White cassette tape with 4-panel J-card featuring artwork by David Brenner. Edition of 50.
A1 Stoking the Embers
A2 No Defensive Wounds To Be Found
A3 Outlander Harvesters
A4 Sabotaging Panacea
A5 Invocate Collapse
A6 Rapid Intensification
A7 Proven Finite
B1 Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II: As Resources Are Depleted, So Are Morals
B2 Red Tide Baptism
B3 Farmer Suicide
B4 Autophagia Demonstration
B5 Wish To Disinvent
B6 Debris Signature
B7 Beyond Containment
B8 Irma
Marauding factions, societal collapse, revenge, organ harvesting, nuclear warfare, widespread contagion, unfathomable storms, cannibalism, and other grim topics poetically permeate this intense album which fully envisions the extreme, anti-genre, experimental vision more than any prior release from GRIDFAILURE to date. Its fifteen movements consume a mammoth hour-and-fourteen minutes.
Containing material spanning GRIDFAILURE’s entire four-year lifespan, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II infuses many styles of analog and digital percussion, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, ukulele, many types of keys and synth, accordion, trumpet, theremin, powerelectronics, harmonica, didgeridoo, field recordings, and more, some of which were recorded outdoors including in extreme weather events.
Hostile soloist David Brenner created the entire album, performed multiple instruments on all tracks including some fully solo. However, a wide array of guest contributors and collaborators offer their talented and varied arts to the album’s diverse flow. The album features musicians from the outfit’s New York City home region, and many others from California, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Colorado, Indiana, Arkansas, and China, including contributions from GRIDFAILURE’s primary live members – Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe), Greg Meisenberg (Maid Myriad, A Fucking Elephant), and Richard Muller (The Third Kind, Vise Massacre, Great Planes) – as well as Mac Gollehon (David Bowie, Miles Davis, Onyx, Madonna, Blondie), Liz Ciavarella-Brenner, Faith Ciavarella, Pete Tsakiris, Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Fyrhtu), Nathan Verrill (Fyrhtu, Cardinal Wyrm), No One (T.O.M.B., Dreadlords), Clayton Batholomew (Mountaineer, ex-Secrets Of The Sky), Dave Small (Cutworm), Christian Molenaar (Those Darn Gnomes), Lane Oliver (Feel Happiness, Yatsu), Christopher Henry (Fuck Your Birthday, Humans Etcetera), Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves), Matt Bacon, Andrew Hess, and Chuck Schaaf (Deadbird, ex-Rwake) and his family Star, Izzie, and Mason Schaaf.
Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery II was performed/arranged, recorded, and mixed by David Brenner at The Compound in Valley Cottage, New York, who also drew the cover art, after which it was mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee (Kool Keith, Benjamin Tod, Krieg, Thetan).
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