilometer wide held up by old, thick metal supports and wires that creak in wind, in parts abstract, in parts quite hard to decipher, and the materials would be oil like and seeping, never quite drying out."
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LP version. Includes download code. Needles Into the Ground contains material by Khost which has been elementally transformed by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh. The original Khost material - taken from their second album Corrosive Shroud (CSR 211CD) - is dense, multifaceted and purgatorial with a straightforward "stems" based approach. Broadrick has extracted what he needed for his work whilst in pure Godflesh mode. The outcome is claustrophobic and frenetic, the experience akin to being in the proximity of a large, unstable machine on the verge of meltdown. In addition to these pieces, Khost has added a new track. Khost on the album: "If it was a painting it would be about a kilometer wide held up by old, thick metal supports and wires that creak in wind, in parts abstract, in parts quite hard to decipher, and the materials would be oil like and seeping, never quite drying out."
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CSR 211CD
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Corrosive Shroud is the second album from Birmingham band Khost, following the 2014 debut Copper Lock Hell (CSR 202CD). The album has a singular theme: the hand-me-down concrete relics in which we necessarily live and from which we draw perceptions. The music is the sound of lightless blocks, oxygen-starved sheds, and apparitions, using stark and unrefined found sounds stacked against Khost's massively detuned guitars. The album features Eugene Robinson of Oxbow and Syan, who add their stories to the narrative, along with personnel Jo Quail, Daniel Buess, and Gustave Savy and a remix from Tel Aviv-based Hostage.
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CSR 202CD
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With their debut Copper Lock Hell, Birmingham-based duo Khost provide an intense wall of sound. Drop-tuned, monolithic structures of super-heavy chords, interspersed with chilling, pagan soundscapes made for worship at the altar of extreme sludge-industrial-doom. Found sounds, glitches, esoteric/gnostic ideas form the backbone of this hefty release. The whole experience is tense and unsettling, and is a solid primer for their live shows. Khost is Andy Swan (Iroha, Final, Atrocity Exhibition), who is joined on live shows by Damian Bennett (Carthage, Deathless). Guests: Tunnels Of Ah, Kevin Laska (Novatron, Transitional), Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Jo Quail (SonVer). Khost will appear with Godflesh on their UK tour in late 2014.
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