White cassette tape with 6-panel J-card featuring artwork by David Brenner. Edition of 50.
A1 Subdividing The Survivors
A2 Extermination Level Eventuality
A3 Hybrid Warfare In Defense Of One’s Habitat
A4 Anthropophagiae Nationis
A5 Drunk On The Blood Of My Neighbor
A6 Vestiges
A7 Ration Distribution/Processed For Storage
A8 Communal Taxidermy
B1 This Was More Than Just Killing… It Was Art
B2 Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III: Acquiring A Taste
B3 Maria
B4 Necrotizing Fasciitis
B5 End In Sight
B6 Species Deconstructivist
B7 Transmissions Cease
The apex of LoHud/NYC-based GRIDFAILURE‘s unraveling five-album concept series, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III continues to follow the death of our planet’s ecosystem and humanity’s renaissance of self-mutilation with the project’s most ambitious work to date.
Depicted within this third chapter is the mass-enslavement of populations, rampant cannibalization, prevalent desire and addiction to homicide, and more, amidst ever-worsening extreme weather disasters, with humanity losing the war we’ve waged on our own planet. With over eighty minutes of GRIDFAILURE’s demoralizing and confrontational battery, the record expands the project’s genre-bending experimentalism, with bizarre and theatrical excursions into jazz, classical, techno, folk, black metal, Americana, and more infused into its merciless post-industrial foundation. As with the rest of the series, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III infuses material spanning GRIDFAILURE‘s existence, with recordings dating back to 2015, and elements recorded outdoors during extreme weather events.
Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III was written by GRIDFAILURE creator David Brenner who performs primary vocals and an array of guitars, bass, drums/percussion, keys, synth, violin, theremin, field recordings, and other instruments/tactics, while orchestrating the project’s most extensive cast of collaborators to date. The album features additional lyrics, vocals, and guitar from Steve Austin (Today Is The Day) on five of its fifteen songs, as well as performances by Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore), Mac Gollehon (live/session for David Bowie, Duran Duran, Onyx, Blondie, Héctor Lavoe), Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe, GRIDFAILURE-live), Richard Muller (Giant Spider, GRIDFAILURE-live), Greg Meisenberg (A Fucking Elephant, Dead Register, GRIDFAILURE-live), Lane Oliver (Yatsu, Diminishing), Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves, Deeper Graves), Christopher Henry (Fuck Your Birthday, Humans Etcetera), Graham Scala (US Christmas, Interstitia, Bleach Everything), Dan Emery (Thetan), BJ Allen (Zero Trust), Clayton Bartholomew (Mountaineer), No One (T.O.M.B., Dreadlords), Morgan Evans (Walking Bombs), Hazard (Hasard, Les Chants Du Hasard), Pranjal Tiwari (Cardinal Wyrm, S.C.R.A.M.), Jared Stimpfl (Secret Cutter, Orphan Donor), Natan Vee (Cardinal Wyrm, Fyrhtu), Mike Giuliano (Big Happy), Josh Thorne (Cadaver Industry), Alex Haber, Rosa Henriquez, Pete Tsakiris, Isaac Campbell, and Rob Levitt.
With some of the guest contributions recorded by the respective artists, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III was performed, recorded, arranged, and mixed by David Brenner at The Compound in Valley Cottage, New York. The album was mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee (Kool Keith, Steve Von Till, Krieg), and completed with cover art, design, photography, and videos by Brenner.
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