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Cassette + Digital Album
This limited edition Opaque Yellow cassette run of the GRIDFAILURE/S.C.R.A.M. split features altered and additional artwork/photography on a four-panel J-card, and is limited to only 50 copies, available on Pranjal Tiwari of S.C.R.A.M.'s new cassette label, Tumbril's Wedge.
Includes unlimited streaming of GRIDFAILURE / S.C.R.A.M. split EP
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
All circuits are flooded
The backup derailed
The entire system,overrun
Every safeguard has failed
With the grid in shambles
Chaos runs amok
Residents take matters into their own hands
The system is fucked
This systemwide anomaly
A complete catastrophe
This is just what we needed
An excuse to set this hatred free
Short breaths, with every step
Ground rushes up, can’t gauge my depth
Can’t fall down, not like those other times
Barely made it through those shattered paradigms
If I fall again, this time I won’t stand
Clenched fists for balance, trying to understand
Why have I devolved? How did it end up this way?
The only escape I foresee is to end my days
Easy to break yet hard to fix
No gods exist or will save you, and no crucifix
There are no special dead, we all rot the same
I’m the only one here, so there’s no one else to blame
I wake up this way
It stays this way all day
Gut instinct says
It’s going to stay
I will stay around for now
No clue exactly how
I’ll make it all work
I’ll fail somehow
The split EP from New York-based GRIDFAILURE and California-based S.C.R.A.M.
The S.C.R.A.M. portion of this split is a journey from the exterior to the interior, based around the event of a catastrophic nuclear reactor meltdown. It starts with a hurried trek through the safety of the outer perimeter, continues through the concrete shroud around a burning reactor, amid the groans of a heaving pressure vessel and cascading chain reactions. The final track, “The Loneliness Of Cesium 137,” takes us right to the elemental level, to the creation of a new isotope. That track, and the split, ends with a primal roar - the cataclysmic scream of birth, and the flailing restlessness of something unseen, a consciousness convulsing beyond the barrier of the material, its lonely, lashing spirit constrained by atomic structure and bellowing to be free. Tiwari supplies and handles vocals, sequencer, synthesizers, guitars, live drums, and field recordings, heavily shaped with a bizarre and unique “noise box” built by Ash from Ormus Electronics, with additional vocals provided by Joelle Garson.
GRIDFAILURE’s four new songs on the split burst from between the tense atmospheres of the S.C.R.A.M. tracks, offsetting the tension with a barrage of explosive post-industrial, apocalyptic annihilation. Created within a matrix of intense pedalboard arrangements and effects, reverberating, lo-fi percussion is shrouded in a phosphorus fog of bass, guitars, synth, field recordings, and more, with a vortex of multiple vocal tracks piercing through with confrontational dissolution. Lyrically fueled by societal disintegration, environmental collapse, and existential mental crises, once again, GRIDFAILURE evades accessibility and embraces techniques to deliver the utmost discomforting and visceral listening experience possible.
GRIDFAILURE is the unpredictable and confrontational audiovisual project David Brenner, yielding dense, tension-filled output, with elements of dark ambient and dark hardcore, infused with jazz, world music, folk, harsh noise, electronica, punk, and more. Operating solo or with a cast of collaborators on record and on stage since its 2016 inception, the project has amassed dozens of independent releases, including collaborations with Mac Gollehon, Rack, Megalophobe, Walking Bombs, Christian Molenaar, and others, and splits with Chrome Waves, Never Presence Forever, and others preceding the split with S.C.R.A.M.. While GRIDFAILURE regularly releases material independently and through Nefarious Industries, the project is confirmed to release new records through Anti-Corporate Music as well as Today Is The Day founder Steve Austin’s relaunched SuperNova Records in the months ahead.
S.C.R.A.M. (Safety Control Rod Axe Man) is the solo project of Oakland, California-based musician Pranjal Tiwari. Known for his work with the long-running cult doom metal band Cardinal Wyrm, with this project, Tiwari utilizes this project to create cinematic, experimental, ambient/electronic and heavily instrumental passages. Utilizing tension and negative space to create immersive auras, he has released an EP (Sellafield Mox) and a full-length (America, The Ritual) as S.C.R.A.M. prior to this split with GRIDFAILURE. Additional new material is in the works for the months ahead.
credits
released August 13, 2021
The GRIDFAILURE material was written, performed, recorded, and mixed by David Brenner at The Compound in Valley Cottage, New York, and the S.C.R.A.M. material written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Pranjal Tiwari at The Sarcophagus in Oakland, California, and all tracks were mastered by Dan Emery at Black Matter Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee (Kool Keith, Many Blessings, Thetan). The cover was created with photography by Tiwari and Brenner, manipulated/designed by Brenner.
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