Ignore
all false representations of truly apocalyptic and fully predatory
soundtrack-style audio behind, and succumb to the engulfing For Mass Consumption, the second full-length documentation of the recorded dementia of Iron Lung's Jon Kortland's solo outing, PIG HEART TRANSPLANT.
For Mass Consumption dispatches
a distressing twenty-eight tracks of no-wave industrial mayhem in under
twenty-one minutes, each track approximately forty-four seconds long
and named with a four-letter word, structured in a perfectly palatable
way for optimum group adoption and mindless adherence to common purpose.
One might recognize the pulverizing brutality of early Swans, the
pulsing throb of Brighter Death Now and IRM or even Robert McNaugton's
soundtrack work for Henry: Portrait Of Serial Killer. This is 1984.
For Mass Consumption is appropriately living up to its name, now available for streaming via 20 Buck Spin RIGHT HERE.
For Mass Consumption
is out now in North America on compact disc and digital manipulations
via 20 Buck Spin, and Europe will fall to the same fate this Monday
September 8th. Order the digital HERE and the CD HERE. Vinyl and cassette editions will follow via Iron Lung Records shortly after.
While Kortland's main focus is splitting duties in surgical powerviolence duo, Iron Lung, with PIG HEART TRANSPLANT
the artist explores an entirely different dimension of musical terror.
Here he delivers both a vicious beating and violent outcome, however the
operating methodology is an entirely different animal; slow, churning,
industrial, electronic, painfully percussive, a bureaucratic nightmare
of State Power with gears grinding the individual into a hallow shell,
perfectly molded into one of Them. Electronic manipulation, no-wave
guitar noise, abrasive hammering and eerie synthetic ambiance imbue the
listener with the seedy malaise of manipulation on a societal scale.
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